stonyarc
12-27-2007, 09:18 PM
Typically, this is a slow week around the office as many folks are off for the Holidays and spending time with the Family. After a few days off from work, I have returned to the office to kick off my annual post-Christmas, pre-New Years ritual. It consists of a few things which revolve, for the most part, around tidying up and preparing for the new calendar year:
Backing up my office computers (both my Dell (http://www.dell.com/) and Mac (http://www.apple.com/mac/)) and preparing them for a reformat and reinstall of their OS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_System)’s to start the year off fresh
This year I am installing Leopard (http://www.apple.com/macosx/) on my office Mac, so let’s see how that goes. (I think I need more memory for it though.)
My Windows machine will see Vista Enterprise (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/default.mspx) and Office 2007 (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx?ofcresset=1) (no surprise there huh?)
Burning all the 2007 shows (http://www.majornelson.com/archive/tags/Blogcast+_2800_MP3_2900_/default.aspx) onto DVD for back up
Cleaning my office (mental note: way to many boxes and cables)
A random trip to Fry’s (http://maps.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point.rxhx9f4tgttp_Fry's___&encType=1) with e (http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?GamerTag=e) to take advantage of any post Holiday bargains
Organizing my games library which became slightly disorganized over the year
Taking all of the holiday cards I got this year and copying names and addresses to my contacts file
Preparing for CES (http://www.cesweb.org/) as best I can, as there is no good way I have found to prepare for it…it just happens
This year, I think I am going to build a WHS (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx) so I can start backing up my home media collectionDo you have any yearly customs that you perform between the Holidays to prepare yourself for the New Year?
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Backing up my office computers (both my Dell (http://www.dell.com/) and Mac (http://www.apple.com/mac/)) and preparing them for a reformat and reinstall of their OS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_System)’s to start the year off fresh
This year I am installing Leopard (http://www.apple.com/macosx/) on my office Mac, so let’s see how that goes. (I think I need more memory for it though.)
My Windows machine will see Vista Enterprise (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/default.mspx) and Office 2007 (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx?ofcresset=1) (no surprise there huh?)
Burning all the 2007 shows (http://www.majornelson.com/archive/tags/Blogcast+_2800_MP3_2900_/default.aspx) onto DVD for back up
Cleaning my office (mental note: way to many boxes and cables)
A random trip to Fry’s (http://maps.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point.rxhx9f4tgttp_Fry's___&encType=1) with e (http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?GamerTag=e) to take advantage of any post Holiday bargains
Organizing my games library which became slightly disorganized over the year
Taking all of the holiday cards I got this year and copying names and addresses to my contacts file
Preparing for CES (http://www.cesweb.org/) as best I can, as there is no good way I have found to prepare for it…it just happens
This year, I think I am going to build a WHS (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx) so I can start backing up my home media collectionDo you have any yearly customs that you perform between the Holidays to prepare yourself for the New Year?
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