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Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? Well, quite apart from that, Charles Petzold has this astute observation:

I often wish that email had never been invented, but there's just no way I can get rid of it. So, day after day, several times a day, I dutifully delete 99% of the emails I receive, and when I'm not able to get at my email for a few days, I'll leave the machine at home running to pick it up every 10 minutes so I don't overflow some capacity somewhere, and just the other day I caught myself wondering who will clean out my Inbox after I'm dead.

This is a real problem. OK, it'll take a little while for Gmail to fill up, but on machines around the world accounts sit waiting for the dead, messages sit, and, in some cases, the occasional “anyone seen $nick recently?” is heard on an IRC channel. Our digital lives carry on without us ….

Posted at 2005-10-31 07:19:32 by Richard • Link to Morbid.com
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