Spring cleaning: Heidegger, Windows and contact lists

Not Microsoft Windows, only the much simpler, more reliable windows of the old house get a spring cleaning.

Cleaning up contact lists of the many email accounts that gather dust on servers may seem like a good idea but is not all that important. To TheEditor, this leftover feature from the days of the Rolodex is kind of useless outside of a work environment anyway. I don't use email contact lists, so there is not much to steal there either. 

Computers are better at remembering, sadly, and it is interesting to see what the box remembers. As a matter of fact, TheEditor has embarked on an art program that involves shaping its [TheEditor is gender neutral] virtual footprint in different ways.

Explaining it is not all that easy. Remember the gifted painter one bench over in highschool? When asked to explain a couple of paintings, the answer was "I'd be a writer if wanted to use words".

So, in the virtual art space, TheEditor feels much the same way. One final attempt at an explanation is "message in a bottle". The contents are known only to the person writing the message and may never seen by another human.

There may not even be a message in that bottle.

Even if there is no message, the content is still more meaningful than most of the musings of German philosopher Martin Heidegger.

Now, go do the spring cleaning but if you are in the southern hemisphere, sit back and relax.