Right now: Applying to jobs. Lots of copy and pasting.
I don't know if you're as concerned with cyber legacy as I am, but ever since my dad passed away, George and I have both taken precautions to give our passwords to a semi-neutral third party. We don't trust each other with our information -- as evidenced by her unwillingness to let me into her Google account to organize her Reader the other day -- but in the event of tragedy, there will be a big party where we read each other's everything. It'll be embarassing and hopefully some secrets will be unearthed, but mostly it'll just be easier than having to ask service providers to crack everything open. Almost ten years later and we're still having to deal with junk mail in my dad's name and doing paperwork to retrieve account information.
This article, Cyberspace When You're Dead, is a worthy read. I think the prudent thing to do is to have a last post ready for my blogs, my social media sites, my contacts list, all of that. Then whoever accesses my stuff can just hit "publish" and be done with it. I don't want my online stuff gone, I just don't want it incomplete either. Our friend who committed suicide a few months ago, his Facebook page is still up, and the profile photo is a skull crossed with lightning bolts. People still leave him comments on his wall, which I find to be incredibly weird. How long will his profile stay up? Forever?
Today is my dad's birthday, he would have been sixty five. Happy new year.
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