It’s early to be wishing people a Happy Christmas, but Winter is undoubtedly here. More to the point, I’m at the brink of a technical black hole, about to step in, and might not re-emerge before Spring. As an added complication, I am going as close as I can get to 100% ecard this year, so will be sending out ecards prior to the Big Turn Off of my current computers.
I’ve been through this sort of major technical upheaval before, both at home and at work. Although the promise that the systems might be down “briefly” is accurate more often than not these days, I’m not taking chances. Certainly, the big outfits — large well-staffed IT departments or huge tech companies — are pretty efficient at upgrades.
The thing is that I am neither a huge tech company nor a well-staffed IT department. I’m embarking on this upgrade (both hardware and software) on my own and might have to call on alternative definitions to achieve brevity. I’m hoping to be offline only “briefly”, and back online well before Spring, but after all, in the history of the planet where the gap between the last stegosaurus and the first tyrannosaurus is longer than the gap between the last tyrannosaurus and the first iPad, “before next Spring” is a very brief period, less than the blink of an eye.
