It's December

We've reached the time of year where time itself seems to speed up (in that we have too much to do) and slow down (in that the end of the year can't come fast enough.)

I'm rationalising my engagement with digital services - this is the first time I've cancelled Netflix because the shows we're watching are on Disney+ (A Murder at the End of the World) and Apple TV+ (Slow Horses and For All Mankind.) Mind you, I guess we'll have to revive Netflix at some stage before shows that are recommended to us disappear forever. Such is the ephemerality of streaming.

I have a lot of discs (dvds and increasingly blu-rays) so I'll be able to get through the creative drought next year caused by this year's writer and actor strikes but I've had to find a new cataloguing program as DVDPedia (and the other Pedias produced by Bruni Software) are no longer being supported. So I went with Collectorz, which I used years ago on my windows computer and now stores all the information on the cloud. It has a more useful iPhone app than DVDPedia but lacks the polish.

I've taken advantage of the Black Friday sales to renew some software - I have to revive our old website and work on my own. The overall objective is to ween myself off established social media and manage my own net presence instead of outsourcing it to billionaires.