Hello all,

It’s been a nice couple of days to cap the year off here. It is supposed to be close to 70 today! I feel like I’m at the top of a slide with two paths through winter…one path leads to a winter like last year: warm, no snow to speak of, and a vague uneasy anticipation of a huge dump of snow that never happened. The other path leads to an old-time winter with cold, snow, and hot chocolate.

The seemingly implacable and eminently predictable march of seasons of my youth has certainly stumbled, and even if things do return to the way they were, I think the only consistent thing about the coming season changes will be that unease. It’s the recognition that our world is changing around us.

So if I haven’t scared you off yet, let’s get to the good stuff for this week. Jon explains some of the behind the scenes workings of hard drives, and Carl and David offer some ways be safe and hopefully make your life a little more peaceful.

Thanks for reading.

Liam
liam@smalldog.com