The new year is a time for change

As the year goes along, I tend to add alot of stuff to my computer. New programs, e-mail list services, whatever. For some reason around the new year I always get the urge to purge. Here are some of my latest purges:

Leaving the mailing lists for;

Expedia travel offers (i never took any of them anyway)
Shavlik technologies vulnerability assessment newsletter (invested in a competitor, Lockdown Networks).
VentureWire alert (never anything I don’t already know in there).
Ken Rutkowski’s Ken Radio tech news. Ken is great, but I have too much news already.
ClearStation’s daily portfolio update (I am no longer trading through them nor doing day trading, this is really a day trader platform).
Network World SOHO technology (the reporting has been soooo bad for sooo long I wonder why I didn’t ditch it earlier).
SmartHome newsletter (I am just going to let my contractor do this and these guys are X10 bigots anyway).
Northwest Energy Effeciency Alliance list serve (this is an electricity industry insider RFP announcement thing, never got any new information here).
PaidContent.org’s daily news brief (as much as I enjoy Rafat’s reporting, I am not going to be doing any deals around microcontent in 2005 so I am over it).
RFID Journal newsletter (at one point I thought about doing an RFID deal, but I doubt I will do one in 2005).
AlwaysOn and anything “new” Red Herring (Never found anything new here and very high signal to noise ratio).
Bose Corporation e-mail (hey guys, I have the headphones, when I need more stuff I will find you).
Classmates.com newsletters (they make it incredibly hard to leave, so I just changed my e-mail address to one i send all the spam to).
Cisco technical support newsletter (i love my AeroNet access point, but have never read the news letter).

comming next… More deleted software and the upside, What I still subscribe to!