Corey Gouker's Machine Inside the Mind

So my thought process behind getting rid of Exchange for a much simpler Hotmail or Gmail solution has got me thinking about simplification in general. I've been giving serious thought to dumping other complicated solutions for much mor elegant ones. For example no longer running my Server 2008 box in a domain, dumping all the services on the server and just hosting my blog and photo gallery in the cloud. In the end the server would just be a glorified file server.

Somehow though I can't bring myself to do this, I think it's got something to do with the feeling of control. Right now I can do whatever I want to the server or to any of the data. If I want to have my gallery full of 20K 8MP images I can, if I want to stream all my music I can. If I were to switch to Wordpress and Flickr I'd lose all that control.

I also find it amusing that while I want to just simplify things I'm also considering doing crap that's just the opposite. I'm tempted to switch from dasBlog to Community Server. I'm also thinking that if Apple announces Core 2 Quad's in the iMac's or MacBook's this month that I'll likely buy one and run Vista on it.

I'm tired of buying Dell's, they're just boring and work :), plus I wouldn't mind trying out OSX even if it's only for a few hours. I have considered just getting a new E series Latitude but meh, I'm not a fan of any of the Dell desktops either, they're cheap and quiet sure, but they just lack a certain something. Thinking about things a bit further, I'm kind of tired of using a laptop as my main machine. My neck is killing me from always sitting on the couch and typing away. On the other hand a laptop fits what I need really well. I guess I just need to get a small desk with a dock along with a real monitor and keyboard and mouse.

Who knows, things really aren't that complicated, everything I've got going on now just sort of takes care of itself and I don't do anything. When something does break though it is a pain. Would be nice if that wasn't the case.

I think I'm going to try and install Community Server now on coreygo.com get that running and migrate things over. Not sure what I'll do for redirection of this old site and how to migrate the data plus the RSS feed. Yay for complications.