Yesterday as I was riding to work someone in a car drove through a give-way sign in front of me. Not too close, I could see that they were going to ignore the law and ignore me from miles away. I didn’t get annoyed, I didn’t yell, just acknowledged that here was one more person in car who didn’t care about anything outside their car, and could quite easily kill or injure someone.

Then I got thinking about death, and wills and my website. Morbid stuff in a way, but how long would it all hang around? Maybe I should set up a will that asks for a header to be put on all the pages saying “Finally, there was one too many bad drivers. Sorry Mate I Didn’t See You. Adrian is no more…” Then I got caught up in thinking about more important matters, like how to cross four lanes of Ferntree Gully road and get to work…

Today I look on slashdot for a daily scan of barely intelligible nonsense and what catches my eye. An Ask Slashdot article titled What Happens To Your Data When You Die?. A lot of noise, like most articles, but a few gems of signal too. Most people agree that they’ve generally got some data that the do want people to see, to access, to know about, and some data that they don’t. The devil is in the details, what to do about it all…