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November 14, 2026
Overload...
• The recent data overload crisis experienced by Microsoft was yet another reminder for me that I need to begin the process of clearing out and letting go of all the junk I have surrounded myself with over many years.
What I considered important at the time is no longer necessary, and there’s no point in hanging on to items and possessions I do not or cannot make use of. Also, as I age, I am less able to manage all that I possess. It’s time to let go.
That will mean I shall spend less time posting on my websites and instead devote more hours to decluttering my home and my life. It has to be done.
I suppose my intention can be likened to the biblical account of Exodus, shaking off all shackles of enslavement as I head towards the Promised Land.
Have you ever noticed how refugees travel light, and as they make their exodus, they often discard the heavy possessions they carry along the roadside?
• A strange journey
“It is a strange journey, across arid plains and verdant valleys, and deserts—a journey of many crossroads and endless sharp turns that confuse and clamour for a rest. But the hunger for God knows no rest. So I go on and on and on. Yes, it is a strange journey that slowly makes me shed all the baggage I took for it –before I knew that it was too heavy a load for this kind of journey. I don’t know where I left it—somewhere back there by some crossroad. Now I am baggage-less, but somehow still too heavily burdened.”
Part of a poem titled The Journey Inward, by Catherine Doherty, Servant of God
• Jesus said to his disciples, “Take nothing for the journey: neither staff, nor haversack, nor bread, nor money; and let none of you take a spare tunic.”
Luke 9 : 3
November 13, 2026
The word of God
• This disciple is the one who vouches for these things and has written them down, and we know his testimony is true.
There were many other things that Jesus did; if all were written down, the world itself, I suppose, would not hold all the books that would have to be written.
John 21 : 24-25
• Turning to resilience, global cybersecurity advisor Jake Moore says that to increase this we need to "load more servers".
This is such a "data hungry world that we're living in", he says. "We need more space" to accommodate the amount that we are using.
Moore adds that we are "incredibly dependent on these particular [tech] giants", so we should make sure we have backups in place for when things go wrong - like access to WhatsApp, Slack or other messaging platforms.
source: BBC