No spring this year? No problem – it's still time to clean up your tech stuff

The Coach's Team ^ | 6/1/18 | Jim Bray

[Oldpuppymax]

Despite a winter that seems to have pushed spring out of the way to make room for an early summer, the usual stuff you do during spring still need to be done.

This could be the first car wax job of the year, the final throwing out of all that Christmas wrapping you were hoping to use for re-gifting, or just the first mowing of the lawn. And according to IT security company ESET, there's some stuff you can and maybe should be doing to help ensure your technology is brought into the new year as well, whether it be kicking and screaming or not.

An email I received from ESET's PR folks pitches the plaintive plea "do we ever think about spring cleaning our electronics?" And it made me think. Heck, I've never actually considered spring cleaning my stuff (my dear wife would probably say I never think about cleaning at all – including showering – let alone spring cleaning), preferring to let things pile up until they can be ignored no longer.

As much as its email to me was undoubtedly meant to score some cheap advertising (and didn't that work out well!) ESET's advice does make sense. Why not take a specific time of year to take care of business when it comes to keeping your technology safe and up to date? One time of year to do it all, and then you don't have to worry about it until the calendar flips around again (using the calendar rather than the thermometer as a guide, since we clearly can't depend on Parent Nature to give us a real season in which to do our spring cleaning). And then you can go back to techno-sleeping...

[Albion Wilde]

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