My mission today was to clean up Eric’s 17” iMac G5 that was purchased in London in May of 2005; in the course of its long (in computer terms) life, the system software has been updated numerous times, and always by simply installing over the previous version, so the  the whole system was choking on a couple of hundred thousand useless files. The objective was to get the machine to perform as similarly as possible to the way it did when it was new while preserving the user documents. Today’s photo shows the patient along with my nearly three year old MacBook Pro, two FIrewire drives, and a few cables cluttering up the kitchen counter. In the end, the iMac, which is not a main work machine but merely something to have fun with, ran noticeably better.