Jim Robinson over at Money Talks News has put together a nice article giving five basic steps for getting a jump start on your paperless life.
Among other things he discusses options for prioritizing and cutting down on the total volume of stuff you plan on keeping, digital or otherwise.
“Backup, backup, backup” made number four on [...]
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Another good checklist for going paperless
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
Don’t worry if you didn’t sanitize your documents—even the TSA forgets occasionally
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
It’s too comical to be true. A few months back, when I wrote an article warning about inadequate attempts at sanitizing PDF documents, I thought that any organization serious about censoring documents would not make such a basic error. Especially not a government agency, after the military had been caught by this pitfall.
Apparently this is [...]
Life’s too short to fight with a lame shredder
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Anyone who is packing serious scanning hardware should also be packing serious shredding hardware. It may not matter if another Capital One offer slips into the trash intact, but there’s no way I’m going to dispose of old tax records or medical records without rendering them completely useless to the enemy.
Here is my own short list of things to look for when you are buying a new shredder.


