I'll admit to some stupidity: I once installed a trial version of Microsoft Outlook 2003. I organised all my e-mails files in Outlook, saved it and let the trial license expire. I then had to wait until I could download a trial of Outlook 2007, until I could access the files again. Or shell out for Office 2003/07, but it's never worth the few hundred quid in the shop.

Anyway, I've retrieved e-mails now from the past seven years - most of it spam, the rest of it cringe worthy. It reminds me of people at the Dutch Young Greens, a crazy woman in Hawaii, lovely girls at workplaces and in Australia, travels, meeting my Lottie.. But awkwardly of course, when working with Outlook I have a professional urge to organise everything effectively. So many times the help desk analyst in me thought "I shouldn't fit more than 500 mb in each file, should I?" and the control freak in me added: "Should I file by month and year as on my blog, or by person, category or ehrmm, era?"

I won't elaborate.. But I'm sure my effectively organised e-mail will fill some gaps in the archive on here.. ;o)