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I’m glad that I came across this because it’s been a couple of months since I made a good backup of my computer. That’s one of those no-brainers that a lot of people just don’t seem to do as often as they should. Sometimes the things that are easiest to do are the hardest to do and backing up data is one if those things.

If you’ve ever had a system crash where you lost all of your data, you know what I am talking about. It sucks to lose everything that you’ve worked on for months. I’m sure for some people it would even be longer than that. There are several different choices when making backups. Now that I am running Vista it is even easier, but most people still run Windows XP or something older, or perhaps a Mac. Backing up data is not that easy, and restoring it is even harder. I don’t trust anyone else to do it for me either. There are places, “Geek Squads”, that you can take your computer and have them back up your entire computer, but they won’t give any kind of guarantee that all of it is saved or even accessible for that matter.

Backing up over the Internet is one more option. Online backup is easier than you think. Usually you can get set up withing five minutes or so and it’s pretty cheap. Generally speaking it’s pretty cheap as well, about $2 per gig of data. That’s particularly nice if all you are backing up is documents and really important stuff. That’s generally what I do. The operating system and everything else I can restore from DVD and then my docs are kept in a separate backup as well.

I am getting ready to make a backup of my web site as well. I have most of my blog entries archived, at least up through the 1st of April but the mp3s and pictures are not. I should be able to save most of the site offline so that if there is a system crash I can get up and running again pretty easily.

If you don’t make regular backups, you need to ask yourself what would happen if your hard drive were to die right now. What would you lose?

I had this all typed up and ready to post but never did, so here it is.

That was weird. My site’s been down for I don’t know how long. I guess that was my Friday the 13th surprise. It did give me some time to take care of a few other items though. I have one more girl to do taxes for once I finish this. I guess she decided at the last minute it was time to file. Whatever.

One of the three district manager with my company out here is leaving. Monday is apparently going to be his last day. I just found out about it today. Since I’ve turned down the last few promotions that they offered me I don’t know if they are even going to talk to me about this one, but if they do I think I am going to take it. It’s three stores that are local to me. I think the farthest one is about nine miles from my house. It means more hours but it’s also about a $20-30k increase in pay. That would help out nicely right now. I don’t think they’ll make any changes for a couple of weeks anyway as my boss goes on vacation Tuesday. They aren’t going to leave a store without a manager and a district.

If the site happens to go down again, it is on the same server as my other two sites, so I generally post on a myspace blog. I think I have maybe posted about 15 times there in a year. It’s nothing particularly spectacular but I set it up initially to keep an eye on my son. If you have a myspace account stop by and say hello. My main space is http://www.myspace.com/shadowscope.

I received a call earlier this afternoon from my Internet provider. Automated of course, but cool nonetheless. Charter will be doing maintenance in my area from midnight until six AM tomorrow morning, so if you email or post a comment it is very unlikely that I will respond until tomorrow evening particularly since Thursday is my meeting day and I might not get home until late.

I came across the link to this youtube video at Digg this morning and figured it would at least be funny. Perhaps all of my humor has fled this morning but all I really wanted to do was find this dick and punch him in the nose for wasting so many people’s valuable time. I suppose it could be worse.

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