I’m not sure if this will last, being as it looks well-produced and will probably be removed from the net somehow, but…
This is a video of comedian Robert Newman providing some history of oil production and use, and the wars that were required to keep the oil flowing. It’s long, but it’s pretty darn good.
Can you buy insurance to protect against the loss of data? That seems like a bad company to start up. Since nobody is going to compensate you for the trip to Australia so that you can re-take your irreplaceable vacation photos, you might want to consider what your backup strategy is.
Maybe I’m lazy. I bought an external drive for backing up downloaded applications and registration codes. When the computer died, I used the external drive to restore everything. It worked great. Unfortunately, I did not duplicate the drive back onto the computer, I merely re-installed directly from the backups. Later, when I switched the drive to a brand new PC, I performed the same procedure.
Well, that PC was struck by lightning or something. The booting SATA drive in that PC failed, but the data drive was left intact. The external drive (the one with all of my software on it) seemd fine and lasted long enough to rebuild most of that system, but suddenly died two nights ago.
I’m still in shock, I think. We’re talking thousands of dollars of software here, not to mention some photos of Abby when she was really little.
So. While I consider how I might still get data off of that drive, I’m trying to figure out what backup strategy is best for my needs.
Scott has as much as threatened (or at least demanded vehemently) that you attend the Philly Blogger meetup this Saturday.
Likewise, I emplore you to show up a mere hour earlier than that for the Philadelphia WordPress June Meetup. Even if you’re not a WordPress user, we have some propaganda to distribute.
It’s been quite a day. I’m up pretty late tonight for no great reason, and am still tapping out this post — on my phone, no less.
What struck me at such an hour that I needed to write about it right away; that I couldn’t wait until my computer restarted, much less until morning?