Back it up!!! There is no excuse anymore

In the last few months I know of 5 people who have lost entire drives, all their personal pictures, work data etc... All because a hard drive crashed, broke, got a virus etc.

There is no excuse anymore. A HUGE 750GB drive - enough to hold multiple backups of your drive, like little snapshots are cheap... $129 last check.. Now you can have 2 copies of your data.. Great for 99% of the time, not if your house burns down.. solution - buy two - keep one at a friends, in your safety deposit box etc... cycle them 30 days at a time.. now you have offsite redundant backup..

Use your google, mobileme account etc - that free 5-20GB of space they give you for emails etc - a perfect place to keep some offsite backups of pictures work files etc.

And for those of you on mac - make sure your using 10.5 with Time Machine - THAT TIME MACHINE IS ENABLED and that you have the drive for it... you don't need anything special etc..

Call me if you need a hand, but for goodness sake.. don't be a dolt, back it up!

PC Horror Stories

Here is a article of a crazy experience a NY Times writer went through on their PC, and a great testament to backing up often and if you need a 100% uptime PC for work, keeping a spare PC and that external backup drive around rather than selling them off.
It cost this poor fellow $800 to get his machine working again (I'm still not sure why it was that much, but whatever). It's a great read, and will usually motivate most to go backup their PC/Mac right now!

The summary:
- Backup
- Don't use Windows Vista
- Mac's a pretty good (not just me saying it!)

Read it here.

Computers - Finally of Age?

So I was doing some upgrading to my system yesterday and realized that everything ported easily, nothing needed re-installing or updating. Also on a day to day basis, I never really have to do anything to my system, just use it, and that is beautiful, the apps, processes etc all work the way they should. So with Macs and Leopard 10.5 have we finally reached a point where the software and hardware have come of age. I think so. So 25+ years after the PC first came out, and 24 years since the Mac first came out the industry may have finally come of age and be what many have thought and believed it should be.

If your still on a PC - for any reason - get your head out of the sand and come breathe some fresh air!

Just a random thought..