PSA: Back that shit UP!

Since I'm a nice geek, this is a reminder and an open offer to all of my computer user friends out there who haven't backed up their important data lately. Time to BACK UP. You may think that your spiffy new computer will be just fine and that a crash will never happen to you, but you're so, so wrong (yet awfully beautiful, I must say).

Recently, a person I work with had the hard drive on his laptop fail. He's a copywriter, and for the last two years he blissfully created hundreds and hundreds of Microsoft Word and Final Draft documents. Not only that, he kept a bunch of his personal photos and mp3 music on the computer as well. And he never backed ANY of it up. He lost every last byte of it. 70+ gigabytes of stuff. He looked like he was going to cry when we told him it was gone. Don't let this happen to you!Okay, that was the cheesy nagging reminder part. Here's the offer. If you've never backed up your files and would like a little help in getting into a good backup habit, send me an email and I will personally (and privately - no public humiliation) do my best to help you get set up with an easy, reliable backup system.

500!

My 500th post.

Now that I've got that little bit of accounting out of the way, I want to send out a thank you to all of my friends. The last month or so has been strange and sometimes sad around here, and I've been pleasantly surprised (and even a little amazed) at how supportive and helpful my friends have been. Some of you I have never met in person, some of you I've known for years but am just now getting to where I feel safe asking for help, but each of you has been awesome.

THANK YOU.