The Ur-Guru pointed me to this sad post on Refreshing News: A Calgary man is desperate to get his stolen laptop, with years of work on it, back. It was stolen from the trunk of his car while he went for a run in Edworthy Park Wednesday night. John Boldt is pleading for the return of his hard drive, which contains research and notes for the thesis he was writing for his master’s degree … [Read more...]
Why You Need Your Own Website Backups
I was listening to Marketing Over Coffee a few weeks ago and heard a sad tale of woe from co-host John Wall. His blog, Ronin Marketeer, was down for four days. Hosed, in fact. Literally. On February 20th, there was an an accident during the annual inspection of the fire-suppression system at WestHost’s data center. If you rewrite WestHost’s account of the incident in the active voice, it amounts … [Read more...]
Even Geeks Suffer from Data Loss
Yesterday the Ur-Guru pointed me to a post on Coding Horror entitled “International Backup Awareness Day.” Coding Horror is normally a blog, and the permalinks to posts don’t normally look like the one I just pasted in there. Depending on when you read this, clicking on that link might get you a “404: Page Not Found” error. Thanks to catastrophic data loss, Coding Horror is only pretending to be a … [Read more...]
Putting Your Data in Danger
Would you entrust your data to a company called “Danger”? Microsoft and T-Mobile did. And it was your data, if you were a Sidekick user. The adventure began on October 10th. The headline in TechCrunch read “T-Mobile Sidekick Disaster: Danger’s Servers Crashed, And They Don’t Have A Backup.” Jason Kincaid, author of the TechCrunch article, was absolutely scathing on the subject: This goes … [Read more...]
You Know That One About Human Error?
I woke up at 2 AM this morning. Don’t ask why, because I haven’t the faintest idea, but there I was. Since by 3:00 it was clear I wasn’t going to get back to sleep, I turned on the computers and attempted to be productive. By about 10:30 AM I was nearly finished creating a mind map for the website redesign for a corporate client, based on their suggestions and another site they thought was a good … [Read more...]
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