If I spend the first several paragraphs apologizing and making excuses for not posting a column since April 2nd (ouch!), I’ll just be adding insult to injury. The Ur-Guru said to blame him, but he’s only been here since April 24th, so that won’t work. I just got caught up in other things—and I only wish all of it had been high-paying client work, which is the kind of excuse I like to be able to … [Read more...]
Outsmarting Microsoft Word
You might be wondering what Microsoft Word has to do with backups. Well, if you work as a writer (and even if you don’t), a lot of the files you back up will be Microsoft Word docs. And sometimes you’re going to need to restore one of those backed-up files. Normally, of course, this is a very simple process. You just find the disk the file is on, copy the file to your computer (you could skip … [Read more...]
Is Online Backup Bad for the Environment?
Disclosure: this post contains Amazon affiliate links. I bet you’re smart enough to figure out which ones they are. As we were driving back from Palm Desert to Pasadena earlier this month, the Ur-Guru pointed out a problem with the current craze for cloud computing. No, not the problem I’ve talked about before—slow broadband or no broadband at all making it impractical if not impossible to store … [Read more...]
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