Tag: backups

  • My 3 Cyber Security Tools, July 2021 Edition

    21 Jul 2021 » 5 min read about tech, Technology & Gadgets

    Back in May when I made a call for suggestions on what to write here, one of the good ones was from Steve, who wrote: “Any thoughts or concerns you might have related to cyber security. Potential tips/processes you employ to protect yourself.” Ten years ago, when I was writing my Going Paperless series, I…

  • CrashPlan to the Rescue

    12 Jan 2021 » 3 min read about tech

    We have been using CrashPlan for our home computer backups for nearly 8 years. During that time, it has come in handy on a couple of occasions when I needed to restore a file, or was transferring data to a new computer. Mostly, it sits in the background unnoticed. Backup software is like that. It’s…

  • Website outage and recovery (and kudos to IDrive)

    01 Jul 2011 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta

    So if you have been following along in the last 24 hours, you’ll know that this site was down for most of yesterday. It went down just before 11am. As of 2:30am EDT on July 1, the site is back up and by my estimates, 99.9% restored. The specifics of what happened are not completely…

  • Where does a fan’s responsibility lie? Amazon’s screw-up with A Dance with Dragons

    29 Jun 2011 » 4 min read about Reading & Books

    It is by no means any secret now that Amazon in Germany screwed up and shipping about 180 copies of George R. R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons to people who had placed orders. Martin is furious about this, as he should be. A Dance with Dragons is book 5 in the Song of Ice…

  • My review of A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin

    17 Jun 2011 » 5 min read about Reading & Books, reviews

    Last night I finished reading George R. R. Martin’s A Clash of Kings, the second book in the Song of Ice and Fire series. ¬†I gave Game of Thrones a 5-star rating. Five stars is a hard rating to come by and a hard rating to match and while I didn’t give A Clash of…