Back Your Shit Up
I’ve been bitten again. Ouch! I lost several posts from this blog yesterday due to both carelessness on my part and a sudden, unavoidable computer glitch. The crappy Dell laptop that I’m currently stuck with has a problem with the pointing device that occasionally manifests itself by spontaneously selecting and deleting a block of text in the blink of an eye if I put too much pressure on the top of the case with my palms while I’m typing.
The rest of the loss came from angry over-reaction and a failure to fully parse the consequences of a snap decision.
To add insult to injury, I’m looking for drafts and notes that I can use to reconstruct the posts because my last backup was done in August, and sadly the posts I lost were not included on it.
So if you have a way to back up your work, do it. If not, develop a means to do backups. Now. Because you will definitely need them, probably sooner than you think ….