Backups

It's been a weird week, enough hard drives failed that if I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd be wanting a word with the Chinese. No one was spared, friends, colleagues, clients and even Clif from Sonikmatter suffered. For those of you lucky enough to be spared, it's bad, really bad, it's not the kind of thing you'd wish on a racist taxi driver, it's that bad.
It's one of those despair in the pit of your stomach moments, you'll be angry, tearful, frustrated and then angry again. The bad news is you're on your own, there's not a hard drive manufacturer I've come across that will cover the data. If your drive is under warranty you may get a new drive or a repair but you won't get your precious data back.
The good news is hard drives are cheap, there's good free back up software and once you've set it running your back up can proceed unsupervised. There's no excuse, go and back up now.

Launch

Rather than indulge in some self congratulatory, celebrity endorsed ribbon cutting event I've gone for the soft opening. Lets be clear, they'll be mistakes but hopefully no one will get hurt. Grammar has been abused, punctuation ignored and spelling mistakes have escaped into the wild. What really concerns me though is the human damage. Have I spelt your name wrong ? Have I not given credit where it's due ? Do any of my links take you to German animal porn sites ? Please let me know ? You can email me by clicking here.
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