Hmmmm is it necessary?
I have got to that point in my life where I have a lot of photos, a lot of music and some doc's which if lost I would be very f'd off to loose it.
So how might it be lost? Well I dont trust computers to survive forever so in that regard I dont trust the HD's inside them or some rogue app to by mistake delete a few things.
I have 3 external drives of varying sizes which I have collected on my travels.
1 x WD 500gig drive which contains the music and is permanantly connected via Firewire to the main family PC
1 x Small 80gb portable drive. Like this. It came from an HP Universe show and all exhibitors got one, came with a little leather wallet to hold it. Very cool for pro works stuff the transfer or store on.
1 x 320gb which is blank and I am playing with backing up some stuff to it.
But what about storing it in the cloud? Why because I dont trust the HD media, and if the house was to burn down and we all survived, at some point I will want to get my stuff back. So after listening to some of CNET's The Real Deal podcasts I heard about Jungle Disk. Which looks like a very resiliant solution but just a tad expensive for what I was thinking. Although the lure of the data being stored on Amazon's S2 server stuff sounds great.
Have since found SquirrelSave as recommended by a friend, which is UK based and is cheap.
Also looking at Mozy to see how good the free account is.
One idea which I think is brilliant for the consumer and heard this suggestion on CNET BOL is that you get a cloud storage account with every HD you buy. Bloody brilliant. Why wouldn't you. I would pay more for the HD to have an equiv cloud backup. Bring it on Manufacturers.
Over and out
15 March 2009
Status Update
Currently hanging out in the kitchen with the netbook after child #1 got bored of HSM3 (thank the lord) and decided to resort to the Playhouse Disney website to do some drawing.
Jobs
Well it is a slow process and I did not manage to get the job I was really after at the time. Very disappointing. It took a few days of grouchy behaviour to get over. But I am now firmly back into the game again and next week sees a new week of job hunting. Hopefully things will start to look up.
Chores
I spent the morning at the inlaws trying to find their install of MS Office (done) so they could write a letter. Install the completely brilliant and fit for purpose Spotify which worked and fix their DVD player (was not connected to the TV correctly after they had their SkyHD installed).
Online Life
Was impressed over the last week at the response of Monster as I proceeded to log in after 5 years and find my account suspended but the speed of the their online support was very good. I set my expectations low on websites until they earn my trust. Not that I trust Monster to find me a suitable job. But you never know.
I am still battling with the absolutely brilliant Remember the Milk ToDo website. Why am I battling? Well all I want is my actions to drop into my calendar on my iPhone via Google Calendar. Yes I have the RTM iPhone app but its the discipline of opening that every morning to check it. I would prefer to see separate events in the iPhone (and thus google calendar). What did suddenly make sense is that from Tweetdeck or indeed any twitter client including the web I can send ToDo's as tweets to RTM which then adds the ToDo's to the list. Very powerful especially if you spend time in the twitterverse.
Talking of which I still cannot work out which is better to use Tweetdeck or Twhirl. I like both. I think they are both very clever. Currently Tweetdeck is winning purely from a multi-column aspect. But I have a feeling Twhirl can do this as well and i have been playing with the Friendfeed login via Twhirl. Friendfeed is something I have yet not had time to play with properly to understand and how it can simplify my social media aspect of my life (if at all).
Well gotta go and play this afternoon in the park. Catch you soon.
L8rs.
R
Jobs
Well it is a slow process and I did not manage to get the job I was really after at the time. Very disappointing. It took a few days of grouchy behaviour to get over. But I am now firmly back into the game again and next week sees a new week of job hunting. Hopefully things will start to look up.
Chores
I spent the morning at the inlaws trying to find their install of MS Office (done) so they could write a letter. Install the completely brilliant and fit for purpose Spotify which worked and fix their DVD player (was not connected to the TV correctly after they had their SkyHD installed).
Online Life
Was impressed over the last week at the response of Monster as I proceeded to log in after 5 years and find my account suspended but the speed of the their online support was very good. I set my expectations low on websites until they earn my trust. Not that I trust Monster to find me a suitable job. But you never know.
I am still battling with the absolutely brilliant Remember the Milk ToDo website. Why am I battling? Well all I want is my actions to drop into my calendar on my iPhone via Google Calendar. Yes I have the RTM iPhone app but its the discipline of opening that every morning to check it. I would prefer to see separate events in the iPhone (and thus google calendar). What did suddenly make sense is that from Tweetdeck or indeed any twitter client including the web I can send ToDo's as tweets to RTM which then adds the ToDo's to the list. Very powerful especially if you spend time in the twitterverse.
Talking of which I still cannot work out which is better to use Tweetdeck or Twhirl. I like both. I think they are both very clever. Currently Tweetdeck is winning purely from a multi-column aspect. But I have a feeling Twhirl can do this as well and i have been playing with the Friendfeed login via Twhirl. Friendfeed is something I have yet not had time to play with properly to understand and how it can simplify my social media aspect of my life (if at all).
Well gotta go and play this afternoon in the park. Catch you soon.
L8rs.
R
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