Vanity

Mine Is Bigger …

The picture shows a 250GB Seagate Drive, a 120GB Western Digital (aka the Blue Eyed Boy) and an old 80GB inside a firewire / USB2 case. Oh, but there’s also an 80GB in the laptop.

External hard drives are quite a popular topic at the moment and this photo shows several options. The 250GB is a [...]

New Year Resolution

How are the New Year’s resolutions? This Lifehacker post has some excellent advice for us all.

1. Regularly back up your hard drive

2. Set up a self-repairing hard drive

2. Set up a self-repairing hard drive

3. Clean out your hard drive

4. Organize your virtual file cabinet

5. Keep your hard drive clean

6. Encrypt your private data

7. Securely track [...]

Why I Won’t Join Plaxo, et al

From Boing Boing:

In the popup that appeared, the NoScript extension was blocking some JavaScript. Clicking on the button to enable the code revealed that the JavaScript was hosted at — gasp — Plaxo (no linkee for them), the company that enlists its users to send spamalicious address book related emails. So from the looks of [...]

Backups

Always do your backups.

Always.