A Public Service Announcement

We all hear the stories. Heck, it’s actually happened to many of us, but here’s the thing: we all know better.

The other day, my trusty laptop melted its own hard drive down to an unintelligible nub and I hadn’t backed up my newest project at all. My viable first draft of another project had not been backed up in months.

Yes, it feels like some part of my body has been amputated, but I think I am over the shock of it now. Or perhaps I am so far deep into shock that I sound rational. Who cares. I am just going to say it one more time and you all can ignore it at your leisure, but I hope that you do not:

BACK UP YOUR WORK.

for the more funk-minded out there, say it like this:

BACK YOUR WORK UP,

BACK THAT MOTHER UP!

I don’t care how you do it: Time Machine, expensive Windows utilities, send a daily copy off to Google Docs, thumb drives, mailing hard copies to yourself, whatever! Just do it. Make it a habit so that you don’t have to feel like I did a few days ago.

/lecture.

~ by weltschmerz on February 7, 2009.