Only this morning I had to lecture Kobie on the importance of making back-ups. She sent herself something vie Googlemail (good move) so she has a copy (good move), and then promptly opened the attachment in Word and started to edit it (bad move). She did save it, but of course Word saves edited attachements in an obscure temp folder somewhere in the arcane directory structure.

She’s probably still smarter than I am. If only I had mailed all my unpublished podcasts to myself…

I am smarter than this. For example, the last series of podcasts we recorded in South Africa was backed up properly. Tonight I finally sat down to edit the series and start producing again, when I discovered - to my horror - that I had lost the files. All of them, lock, stock, and barrel. This includes all the stuff I had done for 4Geeks, as well as all the stuff for Drop Knee and even the fledgeling Culture Shock. Music, interviews, the works.
But I am not stupid, and I had the big drive partioned with another back-up on the second partition. You guessed it, this drive was also wasted.

No fear, as I even went so far as to make a third copy on a seperate computer! This happens to be Kobie’s laptop. No need to say, this computer had already caved in more than a week ago, data and all.

If any body in the future is reading this, please teleport a fourth back-up copy to me please. The material was brilliant, as you no doubt know (being in the future).

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