Lumpy's Corner

"I f#$ked up and had to reinstall my OS by format last night, losing all my mail, favorites, and another 20 GB of files"

I heard just that the other night as I typed away in a chat room. The reality is that, in one, way, shape or form, we all have heard it 1000 times.

Keeping consistent with my obsessive-compulsive nature and my general tendency of consistent excess, I shall ramble to you the 1001st. Admit it, at one point or another, we have all lost at least one file. I can't count how many times I have heard stories of people losing entire hard drives and not having backed up!

Furthermore, in keeping with Lumpy's tradition of putting his foot in his mouth, I demonstrate by thrusting 2 size 10 and a half EEEs ankle deep. The day after my friend and I spoke, I managed to fry my USB RAM Drive!

Fortunately, I only lost two files. Everything else was backed-up. However, they were also the two files I had been working on for the better part of week.

It could have been worse. Like I said, you hear about it all the time, I could lave lost everything. I usually back up data every week. Likely a factor in why I have never lost "everything".

I was reading my feeds yesterday and I came across a lockergnome by Chris Pirillo. Chris was talking about someone rather careless with a cell phone conversation and it reminded me that I wanted to post a review about this software I tried. I would also suggest you go read Chris' post and take it to heart.

If you are like me, you do worry about the strength of you passwords. If you are a typical PC user however, odds are you do not even know what I mean by password strength.

This is just great. More data lost by Buckeye State. The total of all these mishaps is no over 1 million. I wonder if the new slogan should be "Ohio, the State where everyone knows who you are!"

There are more stories about my home state over at the blog linked to above. It is pretty sad.