Greetings, fellow wordsmiths, and a happy new year to all.
We are often reminded by TPS about making sure that we have our work held offline, in the event of the Site getting problems, but I thought I should mention making sure that you backup your much loved poems onto an external device, and yes, I know, many of you do.
For no apparent reason, and with no warning, one of my hard drives failed on my PC. No burning smell, no clicketty-clack or chunk-a-chunk (which is more serious), it just went to bed and never woke up next morning. I lost an awful lot of recent payware, plus license keys, and hadn't backed up the important stuff for a while. Fortunately my bookmarks get saved and emailed to a remote PC, and my documents go onto a data stick.
Anyway, as we start the new year, it is easy to take our machines for granted and become complacent, but I just thought a timely reminder to back up your work to an external source, and include writing to CD or DVD so you have an archive not susceptible to electro-magnetic interference, would be a good weekly/monthly resolution. Hopefully a similar fate will never befall you.
I'm off into the shed to find a hammer.
Best wishes,
Viv