I'm finally backing up.

I purchased a Firewire hard drive enclosure off eBay. I pulled the extra 80GB hard disk out of the GeekMan's World server (I wasn't using it for anything) and popped it into the enclosure. It lives at the office. While I'm here, I hook it up to my laptop and have a little program called SilverKeeper scan my hard drive for changed or new files and adds them to the backup. I hope that when Mac OS X Leopard comes out that I can switch to using Time Machine.

It's a load off my mind. I take my computer everywhere and there are tons of bad things that could happen. Fire, theft, spontaneous hard disk damage (looking in your direction again, Dixons). Losing the laptop isn't a huge deal (besides the cost), but losing all my files would basically be a LIFE DISASTER. All the music I've ever written, all my creative efforts, emails from 2001, purchased music, the list goes on. You have no idea; I have AppleWorks drawings of Lego models that I drew back in 1994. It says on the file, "Date Modified: May 20, 1994". It's been with me through 5 different Macintoshes. I often wonder what will happen to all these files when I'm gone. What a strange era. No more paper, just files, files, files... but every bit as precious to me.