WHAT THEY TALKING BOUT…..

How Microsoft blew it with Windows Mobile (CNN.com)

J.J. Abrams Comes Clean on Star Trek Coincidences, Sequel (Wired.com)

Google OS: the end of the hard drive? (CNN.com)

Week in Style: 11.20.09 (GQ.com)

Female Depression: Why Women Are Unhappier Than They’ve Been in Years (Elle.com)

316,000 Bongs, Disguised As Christmas Ornaments, Seized By Customs Agents In LA (Huffingtonpost.com)

Steve Harvey, Cash Money Records Giving Back for Thanksgiving (Blackvoices.com)

How To: Back Up Any Smartphone (Gizmodo.com)

Urban Mogul Life Needs You (Urban Mogul-Life)

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Backing up your Joomla database is important.  Why, you ask?  Well, for the simple reason that the database is the most important part of your website.  Templates can be re-installed, just like plug-ins, modules and components.  But without your database, you’re doomed.  It contains all articles, and anything Joomla related that was created over time.  Users, Newsletters, forum posts, links, menu item…   If you don’t have a back-up of your database to fall back on when you run into problems, you probably have to start all over. 

That’s why it’s important to back-up your Joomla database.  There might be “Joomla” ways to do this, but I’ve always preferred to do this manually.  To back-up your Joomla database, you’ll need to use a tool which allows you to access / manage your MySQL databases – whether they’re stored on a local machine or on the server of your hosting company.  Below, you’ll find two tools that I regularly use to get the job done. 

1.  PHPMyadmin:  Used so often, that it’s considered to be a “standard” by many.  This tool is mainly used to manage databases; and might already be installed on your server.  By using the export function of this tool, you’ll get the SQL code you need to rebuild your database later on.  Downside: You’ve got to paste it in notepad / your editor of choice and save it yourself.

2. PHPMybackuppro:  This free tool has one goal: to allow you to back-up your databases in a simple way.  It offers many options, like mailing the back-ups or FTP’ing them to a remote location.  The big advantage of this tool is that, once it’s configured, making a back-up is as simple as pressing the “back up” button”.  Or, if you’ve managed to schedule back-ups, you don’t even have to do a thing. 

With these two tools, you should be able to do the job.  In a future post, I’ll summarize how to make a back-up with PHPMyadmin. 

Setelah lama tidak mainan PostgreSQL saya jadi terlupa beberapa perintah dasar it. Salah satunya menampilkan tabel.

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Sedangkan untuk nge-dump database bisa pakai perintah di bawah. Pretty simple. Perintah ini akan nge-dump baik struktur maupun data.

$ pg_dump nama_database > out_file.sql

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Most business people who travel these days have a laptop in tow. Since the workflow doesn’t stop when the need to travel arises, these are necessities that connect them to the rest of the world and allow them to take care of whatever business comes up during the time that they’re away. That being the case, there are certain guidelines that should be followed in order to ensure the safety and protection of your laptop when you get called away from the office.
One of the first considerations that should be made is in regard to the laptop’s security.

Since thieves will target these as often as they will cash, jewelry or other valuables, it’s critical to put as many security measures into place as possible when traveling through airports, bus terminals, train stations and any other form of public travel. Of course, it’s never wise to leave your laptop unattended. It’s a sad testament to the way of the world, but you can be fairly certain that when you return, your equipment will be gone.
When packing for your trip, place the laptop in a case that’s different – and less obvious – from its standard carrying case, and make sure that it’s checked in as carry-on luggage.

This will not only ensure that it doesn’t get stolen, but will be in the pressurized part of the plane, rather than the baggage compartment, which doesn’t have pressure or climate controls that are needed to ensure the integrity of the laptop.
If you’re planning to take a nap while you’re en route via public transportation, be sure to secure the laptop before going to sleep. Some people go so far as to cuff the unit to their wrist, but there are other measures that you can take, which include placing it in its case and putting it between your feet or between yourself and the wall if you’re sitting by a window.

In the event that anything should actually happen to violate the integrity of the laptop – or if it should be stolen, despite your precautions – it’s to be expected that you’ll have backed up all critical information onto disks before beginning your travels.
When you arrive at the hotel, speak with the front desk clerk to be sure that their phone jacks are compatible with your unit. If they happen to use a digital phone system which differs in voltage from that of a standard phone jack, your modem will most likely be damaged when you try to plug it in and dial-up to get an outside connection, <a href="http://www.

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In addition to the laptop itself, it’s always a good idea to bring an extension cord and extra batteries. Even though you may plan to use electricity, you should also include a back-up plan, and batteries may only give, www.chase.com, you a few hours’ worth of power at a time before needing to be recharged, www.

chase.com, or changed. When possible, cut down on the use of those things which need large amounts of energy, such as CD-ROMs, and reduce the number of auto-saves on your machine.
By using your common sense and taking simple precautions, as well as including some back-up cords and batteries, you should be able to travel safely and simply, www.chase.com, with your laptop without a lot of hoopla.
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Okay, I know that this tool isn’t exactly “new,” but bear with me.

Once upon a time, I would write a book as a Word file on my home computer, and then back-up that file to a USB drive that I carried around in my pocket. This served two functions: I had a back-up copy in case of a Windows-related natural disaster, and I could pop my USB into any computer at any time to carry on writing when I wasn’t home.

But it is time to move on!

For MERIDIAN (which is shaping up to be both very awesome and very different from my previous novels), I am drafting the book on Google Documents. This allows me to do all my work online, so I don’t need the USB drive as a roaming access draft. I can noodle with my book at any time, from anywhere with Internet access. And I can download or otherwise copy the manuscript to my hard drive as a back-up.

But wait, there’s more! No more sending chapters or full drafts to alpha and beta readers! I can simply grant my friends read-only access to the work-in-progress and let them look at it online.

The only significant downside thus far is that you can only edit your document’s appearance using CSS, so in order to make my paragraphs begin with an indented line, I needed to re-learn something I was happy to have forgotten. Luckily, there are tools available to give you the CSS code you want without doing much work, like CSSMate.

I will let you know if my Google Docs experiment is a help or a hindrance to my writing. But I can already tell you it has helped my document sharing immensely. (My wife likes the first chapter of MERIDIAN! Yay!)

There’s lots of activity in Countryside these days.  Here’s what’s going on in the neighborhood.

Active properties:  23012 Vesper, 2 bedrooms, 943 square feet, list price $399,000, 66 days on market.  22811 Larkin, 3 bedrooms, 1,224 square feet, list price $449,900, 15 days on market.

Properties taking back-up offers:  23871 Danby, 2 bedrooms, 1,184 square feet, list price $350,000, 229 days on market. 22895 Aspan 3 bedrooms, 1,260 square feet, list price $350,000, 16 days on market.  24162 Hurst, 4 bedrooms, 1862 square feet, list price $395,000, 201 days on market.  23822 Boeing, 3 bedrooms, 1,404 square feet, list price $400,000, 433 days on market.

Pending sales:  22931 Sierra, 3 bedrooms, 1,668 square feet, list price $399,000, 112 days on market.

Sold within last 3 months:  24026 Sutton, 3 bedroom 1,510 square feet, sold for $390,000, 4 days on market.  23972 Sutton, 4 bedrooms,1,577 square feet, sold for $400,000, 5 days on market.  22965 Vesper 4 bedrooms, 1746 square feet, sold for $395,000, 22 days on market.  23932 Sutton , 5 bedrooms, 1,800 square feet, sold for $470,000, 26 days on market. 22985 Starbuck, 3 bedrooms, 1,540 square feet, sold for $459,900, 62 days on market.

If you haven’t heard of, or used, Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com) go check it out.  And now Dropbox got even better. Yep, it’s finally here! The Dropbox iPhone app can now be yours (for free) from the App Store. It’s now 3.0 compatible too! Also in the works is an update to the app that includes optional passcode locking, better handling of images and more. For all you non-iPhone users, fear not! We’ve got some more mobile magic on the way.

Hello, and welcome to the first in our 6-part series of going paperless in your office. Our series will tell you why you should switch; what equipment you should purchase along with other software you should have. We also have a special installment on how to go (virtually) paperless in an Accounts office.

The term ‘Paperless’ has been around since the 1970’s, and more and more offices are now trying to become Paperless. This may be the trend in the US, but in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, companies are only starting to feel the benefits and are switching to a paperless system.

So why should you switch to a paperless office?
There are many benefits to having a Paperless office – the main fact is that is efficient. There’s less need to post letters and important documents as they’re likely to get lost in the post (even more so when there’s a strike going on) as well having an important document not being delivered on time. Having documents and files saved onto a computer network makes them quick and easy to find – all you have to do is type in a keyword in the search bar – et voilà! Your file magically appears in front of your eyes! Going Paperless is also good for the environment – you will be saving trees being chopped down from our ever-ending rainforests. And, of course, you will be saving money as you won’t be spending large sums of money on paper and ink cartridges.

Obviously, there are cons to having a paperless office, for example printing out long documents to read over at a later date as well as having to print out invoices and statements as your hard copies (the accountancy offices in England as well as the VAT people still like to see paper copies even though they’ve just started accepting electronic versions), but overall the positives outweighs the negatives.

Now we know that having a Paperless office would be beneficial for your business, you would need to buy some new equipment to help you into becoming paperless. One piece of equipment you would certainly need is a 3-in-1 Printer Scanner and Photocopier. Yes, I did say printer but you may be surprised – you only need to buy a cheap scanner that’ll scan in your documents – the total cost of that won’t be more than £100 but some retailers do stock them for under £100 – it’s best to look around and chat to the seller about your needs (i.e. how many pages you need to scan in at a time, etc) and they will be able to tell you the best model for you It may turn out that you don’t require a 3 in 1 and can just purchase a standalone scanner. You will also need some software called an OCR Reader (OCR = Optical character recognition) – it’s best to buy this separately and is usually under £50.

Another thing you will need to think about is organising a back-up system. Larger corporations would spend money on a remote backup system (using broadband) which will protect you from earthquakes, hurricanes and floods. A downside to using this system is that it’s slower than using a local data service (you’re using your internet connection) and that you need to trust your ISP with your data, etc. Other cheaper alternatives includes backing up on CD-RWs as data discs or using USB drives.

So, now you have seen what you need to plan in order to change to a paperless system in your office. Join us for our 2nd installment where we’ll tell you how to create a gradual system for switchover as well as what to keep as paper filing and what file extensions to use instead of sending out documents via paper.

Hardware reviews are pretty rare here – we tend to focus on software and websites, but since I’ve recently bought a dandy new bit of hardware, I’ve decided to pen a review of this rather smashing bit of kit.

The backup begins just after plugging the device into a USB port.

I’m not very good with backing up files. I tend to copy my important work to a USB, and then to my laptop, but other than that, I’ve never run a full back-up of any of my PCs. Part of the reason for that is I’ve never had anywhere to store the files, other than dozens of disks, which would have been incredibly awkward.. I could have bought an external hard-drive, but I didn’t want to have to remember to copy files over when I change them or create new ones. Luckily I’ve found a bit of kit that does it all for me – the Clickfree C2 Automatic Backup.

It set me back about £80 200GB of storage space. That might sound overpriced, but bear with me –  this bit of kit differs from normal off-board hard drives in that it detects the files on your computer, and copies them to itself. Not only that, but it also detects when a file is changed, and updates the copy. The hardest bit about using this product was getting it out of the package – it’s in one of those awful clamshell cases that can only be opened with pair of scissors or other such attacking implement. Having eventually managed to remove it, it was then just a case of slotting the hard drive into the dock, and plugging it into a USB port.

New or changed files are automatically detected and backed up.

The dock comes with two USB connectors, but you only need to plug one in unless your PC doesn’t have USB 2.0 ports, which it most likely does. If nothing starts happening once you’ve plugged it in, sticking the second connector in another socket should give it enough power to get it whirring.

After Windows had found the device and was happy with it, a Clickfree window popped up and started counting down to the backup. I didn’t need to install any software to do this – it’s stored on the portable hard drive and runs automagically when you plug it in. Having sifted through all my files, it then set about making backups of them. After this first backup, all future backups will only copy new or changed files, which means you don’t have to worry about duplicates or not having the latest version of the file safely stored. If you wish to, a small bit of software can be installed that sets the backups on a timer – anything from every two hours to every two weeks.

The hard drive can also be detached from the dock and carried with you wherever you need it. It’s very small, light, and portable, so packing it when you go on holiday or on a business trip should be no trouble. You could even carry all your files on this device rather than taking your laptop with you, provided you have access to another computer when you arrive at your destination.

Something at particularly impressed me was the way in which the device makes it simple to backup multiple PCs – plug it into any other PC or Mac and it will begin backing up the files after 30 seconds unless you tell it not to. It also creates a separate area on the drive for each PC that you’re backing up – so there’s a different section for your desktop, laptop, spare PC, etc, which makes it easy to browse your relevant files.

The files stored can also be browsed and opened directly from the drive, and the software also contains search features to prevent you having to sift through the files. There’s also a special photo section, which groups all your images and allows you to print or email them. Such features could come  in handy if you take your hard drive to another PC and want to edit or print your documents or photos without having to copy them to the computer.

My only qualm was with the file browser, which is difficult to navigate.

My only complaint with the product is that the ability to browse the files on the drive is limited to the software that came with Clickfree; which means that I can’t look through the files using Windows Explorer. This seems to be because the files are encrypted when they are copied to the drive, but it’s just a bit of a hassle not being able to browse through the files and folders using Explorer, and instead having to use a somewhat clumsy and outdated Clickfree alternative.

Despite this, the device itself is absolutely fantastic, and it works brilliantly. It takes the pain out of having to manually copy new files and update when they’re changed. It’s just slightly below a five  star rating – the only thing that needs changing is the file browsing software. The device can be purchased from a few different retailers, I got mine from QVC whilst it was on on offer, but the price has since increased, so it may be a good idea to pay £10 extra and get the 500GB version.

Click to play video demo of the product.

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I number of years back I lost everything in a hard drive crash and learned my lesson.  Now I BACK-UP religiously but to stay totally safe, one also needs to back-up off-site (or take the pain of keeping backups off-site).

Local backup is a useful and necessary part of securing your data against catastrophe, but with the advent of broadband and inexpensive online storage, you’ve got little reason to not back up critical files to the cloud as well.

Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite online backup solutions. Now we’re back to share the five most popular solutions Lifehacker readers use to back up their data online and keep it secure in the event that some unforeseen event at their on-site location—fire, flood, theft, someone casts Chain Lighting in the server room—wipes out their local backup. [read]

Een foto of schilderij aan de muur vervaagt, een langspeelplaat krijgt na verloop van tijd tikken en spetters, en het papier van een boek verkruimelt. In de it-wereld daarentegen kun je door digitale codering eindeloos perfecte kopieën blijven maken en zo gegevens tot in de eeuwigheid goed houden. Bits blijven altijd jong en fris als het ware.

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Backing up the data on your PC ranks right up there with getting a root canal.  Or so you’d think based upon how few people have a good backup system in place for their irreplaceable data.  Yet today, with so much of our lives in digital form, it’s more important than ever.

This issue was brought sharply into focus for me on 15 October when I returned home from a meeting to find the screen of my eight week old laptop black with the ominous message: “No OS found”.  I tried numerous times to get it to boot but to no avail.  Diagnostics confirmed that the hard disk had failed.  I guess I shouldn’t have been as surprised as I was, as electronics typically will fail in the first 90 days or they’re good for years.  But my heart fell when I saw that message.  Why?  Because I had not yet backed up any of the data on my “new” laptop – I figured I had time to do that later.

Fortunately for me, I was able to start the laptop using a bootable Linux CD (from Knoppix).  And, though the laptop’s HD would no longer boot, it spun up and I was able to copy all of my data off onto another network computer (“and there was much rejoicing”).

I got lucky.  This time.  I should have had a backup system in place.  I do on my other PCs but had not yet set something up on the laptop.  Valuable life lesson learned.

Backing up data is not unlike saving for retirement: both are most successful if automated.  I use a simple system to do this: I have each PC on the network copy any new files to a different PC on the network every night using one of two free utilities: Abakt and Cobian Backup.  It’s simple and automatic.  Large media files I back up manually every so often to writeable CDs or DVDs.  I do the same with any downloaded software I wish to back up.

But what if you don’t have multiple computers or, even if you do, they are not networked together?  As I see it you have two decent options: utilize an online/internet backup service (PC Mag has a review of several here) or a removable external drive.  Several of the former services offer a free option with 5GB of storage; cost of the latter option has plummeted to where you can now pick up 640GB of external USB storage for about $70.  Spending a little more will typically buy you a drive with included, automatic backup software.  Trust me – automatic is good.

One final backup option I’m partial to is a network attached storage (NAS) solution employing either RAID 1 or X-RAID® (to be fair, there are RAID solutions available for inside your PC but that gets much more complicated).  These RAID configurations write your data to two physical hard drives which are mirror images of each other.  When one of the drives fail (which it will do – drives are electromechanical devices with a lifespan of 3-5 years) you just replace the failed drive with a new one and the RAID software will mirror the data on the good drive onto the new one and you are back in business.  To insure the safety of your data if you go this route, you must either save all of your critical info only on this drive array OR you must use one of the previously discussed back up software programs to copy key data to the RAID system on a daily/nightly basis.

It has gotten so easy and inexpensive to automatically back up your data that there is no excuse to not have a system in place.  Don’t wait until it is too late.

Who saw that recent documentary about Mike Perham, the 15-year-old who sailed round the world on his own?

Poor bloke got dumped by his girlfriend halfway round and by Panama he looked really bored and was probably missing his Xbox and Hollyoaks an awful lot. What a monumental achievement though.

Anyway, this got us thinking about situations when psonar.com would be really useful and travelling in general and sailing both seem like scenarios when the service could really come into its own.

For example, if you use a netbook when on the move (say you own a nice yacht or cruiser and like disappearing for long weekends up the coast) but you store your music library on an external drive or full-size PC, then using Psonar would enable you to sail off into the sunset, free of anything bar your netbook, and still access your entire music library whenever you have an internet connection.

Many modern marinas also now have wi-fi (there’s always a dongle or mobile option if not) and, once connected, you could stream all your music without using the extra space and power required for a larger computer or external device.

Think how useful that would be if you’re off on a long voyage, like a round-the-world trip.

The same goes for any laptop or PC, but everyone and their dog seems to have a netbook these days and the one thing they lack is a hard-drive to store vast amounts of data, like a music collection. Using psonar.com as a mobile music hard-drive solves this problem instantly.

Backpackers and travellers could also find the service incredibly useful. Not only would you be backing up your iPod (or similar device) into the Psonar Cloud thus insuring against the theft of your music collection whilst hanging out in the less desirable parts of whatever far-flung destination you find yourself in, but you could also access all your tunes from any internet connection in the world simply by logging in and hitting play on psonar.com.

Just think how many hostel parties that could get started. Our livers shudder to think.

What is your problem President Obama?

Do you not understand what your role as commander in chief is? That means you call the shots involving any military decision. Why do you announce a strategy for Afghanistan way back in March of this year and here we are eight months later with our soldiers spinning in the sand in harm’s way while you are playing golf, running off to Copenhagen to give a sales pitch for the Olympics and playing backyard basketball with your boys? In case you are too busy trying to promote legislation on health care which will destroy our economy while creating a world record national deficit on top of an out of control spending spree, our children are dying in Afghanistan daily. Your very own hand picked General which you avoid as if he has the H1N1 flu has made it very clear that in order to win this war and implement the strategy your administration has developed, you must send in the requested troop build up now! Hell President, send twice the amount of troops if it will help keep our soldiers there safe. This is not about politics and standing in the spotlight. You need to make a decision right this minute to send the troops or bring them back home now. Your weakness of indecision has reverberated across the globe to every possible enemy against the United States of America and if that doesn’t bother you maybe the fact that your inability to make the call is costing us the lives of our children. If not, then maybe your words in your biography about you siding with the Muslims are true. Man up Mr. President and send the troops or bring them home until we can replace you with a real Commander in Chief.

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We all know we need to do backups. But that is only half the story. Have you actually checked you can read them back if you need to? I have heard stories of people religiously backing up to mag tape every day for years, only to find out the tapes were corrupt and couldn’t be read back when needed.

I checked my backups recently to ensure I could read them back. Here is what I found out:

• I was backing up my SVN repository on my Mac Mini to a single .tar.gz file which I then copied across onto a USB disk attached to a Windows box. The file had grown unnoticed to >4GB in size. But the USB disk was in FAT format, which has a maximum file size of 4GB. The the file was quietly being truncated to 4GB and I couldn’t uncompress the file when I tried with gunzip.
• I was backing up from my Windows box to DVDs in ‘live’ format. These were not readable by my Mac mini, which would have been a problem if neither of my Windows boxes were working. I have now changed to ‘mastered’ format, which is readable by Windows and Mac.
• I was backing up the .mdf file my OnTime bug tracking database. It turns out you can’t just swap one .mdf file for another and re-start OnTime, as you get an internal consistency error. I am now creating and backing up .bak files, which you can restore.

I have lots of redundancy in my backups – backing up in multiple formats (files, SVN repository and Acronis disk images) to multiple media (multiple machines, USB disks, DVD and online). So none of the above would have spelt disaster. But it does bring home the importance of testing your backups from time to time and of having multiple forms of backup. If you think backing up to a single USB disk is enough you should read this. If you are relying purely on an third party online backup service you should consider what would happen if they went bankrupt – not inconceivable in the current economic climate.

Are you relying on a single backup strategy? When was the last time you tested your backups?

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Let it be known that I am the biggest male cheerleader (no pun intended) for this blog, and I fully support its aims. I read it regularly and find it to be empowering not just to women, but for the community at-large. We want to create a culture of community that practices full inclusion and equality, and there’s no better way to actively practice what we preach than by using this blog as a virtual meeting place to share our ideals. That’s why I’m ready to speak up and tell my story as an ally, in the hopes that it encourages more men to do their part in this fight.

This past Thursday night, I joined a group of friends at the Wonderland Ballroom in Columbia Heights, which is our local neighborhood bar. A few of us got hungry and decided to make a trip to the pupusa place next door for a quick bite, but when we got there, we saw that it was closed. Right as we were ready to turn around and head back to the bar, we saw a female about our age come stumbling out of the door. She was visibly drunk, and would have made an easy target for street crime.

Being a staunch male feminist/ally, I knew I needed to approach this woman in a way that didn’t freak her out — I know it’s still uncommon for women to find true feminist ideals in men these days, as sad as that sounds. So, I called out to my friends when she got close, “Hey y’all, it looks like this girl needs some help getting home.” One of my female friends heard this, saw the drunk woman, and immediately was like, “Hey love, do you want us to help get you home?” The bar patron was grateful to our kindness, and so about five of us joined her on her walk home down 11th Street NW.

Then, we saw a homeless man who called himself “Blelvis” and he began to walk beside us. He saw the girl in our group that was stumbling, and started to direct his attention toward her.

“You know what she needs, don’t you,” the man asked of me.

“She needs some of this.” He then proceeded to drop down to his knees and make a lewd movement with his tongue. I snapped back and told the man that he needed to get up off the floor and move along. Unfortunately, me speaking up right then didn’t exactly deter him.

“Blelvis” continued to follow us until we got to the young woman’s home, and as we waited for her to unlock her door safely, he dropped down to his knees again with the lewd tongue gyrations.

That’s when I finally reached my boiling point.

“Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you?” I let him know I was pissed at this point. “You don’t fucking do that in the presence of a woman you don’t even know.”

The man retorted something back and feigned like I had offended him — you know, like he wasn’t taking me very seriously.

“No, fuck that. It’s respect, dude. You need to have some fucking respect for women as people,” I tossed back. I then proceeded to spell out street harassment to him and why what he did was wrong.

Eventually, this guy got the hint and left us alone, but not before calling me out on my masculinity or something. I really didn’t care what he said about me, but I did care that he was continuing the cycle of oppression in the way he had complete disregard for women.

I’ve retold this story to several of my friends throughout the past weekend, and one of them encouraged me to post it to this blog. I wasn’t sure if I should post it here since I’m not a woman and I can’t even begin to relate what it must be like to be a woman enduring this heteronormative patriarchal society, but I want everyone out there to know that there are men like me who are standing up, speaking out, and doing something to holla back.

Submitted by Josef on 10/26/2009

Location: 11th and Lamont Streets NW

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It seems 2009 is the year of online outages.  All the major web-based email and collaboration providers have had some glitch or another with their systems.  That includes Google, Yahoo (today!), and Hotmail.

The fiasco with the Danger (T-Mobile Sidekick) units is another example of how people nearly lost all their important data.

It never hurts to have a backup of your data on a file on your computer.  Never.  And doing it takes less than 5 minutes.  In fact, you don’t even need to purchase a full version of CompanionLink to do it!

If you use Google, you can just download a 14-day CompanionLink evaluation version from our website and use it to back up your data to desktop software like Outlook, Lotus Notes or Palm Desktop.  You can also export it from there to a CSV file or other data format that you can save somewhere safe.