My Mac is diligently burning CD-Rs of all my current stuff before I wipe my drive. I'm making a copy of everything for off-site sotrage while I keep another copy here for near-line access...

I'm finally cracking down on responsibility for my own data. You can cut crime, you can buy car insurance, and you can wear kneepads when you rollerblade, but there's nothing like redundant multi-site daily (okay okay, weekly) backups of your critical data for making sure your data, or lack thereof, doesn't come back and bite you badly.

Oh, by the way, the disk crash took down the last four months of emails, and while my previous paranoia resulted in my having about 80% of them on a seperate unix machine, I've lost a bunch of email addresses, and will probably only dive into those email logs to grep specific data as needed, so if you've written to me in the last month or two and were awaiting a reply, please write me again!

Right now I'm copying the CD-Rs that I burned, before I reformat the drive. As it turns out, one of the CD-Rs was corrupt already, so my paranoia has already paid off.

Damn I wish CD-Rs were faster. I have Photoshop work to do.