In Protecting Your Work I promote a free backup program called Syncback. It’s still my favorite and I still use it several times a day. Although the interface presents more options than most people would ever use, it’s extremely simple to set up and use.
February 2009
I know this is one of those burning questions that’s on most everyone’s mind, but no-one wants to spend the $10 to find out. Or look it up on Google.
Well, no need. I dropped a flash-drive on the floor this afternoon and it cracked open to reveal its secrets. When I tried to put it back together, it fell into 3 pieces. When I thought I almost had it back together it fell into 4 pieces. Four pieces without an instruction manual. Well, I thought, nothing for it now except to start taking pictures.
It’s mid-February. In Canada. It’s been winter for a really really long time. I’m a little short on sleep. Also a little short on daylight. I think we’re supposed to sleep in the winter, but it never happens at my house. About this time of year I start thinking if I’m going to do my winter hibernation, I’d better get to it, it’s almost Spring.
Off to a rocky start with Dropbox, but I’ve got it now. Uploading, syncing and sharing files is what this is about. You download and install a small file that makes a folder on your computer called My Dropbox. It fits right in with My Pictures and My Videos in Windows XP. It also works on Mac and Linux.
For awhile it was looking like Renee Zamora and I might be cousins. She descends from a Harris family in New York, and so do I. Same county, 1700′s. The odds were fair to middlin’.
A Harris cousin of mine got one of our Harris boys to take a DNA test for the paternal lineage. That wasn’t easy. He had some fear that his DNA would be used to clone him in the future. When he finally admitted it, my cousin snapped back, “Who would want to clone you? You’re 70 years old!”
So she got her sample, sent it off to the lab and got back the results which knocked out every theory we’ve held dear so far. Seems our closest match had an ancestor in South Carolina.
Ancestry doesn’t mention cloning … hmmm … Read the fine print. They say they offer ‘complimentary’ storage but they don’t offer ‘secure’ storage. Hello?
The actual numbers are unknown to anyone except Google but there are guesses. How many searches are done on Google every day? The guesses range from 200 million to 10 billion. And a very, very … very small percentage of those searches lead to this website.
But nevertheless my own statistics are interesting … to me. The most popular Google search queries, by far, leading to JLog in 2008 were:
