Home Backup Policies

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »

At my house, we have about 8 total computers running at any given time: a Media Center PC (media) a storage server (luna) 5 personal computers 1 or 2 work laptops I needed a way to backup all of the data that is spread out over all of the computers, but I also couldn't dedicate a single machine to only be for backups. The following system works for me, but it definitely could be improved, so keep that in mind when designing your own ...

Why do we share so much about ourselves online?

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Technology | No Comments »

My mom recently (earlier tonight) asked if I had Google'd myself recently. Being the tech-geek I am, I had done so within the last few weeks. She was amazed to find all of my "away messages" and "personal" information at the top of the search results. She questioned me about why I shared so much and she didn't think it was a good idea. I tried to briefly explain but it just didn't make sense to ...