Hard Lessons in the Importance of Backups: JournalSpace Wiped Out

A “Holy Crap” moment. I’ve never even heard of Journalspace, but – dang!

clipped from lifehacker.com

Blogging service JournalSpace has been completely wiped out after the drives that housed their entire database were overwritten.

The problem was that their backups weren’t actually backups at all. The servers were set up with a mirrored RAID [...]

links for 2009-01-07

Doctors Warn: Wii Puts 10 In Hospital a Week
Yeah, I think I have "Wii Pinball Finger"
(tags: wii sports injuries injury knee)

Horizon DataSys
System snapshots – better than System Restore
(tags: pc recovery windows os mirror snapshot restore technotebook)

Drive Snapshot – Disk Image Backup for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/X64
Make a copy of your hard drive – like Ghost.
(tags: drive imaging [...]

Doctors Warn: Wii Puts 10 In Hospital a Week

Yeah, I think I have “Wii Pinball Finger”

clipped from www.foxnews.com

Up to ten people a week are being hospitalized with injuries caused by playing Nintendo Wii games, prompting doctors in Britain to issue warnings of the dangers associated with the video game system.

“There has been a 100 percent increase in patients complaining of [...]