On today’s TechTuesday we are exploring the three most important rules of computing: Save! Save!! Save!!!
This one quarter I had a teacher that I felt needed a good dose of female companionship, if I may be so bold. He was a quiet yet uptight dude; quite an odd combination if you ask me. And his eccentricities knew no bounds. I distinctly remember coming into class one day as this professor, with his sweater vest pulled up exposing his small ghostly-white pot belly, was fishing for belly button lint. The point I’m trying to make is…the dude needed some real help.
With all that the man had going against him, he did teach me an important lesson: The Three Most Important Rules of Computing! All I have to say is this: imagine having the most important moments of a client’s life on a hard drive in your computer and the unthinkable happens! Yes, that’s right, your puppy has relieved himself on your laptop!! The first thing you think, besides how does something SO small produce SO much of something SO bad, is Oh MY GOD I hope my hard drive is ok!!!
This may be an unlikely scenario, but listen up: that’s the whole point!! The unlikely scenario WILL HAPPEN TO YOU BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T FOLLOW THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT RULES OF COMPUTING!!! Wow! I am feeling very emphatic today, evidently. Backing up your most critical data and the data that is used with that aforementioned data (confused yet) is so vital to a healthy digital life. You need a Safe Computing Strategy; an action plan for your digital life and its workflow. Please watch this video with one of my favorite photographers on this planet as he and his team describe in vivid detail just such a strategy:
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