Motorists get more than they bargained for

12Feb09

It seems as though a fine isn’t the only thing people have to worry about when they get a parking ticket – there might be a computer virus on the way too.

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Learning from my mistakes

09Feb09

Data recovery from a busted hard drive is expensive. The good news is it can be recovered – bad news is it will cost you. In this case I think I’m going to have to just suck it up and be more careful about backing up the back-up in future.

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Hard drive goes *boom*

29Jan09

Oh the irony. Less than a week after writing about how data loss is expected to affect an increasing number of people this year, my external hard drive gave up the ghost. All those stern talking-tos I’ve given about backing up the backup, and I hadn’t quite got around to it myself. Fingers crossed I […]

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