Remember backups!

Take two minutes to consider whether you have important data which you couldn't live without - and think of how you are treating them.

All the time, there are newspaper stories about people who lose all-important data. Today, there is a story in Nettavisen about Norwegian chess professional Kjetil Lie whose laptop was stolen. The news story says:

"And of course, the back-up-CD was in the PC bag."

Years of analyses of games are, supposedly, lost.

You can be unlucky and lose minutes of work. I do that all the time. To lose years of work (especially when it is easily copyable work) is plain silly.