Comments on: The Best Laid Plans… http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/the-best-laid-plans/ Sat, 25 May 2013 22:54:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JISC Beginner's Guide to Digital Preservation » Blog Archive » Preserving your Emails http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/the-best-laid-plans/#comment-2729 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:21:01 +0000 http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/?p=3648#comment-2729 [...] Personally I continue to use Hotmail when out-of-work but I have no back up plan and the loss of my messages would be fairly devestating. Even losing my phone contacts left me in a pickle. [...]

]]> By: remote working http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/the-best-laid-plans/#comment-2631 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:15:17 +0000 http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/?p=3648#comment-2631 Any business who does not have a strategy for employee remote working should really take a look at the options out there since they can save a business thousands of money, and reduce the turnover of employees who leave a company due to travel costs and effort

]]> By: Hazel Edmunds http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/the-best-laid-plans/#comment-2618 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:15:34 +0000 http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/?p=3648#comment-2618 Commiserations! A sprain hurts worse than a simple fracture – just don’t make the mistake I did and overdose on the painkillers!

]]> By: Ant Davies http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/the-best-laid-plans/#comment-2603 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:54:27 +0000 http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/?p=3648#comment-2603 Sounds like you’ve had a tough week! Hope the ankle gets better soon. I water damaged my phone last year dropping it down the toilet! Apparently it’s the top way phones get wrecked. I dried it all out before I turned it on but still no joy. I’ve now got phone insurance!

Hope you get sorted out soon.

Ant

]]> By: mariekeguy http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/the-best-laid-plans/#comment-2602 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:24:23 +0000 http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/?p=3648#comment-2602 Yes that’s the key, but I bet a lot of people make back ups and hardly any keep them outside the house.

Blimey this is a depressing post!

]]> By: Peter Barnes http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/the-best-laid-plans/#comment-2601 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:20:56 +0000 http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/?p=3648#comment-2601 BTW, keep the external hard drive somewhere other than your home between backups. Otherwise, if there is a disaster such as a fire you lose all your data. Cloud based backups are another option, though I’d still keep my backup just in case…

]]> By: mariekeguy http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/the-best-laid-plans/#comment-2600 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:20:02 +0000 http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/?p=3648#comment-2600 Peter – you may force me to post a picture of my foot! ;-)

]]> By: Peter Barnes http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/the-best-laid-plans/#comment-2599 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:16:41 +0000 http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/?p=3648#comment-2599 Hmm, sounds like a tactical injury to me ;-)

]]> By: Philip http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/the-best-laid-plans/#comment-2598 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:44:12 +0000 http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/?p=3648#comment-2598 Marieke,

Hi. I read your blog from time to time and knew about the varnish incident, but not about the phone and your ankle. My commiserations. I know someone (nameless!)who dropped a phone in water recently, and foolishly switched it on to see if it was still working. Instant short circuit, though the water hadn’t got into the battery compartment at all.

I’ve got old address books going back to schooldays. Quite a mine of information! I can’t imagine throwing them out. The portable HD is a really good idea, and you won’t regret it.

I hope the ankle gets itself sorted soon, and that you escape old phone hell as quickly as possible!

]]> By: mariekeguy http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/the-best-laid-plans/#comment-2597 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:52:10 +0000 http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/?p=3648#comment-2597 Thanks Monica and Felix.

Hopefully my DIY disaster (2.5 litres of brown varnish on sisal hall flooring – currently waiting on insurance mandate) counts towards the 3 even though it was in 2010. Am starting to feel very accident prone!

Had a good chat with some friends about personal digital preservation over the holidays. Now that I’m digitalising my vinyl collection I really want to make sure everything is backed up. Intend to get myself an external hard drive to store everything on asap.

I have a big pile of address books that stretch back over 20 years. I keep wondering if I should throw them out but always think I might need them one day, and I’m probably right!

Have a great school reunion/wedding!

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