I am pretty obsessive about backing up my work on the computer.  My Mac makes that easy because it backs up every hour to an external backup drive.  Now that I’m using Pages as my main writing tool, I also back up to iCloud.  I have a USB stick that I used to carry work in progress now, but now it’s just another backup.  Of course the USB stick is backed up to the external hard drive too.  And I’ve written a script that backs up my iCloud work (which is automatically backed up on my iMac and my Macbook) to Dropbox. Today I went out and bought a backup drive just for my Macbook.  It’s a cute little half-terrabyte drive.  By my count, that’s nine copies of my files.  Yep, I’m pretty obsessive about it.  Oh, I forgot.  I also have them on my iPhone and iPad and I back up both of those regularly!

I also like my computer running at peak condition too, so even though the Mac almost never gets a virus ( I have found 1 trojan downloader in the year I’ve had it) I run Kaspersky on it.

Speaking of backup drives… As I mentioned, I bought a WD 500gb drive today at Best Buy for $59.00.  I think back to the first hard drive I ever bought– for my Amiga about 1985.  It was $749.00 and it was twice as big as any my friends had, a whopping 40mb.  That’s right megabytes.  Not terabytes.  Not gigabytes.  Megabytes.  So, how come I don’t have my robot and my flying car yet?