Can't live with 'em, etc.
After the recent meltdown of my computer, I decided that I really should make it easier to recover data if something like that happens again (practically a certainty at one point, no?).
The biggest loss, aside from my recipe file, is always one's address book, which takes so long to gather and get right. I have webmail with my webserver account, but I don't like the way it works. I'm not wild about Wanadoo's online mail either, so I decided to go for the paying version of Yahoo, or as it is known around here: YaPoop and The Big Poop. Probably unfair, as you DO get a lot of free stuff from them.
The nice thing about their Mail Plus service is that you don't have any ads; a major bonus with any online service. And, it's pretty cheap: $20 for a full year. For me, the big positive though, was that once I imported what remained of my Thunderbird address book, it was permanently stored online and I will never lose it again.
The theory was perfect. Except that yesterday, the Poop was down! For part of the day, I managed to find a backdoor workaround into my mailbox, but at the end of the afternoon, even that went south; very annoying, to be honest. Of course, the Catch 22 is that to write to their customer service department and, more particularly to receive a response, you NEED TO BE ABLE TO GET TO YOUR EMAIL!
Luckily, by this morning, all was back to normal. Clearly there was a server or router problem somewhere along the line, but it does point out that with computers, as with life, there ain't nothin' that's perfect!
In the meantime, I found a nice, inexpensive backup software that allows me to do automatic, off-site backup, as well as backing up to CDs, DVDs, etc. Once the initial major backup was done, it takes hardly any time at all to operate and, I should never lose more than a few hours worth of work again.
Now, on to Chalabre. Yesterday morning when we opened up our copy of the Dépêche and turned to the Limoux/Pays section, imagine our surprise to see a big article on JM's diaporama at the bibliotheque last week! It was a very nice piece, well reported, and there was a picture of us and some of the audience. I need to look at it again, to see if Diva Maggie got her fifteen-minutes of fame.
Ciao for now.
Randy
The biggest loss, aside from my recipe file, is always one's address book, which takes so long to gather and get right. I have webmail with my webserver account, but I don't like the way it works. I'm not wild about Wanadoo's online mail either, so I decided to go for the paying version of Yahoo, or as it is known around here: YaPoop and The Big Poop. Probably unfair, as you DO get a lot of free stuff from them.
The nice thing about their Mail Plus service is that you don't have any ads; a major bonus with any online service. And, it's pretty cheap: $20 for a full year. For me, the big positive though, was that once I imported what remained of my Thunderbird address book, it was permanently stored online and I will never lose it again.
The theory was perfect. Except that yesterday, the Poop was down! For part of the day, I managed to find a backdoor workaround into my mailbox, but at the end of the afternoon, even that went south; very annoying, to be honest. Of course, the Catch 22 is that to write to their customer service department and, more particularly to receive a response, you NEED TO BE ABLE TO GET TO YOUR EMAIL!
Luckily, by this morning, all was back to normal. Clearly there was a server or router problem somewhere along the line, but it does point out that with computers, as with life, there ain't nothin' that's perfect!
In the meantime, I found a nice, inexpensive backup software that allows me to do automatic, off-site backup, as well as backing up to CDs, DVDs, etc. Once the initial major backup was done, it takes hardly any time at all to operate and, I should never lose more than a few hours worth of work again.
Now, on to Chalabre. Yesterday morning when we opened up our copy of the Dépêche and turned to the Limoux/Pays section, imagine our surprise to see a big article on JM's diaporama at the bibliotheque last week! It was a very nice piece, well reported, and there was a picture of us and some of the audience. I need to look at it again, to see if Diva Maggie got her fifteen-minutes of fame.
Ciao for now.
Randy
2 Comments:
Dear Randy,
Since over an year now I use googlemail.com and I am very happy with it, because its for free, nearly no spam,
and a mega lot of space.
If you would like to test it, I could invite you.
Heinz from Germany
By Anonymous, At 4:54 PM
Thanks, Heinz.
I actually have a googlemail account that I almost never use, mostly because of all the ads that come with it!
Now that Yahoo is back up to speed, I'm quite happy again!
Randy
By Randy, At 6:03 PM
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