google.com<\/a> and others) are out of
\n my control. They are important to my lifestyle and knowledge base – but
\n they are fragile again and can disappear in an instant.<\/p>\nTo those of us dependent on out extended memories this is a very disturbing
\n thought.<\/p>\n
So I burn it to CD-ROM. Lots and lots of stuff. All the e-mail, most
\n of my mailing lists, gigabytes of images. I also routinely grab copies
\n of entire websites and stuff them on CD-ROM. Usually I update those copies
\n every month or two. <\/p>\n
To me and many computer types I know this is simple common sense. If
\n it’s important to you, back it up locally!<\/p>\n
To those who wonder WHY I would care about, say, Dominion posts going
\n back years the answer is how would you feel if I just vaporized a big
\n chunk of your memory – even if it was ‘silly’ data you didn’t need. Would
\n you voluntarily let me amputate part of your brain that way?<\/p>\n
I doubt it.<\/p>\n
I am used to being able to all my major communications and conversations
\n in a short period of time going back most of my entire life. Where most
\n people aren’t used to that – I am. I am very used to being able to instantly
\n pull up even the most vaguely remembered letter to an old friend or an
\n argument I had with someone 10 years ago.<\/p>\n
You might not be, but many of those I know in my generation have never
\n known it any other way. We simply assume that we will always be able to
\n access all our data. <\/p>\n
Not just current data.<\/p>\n
But EVERY item of data we have EVER had access to.<\/p>\n
So I back it all up – and not for any reason as shallow as to win an
\n argument with someone on a mailing list who couldn’t be convinced of the
\n truth if they saw themselves on video tape saying whatever it was. I back
\n it all up because it is all part of my mind in a way. I depend on it,
\n and it lets me do some truly amazing things with my cognitive skills.<\/p>\n
I would not voluntarily give that up.<\/p>\n
I am rereading1984<\/a>
\n at the moment, and the point is very clear. If >you< don’t control
\n an independent copy of history, you are at the mercy of those who do.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nThanks for reading \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
sometimes I am so damn eloquent – or sumthin’ I know, I know, a big day for blogging. But I am trying to just put this stuff here instead of leave myself little notes to do it sometime in the future. It seems to be helping. In any case, on one of the mailing lists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}