Small businesses can use tech to save money

I've been sort of neglecting this blog for a bit while I teach myself Ruby on Rails, Applescript and relearn all the CSS and XHTML I forgot while doing 'management things'. Forgot how much fun it is to write code.

Anyway, to tide things over, here's a link to an interesting Mashable article on SuSMETA type topics. Says much the same thing I've been saying for at least the last couple of years.
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Crashplan

Whoa, there, let's backup a bit.

Okay, bad pun.

Seriously, though, backup is something everyone should take very seriously and almost no one does. Ironically, the people who should back up the most diligently, i.e., the non-geeks, are the ones who almost never do so.

Backups are painful to do, take time, space, cosmic energy and are no fun. Until your hard drive crashes and you lose all those photos of grandma on the rollercoaster.

Enter Crashplan.

Crashplan

Important pricing information:
Free, as in no money required. Or, as low as $5 p.m., but read the fine print.

You need:
An internet connection, preferably one that's always on while your computer is on. And a suitable lead time for the first backup - if you have lots of data, it could be running (auto) for several days. A local disk is faster but is not an offsite backup.

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