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I have been roaming around online today, doing research for a number of different projects. In my travels, I found this fun and informative video:

This has been one of those weeks (or three!)

Fortunately, I am a Kentucky Trade client.

Freddy and Maria took good care of me, but there were several glitches, including needing a new hard drive, a need to reset my wireless router, and later on, a new fan. The good news is that my desktop and laptop are best friends again. The better news is that no data was lost!

I did lose work time because the files I needed were sitting up in Lexington, but that’s life.

I am now slowly reinstalling my software. I have a lot of small specialty programs and trying to track them down and install them has been a chore. One thing I had been doing, which has simplified things is to download all programs into a specific folder, so with many of these, I can just find it there and then install.

Now I am also taking the time to save the programs I do install (before installation) in a folder designated *Installed programs*. I think that it will make things a lot more efficient the next time I do this.

One good thing I had done was designate a special place to save my Thunderbird and FireFox setting, so restoration was pretty simple with those.

I will be working on additional backup strategies. I was lucky this time but I want to make the odds in my favor even better for next time!

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