Blogging will probably be light to non-existent until this evening as my laptop crashed and won't reboot. Fortunately I have a higher capacity replacement drive on the shelf that I was going to install anyways.

The existing drive seems functional, so its probably a case of corrupt system files. This would be an opportune time to engage in a rant about the deficiencies of Microsoft Windows, but the fact is that this stuff has happened with my old macs and on my linux boxes as well.

What amazes me after over twenty years of PCs, is that we still don't have a truly efficient back-up system. Sure, you can use tape, mirrored drives and the like, but that's never been practical for laptops. I want a non-volatile backup medium that runs unobtrusively in the background, sucks up no processor or memory resources, is removable and consists of both disk image and individual fles (that can be tagged for automatic backup). it should weigh next to nothing and add no more than a hundred bucks to the price of a laptop.

Think you can handle that?

Let me know if you "know a guy"...