It’s frightening how many people don’t do any computer backup at all. If their computer crashes, they lose it all.

This happened to a friend of mine a while ago. He spent months working on an e-book that he wanted to market, his computer crashed, and the e-book was gone!

Having a “backup and restore” system in place is absolutely crucial if you have files that you really don’t want to lose, like a school project or music or photos of the kids, or an e-book… Who of us don’t have such files?

I am a happy user of a free online backup service that is saving me a lot of trouble! Let me tell you about it…

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Personally, I run Ubuntu Linux on my desktop and laptop computers, but my wife runs Windows XP (SP3) on her desktop. Thanks to XP, over the past 7 days, I had the distinct (dis)pleasure of having to deal with the FakeRean trojan and the TDL3 rootkit that it installs.

This whole exercise was an incredibly frustrating experience, but I eventually managed to get the problem solved. So I decided to document my experiences here to hopefully prevent you from also damning those virus writers to hell!

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I had a recent conversation with a friend about Twitter followers, how to gain followers, and how to handle new followers.

Is it important to have lots of followers? How do you go about getting more followers on Twitter? Do you follow back all your new followers?

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Despite running into issues from time to time, I am a big fan of Ubuntu Linux!

I started out with Ubuntu version 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) and made my way up to Hardy Heron (8.04). Then I stuck with Hardy Heron until after Intrepid Ibex (8.10) and Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) were released. Hardy Heron was a LTS (long term support) release and I liked that it was so stable.

Then Ubuntu Karmic Koala was released on Oct 29, 2009 and I decided it was time to upgrade.

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Make-A-Website-With-Traffic.com
Is Now Running On WordPress

After running Make-A-Website-With-Traffic.com on a different platform for all of its existence, I decided to switch it over to run on WordPress instead. Here’s why I did it, and what it took to get the job done…

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