AshesFromStars

For some reason I’m sitting on my brother’s computer playing poker instead of sleeping. I went to my bed at around 4am this morning, got up at 6am for work and have just got in the door about a half hour ago at midnight. That means I was out the house for 18 hours, worked for 14 and waited 4 hours for my mum to finish work in the take-away for a lift home. It’d have taken me about 2 hours to get home so I was aswell waiting and saving £2.00 in bus fare. I actually had quite a good time waiting with her in work, trying to come up with new ideas of the take-away’s menu. So far I’m convinced the owner to add Pizza Crunch suppers and Steak Pie suppers to the menu. Pizza Crunch suppers are such a Scottish thing, one soft-based pizza with cheese and sliced tomato, deep fat fried in sausage batter and coated in salt & vinegar, in between a buttered Morton’s roll. Best, thing, ever. I don’t even want to think about the calories that thing has but mmmm it’s good!

For most of the weekend (when I’ve not been reading), I’ve been working on this site a lot, in case you hadn’t noticed. There’s a new layout, some new content and I’ve deleted some stuff too. Since I’ve been at the boyfriend’s all weekend (I work when he’s sleeping, I’ve gotten it down to survining on about 4hrs sleep a night these days), everything that I’d done was saved to his computer which I obviously can’t access when I’m at home on the other side of town.

As I didn’t have my external HDD with me, there was only two ways that I could make sure I could use the files that I’d created over the course of the weekend - ZIP them like nobody’s business and email them to myself, thus taking time and effort on my part. Plus, I wasn’t too sure if I’d have enough room in my email inbox for this to work. The second way of getting the files was using an Online Storage facilty, like IBackup. I’m currently trying them out on their free 15 day trial, but so far the service they offer has been great so I’ll probably go with their 5GB per month for $9.99 price plan. Since I have bad experience with laptops and drives dying on me, knowing that I have a backup online of all my important documents and files is worth the small price!

Within about 10 minutes I’d uploaded the files to their server via a really easy to use program, knowing that I could access my files from home and download them to my laptop here. Since I’ve gotten home I’ve uploaded a bunch of important files that I really cannot afford to loose if my laptop drives ever decide to die (ie my CV, a collective list of all the CDs I own (starting from 11 years ago - trust me I don’t want to loose this!), a list of business contacts I’ve made through web designing and a bunch of other stuff.) I love the fact that you can organize a backup of selected files to automatically happen - it means I can backup important files once a week without having to remember to do it, which is a must when I’m working on new projects!

So now I’m sitting here, instead of sleeping, working on more updates for the site - which I wouldn’t have been able to do without online storage solutions! I’d recommend this to anyone who wants to keep backups of important files.