First of all events have reinforced the need to do something we all know we should do but few of us bother too, back-up important files. Shortly after writing last week’s blog Dropbox suffered an outage due to some technical difficulties (Not hackers as was suggested at the time). Dropbox is a great little tool I’ve use for couple of years now to keep important files synchronised across various devices and locations without having to worry about carrying external hard drives with me or the ever present risk of losing a memory stick/thumb drive. So imagine my horror when the Dropbox app stopped syncing my files across my devices! The good news is that when it does sync with my PC/Laptop, it always leaves a local copy on the device so even if the service/internet connection is down you still have access to your file. Still the message is clear if a file is important to you however you access it, where ever store it, always back it up on a regular basis.
Secondly I’ve recently acquired a taste for jalapeno peppers which has led to some strange dreams of late. The latest was that I went on a hike with my parents (both sadly departed for a number of years now) to discover the source of the River Olney which as it turned out was in the kitchen of a house a couple of doors up from the one I grew up in. To fully appreciate how bizarre this dream is you need to know that Olney is a small market town in the south-east of England on the River Great Ouse famous for its annual pancake race dating back to 1445 and a popular location for wild swimming and my childhood home was a terraced house in central Birmingham (Google Onley, Milton Keynes and the UK Post Code B16 8BA to see what I mean).
Oh yes and I nearly forgot amidst all this I’ve just about added another chapter to Exiles.