Data is not safe if it exists in only one place. The only feasible way to back up a large hard drive is with another large hard drive. If either drive--main drive or your backup--dies, you need to replace it ASAP because as long as one is out of commission, there is only one good copy of your data. Therefore, for every hard drive you own, you need to have a) another drive of equal or greater capacity, and b) enough money in the bank (or available credit) to replace it when needed.

Apple is making it harder and harder to get your hands on their precious movie files, but it's possible. You just have to know a few tricks.

Boot Camp is very cool, as is Parallels, but tech writers crack me up.

Here's a short tutorial of how to format video clips for some cell phones. Specifically, this covers how to make a very low quality movie that will play on phones like my Nokia 6820.

A few days after SGI was delisted, I stumbled across an old (1994) article about SGI while I was poking around in one of my favorite places, the Wired archive.

I heard about this a loooong time ago and finally got around to reading it. The first chapter is thoroughly entertaining and I expect the rest are just as good. It's a story about a Mac technician in New York who helps the police solve a murder. I'm not sure how long it will be or when it will be finished but it is free and available here.