I’m usually on my laptop when I post my blog entry or my podcast. But today, I’m not. I using my work computer now. My hard drive in my laptop died yesterday.

I’m not sure how many of you reading this actually backup your information on your hard drive?

I didn’t use to. I just started doing that about 6 months ago. And boy, was I lucky. I skipped a month when I went back to Malaysia, and I’m a couple of months behind. But at least, something is there for me to back to. If my hard drive were to die 6 months ago, I would be banging my head into the wall!

I also backup my data file to my address book, browser bookmarks and settings, and my Quicken data file everyday through my iDisk (.Mac service by Apple), so those items were backed up, as current as February 14th. Phew!

It will still be a hassle when my computer comes back from the shop. But at least, I’m not starting from scratch.

Three words of advice: “Backup, backup, backup.”