A Public Service Announcement (Zoë)

Have you ever stopped to think about all those important files on your computer? The research notes you’ve been taking for your final essays. The brainstorms, and the plans. A whole semester’s worth of summarised lecture notes you’ve taken care to type up after every lecture. Your collection of music and photos. Your resume. The clips from the zombie movie your class made in year 11.

Take a moment to stroll down memory lane as you scroll through your documents folder. Then back it up. Copy your most precious documents to your USBs, or burn them to CDs, or even just email them to yourselves so they can circle endlessly in cyberspace. Just back them up. Hard drives know when it’s exam time. They sit, and they watch, and then when the going gets tough, they get themselves out of there as fast as they can. Mine’s in hard drive heaven on a banana lounge thinking “Phew! That was close! I almost had to go through another set of exams and essays.”

Please, gentle readers. Back up your files.