#backup your data

Gosh I've been slow on updates, sorry everyone!! For those who weren't aware, my computer had a bad crash right after Thanksgiving. It was misdiagnosed as a corrupt motherboard, but ended up being worse: the SSD completely failed.

Most of my work was on it, and you can fill in the picture from there.

I've had the SSD sent to a recovery expert who will hopefully be able to get information off, but no guarantee. This has slowed down progress tremendously, but I was able to recover the script for "New Roads." In addition, I had some major projects to finish up with ASR, and with job hunting being such a mess right now, "New Roads" was sort of sidelined. Fortunately, the latest release has been colored, and will be lettered soon, and we'll be working on Part 6 shortly after (as we want to have a bit of pre-prepared material before the next release.

There is more on the horizon, so to keep this short and not a big life-blog, here are the TLDR Updates:

-New Roads #3 Part 5: Coming Soon

-New Roads #3 Part 6: Begins development soon

-New Roads #2 Dub: Half of the dialog record (since we're no longer splitting into 2 parts,) however we're awaiting the response for a certain member.

-New Roads #1 Dub: Original poster closed most of their channel. They sent me files, but I'll need to re-recover them, then find a host channel, or make one.

-Medieval Madness: Mostly recovered, script lost (but only lost dialog, I remember what was left to create,) inks and colors will begin soon, few pages left to pencil

Backup your data.

Backup your data.

Backup your data.

You don't want to be like me and come home to find your desktop doesn't start and 2 or 3 projects in progress are in limbo!

I have spent the entire duration of the pandemic keeping a couple of spreadsheets with nearly daily data for Covid-19 infections and deaths. I had line graphs and everything. March 2020 through December 2021. One sheet for Massachusetts and one for the entire United States. Last night I accidentally deleted them both. Oops. Dumb ass. Always back up your shit, kids. Always back up your shit.

Why you need to backup your data

If your data is important to you, you need to backup your data.

Okay people, lets forget for a moment I own a business which owns a lot of hard drives, this is a bit of friendly advice on storing your files/photos and videos and why it’s important to backup your data.

Lets be honest Hard drives do not last forever! Like everything they break over time and some manufacturers/models are more prone…

(via How To Back Up Your Data On Windows 7, 8 & Windows 10 PC - Tech Uploads)

As promised, resources! 

To crosspost to Dreamwidth from Tumblr using IFTT (this has been around a while, but IFTT requires programming skills I didn’t have, so it’s nice someone actually assembled the program for me)

To import an entire Tumblr to Wordpress (For archival purposes primarily)

I feel like people maybe flipped out a little more than necessary, so I want to remind everyone that Yahoo tends to beat websites to death and then leave their corpses in the street -- Del.icio.us was an anomaly in that respect -- so it’s not like Tumblr’s going to disappear tomorrow. If Yahoo sells Tumblr we’ll hear about it first and have time to take appropriate measures. 

(Who the fuck would buy Tumblr? Microsoft. Microsoft, owner of Bing, would buy Tumblr.)

That said, BACKING STUFF UP IS A GOOD IDEA. BACK UP YOUR SHIT. DO IT, LISTEN TO YOUR INTERNET FATHER. You know when I learned this? When in 2008 my livejournal was hacked and I lost five years of my life. I resurrected about 80%, and you know where that 80% came from? Google cache, Archive.org, and notification emails people happened to have saved. BACKUPS. And even then I had to copy and paste every post and repost it backdated. It took me eight months. 

When del.icio.us was sold, data was lost, but more importantly, the data that remained had to be moved, which was when I discovered that about a quarter of the fanfics I’d bookmarked were now deleted, locked, or otherwise missing (this was pre-AO3 but fanfics can be deleted from AO3, and they can be deleted from Tumblr). I rescued a few from archive.org but I also lost a good number, which is why I use Evernote to archive not just the URLs but the stories themselves.  

No technology is infallible, unhackable, virus-proof, or incorruptible. Back up your hard drive, or at least the parts with your favorite music and family photos. Back up your tumblr, or at least the entries that are important to you. Love that fanfic? Save a copy of it. 

You know what happens to people who don’t back up their shit? They get sanctimonious but ultimately correct lectures from Reed Richards.  

How to Hide Data (Images, Videos, Files) In Your Smartphone

Well, today everyone owns a smartphone and keep it close to themselves all the time. Smartphone keeps all your stuff including photos, videos, messages and other data just in one place and also protect it from others.

Sometimes, our friends or siblings take our phone for watching a video, listening to music, calling or any other purpose. You might want to share the phone for sometime but you…