I finally got around to actually doing something about my computer's security. I have realized for quite some time that hard drives are finite entities that can and do die. Now I have decided that when that happens to me, I don't want it to matter. At the advice of Oliver Gassner I have signed up for service at mozy.com. Since I have almost 10 gigs of stuff on my harddrive (mostly photos; a lot of it from sites-of-memory.de), I opted immediately for their "unlimited" service at $5 per month. It will now continuously and automatically keep another version of everything on my harddrive in an earthquake-secure vault in Utah.

It feels good to have taken action before something happens.