Hmmm. September eleven. Why does that date sound familiar? Lessee. one of my relative's birthdays? Did I forget to buy a gift again? No that wasn't it. Must be something else...

Speaking of fail-safe. The moment of truth is near. Finally got the Unix server into a state of zen once again. But this is the server which carries a legacy - I've got records of most everything I've typed into a CPU for the last twenty years or so. Software (about 300 different programs), emails, you name it. Probably still have some newsfeeds from when I was telling Marc Andreessen about the limitations of image tags on picture data. But that drive went up in smoke. No problem. I've still got the original hard drives and an interface that can read them. Nyah, nyah. And I've got tape backups in two locations with interfaces and software that can read them. But being smug once doesn't prevent future disasters. It's less nyah, nyah and a little bit more whew.....

In fact I had been preparing to migrate this data onto CD-ROM, which would ensure its survival another five years or so. Didn't happen. I've one more chance.