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You either need backups or lawyers, maybe both

Biz

They say that a big part of creating a backup system is testing its ability to recover your files if there’s a failure. Well, Business 2.0 learned a valuable lesson when they lost their magazine’s latest issue and found their backup system wasn’t up to the task of recovering it. Luckily, the lawyers had a copy of every article (presumably to approve every use of the term “nappy”) and saved the day.

I’ll refrain from any lawyer jokes.

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I love Seth's quote at the top. I think that's my new motto.. ; )

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Griping about OS X Lion? Here's two nifty tools that replace a variety of poorly supported third party tools: Command-line and Automator access to video and audio conversion. Super easy to use, and very flexible and supports any format that Quicktime can encode/decode. (So Perian is a must-install if you want to handle DivX/3viX, etc.)

Yes, ffmpeg, Handbrake and... >
Fix Google Reader's horrible new interface with this user script! Now it fits nicely on my MacBook's small screen. >
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What makes this ad awesome is not the true-to-life irony, because the idea is hardly innovative, but rather the excellent execution. Reminds me a bit of that excellent Nutri-Grain spec commercial. Quick delivery, good actors, hit all the high notes. Love it. >

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