OddThinking

Failures happen.

Computer have been getting better at handling failures and making it easier to recover. The industry has tackled all of the big issues.

• If my hard-drive fails, my RAID system will ensure my data is not lost.
• If my machine burns to the ground, my off-site backups restrict the amount of data I can lose.
• If the power fails or the operating system crashes, most of my applications will have auto-saved to temporary files, so not much data is lost.
• If I type the wrong key-sequence, most of my applications support multi-level Undo, so no data is lost.
• If I forget a password, my Password Safe database will remind me.
• If I quit from an application without saving, most of my applications will prompt me to save my file.

That brings me to what I suspect is my biggest remaining risk for data loss….

When I am prompted whether I want to save a file before quitting, I might have a braino, and type ‘N’ when I mean ‘Y’.

It doesn’t catch me often, but when it does… Ugh!