Losing one file on your computer can be annoying and inconvenient; losing all the information on your computer can be catastrophic. If you haven't given any thought to backing up your computer drives, you may want to consider doing so. Information on your computer can be lost in many ways. Experiencing a power surge or outage, lightening, a child playing on the keyboard or simply equipment failure are just a few of the causes.Your first step will be to decide what to backup. A good start would be to have a "laundry" list of the files you consider to be important. You will find that this list will also be valuable if you need to recover a single lost or damaged file. Some recommended files to backup would be financial information, family photos, personal projects, email and email addresses, your Internet bookmarks, any software that has been paid for and downloaded from the Internet, music downloads, business forms and letters, your .com web site, in reality, anything you do not want to loose or cannot replace.Next you will need to decide on a method to store this information.

Michael Pointer: Purdue Q&A

Question: When will the Purdue quarterback actually look off his primary receiver and go through his progressions? From what I saw Saturday, come-heck-or-high-water, Curtis Painter is going to throw to his primary, even if there is a crowd. And, on two of those interceptions, no Boiler receiver was in the area. I haven't seen anyone say that a receiver zigged when he should have zagged. Were those interceptions all on Painter? Quotes from coaches and Painter seem to suggest so. (Mike from Kokomo)

Answer: Mike, I have covered four quarterbacks since I've been on the Purdue beat: Brandon Hance, Kyle Orton, Brandon Kirsch and Painter. (I missed having the pleasure of covering Drew Brees.) I heard that complaint about everyone of them, including Orton, who had 31 touchdown passes and just five interceptions as a starter.

Debate takes on contentious air for U.S. Democrats

If anyone bothers to learn about the rise and fall of the political honeymoon of the just retired ex-President of South Korea, you will be astounded. President Roh was elected in 2002 by astonishing landslide. A relative new comer and novice administrator, Roh was supported mainly by enthusiastic young voters who were dying for "change" of all the old systems and old politics. Roh promised hope for change. They young supporters used all kinds of digital methods to urge each other to vote and spreading the message to all others to go out to vote. He won. The "conservatives" were shocked. He employed lots of so nicknamed "boy scouts" for his inner circle, all wide-eyed idealists who vowed to turn Korea upside down, inside out by trying to make changes. The result was miserable. Roh was even abandoned by his own ruling party which itself split into two different parties.

Charles Stross' dense stories have made him a Singularity sensation

It's the stories we tell each other for amusement and social bonding. I'm skeptical about assigning purpose to an artistic phenomenon, because it's something that, at bottom, we do for fun and communication. (When used for communication it may be used with serious intent, but that's far from being the main purpose of most SF.) Having said that, I do believe it's possible to insert interesting messages in fiction, and because fiction is viewed as a recreational activity this makes it possible to get them across to people who might not otherwise be receptive. It's called propaganda, and it can be used for political, social or religious purposes (for example, C.S. Lewis's Narnia books were explicitly conceived of as vehicles for Christian theology targeted at children of an impressionable age).

Green Mayonnaise

In a food processor fitted with the metal blade or a good blender, process the herbs and lemon juice with about 1/4 cup mayonnaise until well pureed. Add the remaining mayonnaise, salt and pepper and process to blend well. Transfer to a bowl, cover and chill several hours to allow the flavors to meld. Makes about 1 1/4 cups.

Per (1-tablespoon) serving: 81 calories, 98 percent calories from fat, 9 grams total fat, 1 gram saturated fat, 4 milligrams cholesterol, .17 gram carbohydrates, .03 gram total fiber, .03 gram total sugars, .13 gram net carbs, .06 gram protein, 60 milligrams sodium.

Time to Dump IE?

The tight ties to Windows means that the slightest IE security issue becomes an OS-wide panic. It's not just IE, either: Windows Media Player, Outlook Express, and even DirectX, are all, in my opinion, overly integrated and give hackers too much access to core PC functions.

Browsing the Alternatives
Despite dire predictions from Netscape (now a unit of America Online, which, weirdly, continues to bundle IE with its software), the market for non-Microsoft browsers didn't go away.

A weekend of voting - and shopping

You do not query the inequity of disenfranchising the hundreds of thousands of her supporters. A previous BBC article opined that if, by the time the convention is held, neither of the candidates has a clear majority, these delegates might well resolve any potential problem. This weekend's results were hardly unexpected and are not necessarily indicative of future voting patterns. If you saw "Sixty Minutes" on CBS, you will know that Mr Obama smiled a lot but said very little about what he would do as president, whereas Mrs Clinton was far more specific; there's none so blind as those who will not see! With regard to the Frank Rich column, a pity you did not link to Tad Devine's article in the same publication (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/opinion/10devine.html) in which he supports the notion of using super delegates, saying "Democratic leaders need to let the voters sort out which one of these two remarkable people will lead our party .