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2 April 2003

We finally got around to getting a tape drive to backup all our stuff here in our office. We keep adding more and more computers with various amounts of storage, but have been limited to CDR for backup. That was kinda making us uneasy, because it’s not really practical to have scheduled backups running to CDR. We were performing ad-hoc backups, probably not frequently enough. So now we have a nice tape drive and a schedule and everything. It’s not quite the 30 tape system that I run at work, but it’s fit for purpose.

The installation process was complicated by wretched Microsoft. As I had to take the server down, I took the opportunity to install a batch of critical security updates (which require a reboot). Big mistake. A nasty bug in one of the updates rendered by server unusable – it wouldn’t boot into Windows even in safe mode. Google Groups provided the fix, but I really could have done without that. The sooner I can move away from Microsoft crap, the better.

- Drew McLellan

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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