Servers die, hard drives die, disks degrade, formats change. Paper still has its uses.
Your mother can help — and other hints.
Letter from Hardscrabble Creek
A Pagan Studies Blog by Chas S. Clifton
Servers die, hard drives die, disks degrade, formats change. Paper still has its uses.
Your mother can help — and other hints.
“the laws of thermodynamics are against you.”
What an excellent t-shirt this would make!
Indeed! So would “Entropy Rules!” 🙂
Tried to think of a good ‘grandmother story’ joke but failed. Seriously though. If your data is really important, you should make up a myth, story, or song about it and tell it to your kids and grandkids. Or build it into your rituals and holidays. Culture is the grand backup, for good or ill.
It is too bad that so many high profile pagans were dishonest about their pasts and in giving their oral histories. Grandmother stories are very useful in Women’s Studies and African American Studies, as I am sure everyone is aware. I guess it just depends on the nature of the beast. The inverse of your point is that data is just someone else’s oral history written down on a piece of paper. To a detective that piece of paper could be a matchbook cover or a napkin (and not a computer)—in fact, all the better.