November 14, 2004

A near-death experience

My Palm Pilot appeared dead for a time today. I could not power it up. I finally did a cold reboot and it came back. However, it came back empty.

I was gripped with a brief moment of impending doom. I have come to rely on it so much that an empty Palm Pilot was not something I wanted to see. I broke into a cold sweat.

Once I had my Palm back up and running, I synchronized it with my PC. Almost everything came back as before. It took a little more work, and then I got my time sheet program back with all its data intact.

It now appears that the only thing I lost was my time from Friday afternoon (which I can recreate) and my notes from this morning’s sermon.

Whew! From this experience, let me offer three words of advice: Backup, backup, backup.

Posted by Ted at November 14, 2004 7:16 PM