There was a time when campers would spend their lengthening autumn nights huddled about the laptop, warming their hands above the processor and letting the eerie blue glow of the monitor light their faces from beneath. It was during hours such as these that people would take turns telling tales about digital gremlins and computer projects gone wrong. Here are just a few excerpts from those half-told tales.
“The Next Day, It Was Gone!”
Who hasn’t heard the story of the phantom server? Hour after hour of labor poured in to perfecting a website until it is a resource for one and …

Backing up our data, we all know we should do it but it somehow always ends up at the bottom of that never ending To Do list. I’m really late, I’ll do it tomorrow, this proposal has to go out today, the system has never had any problems, the reasons it didn’t get done are endless. The time to learn that a backup is important is not when the system won’t start so you can’t check your appointments for the day or see if that prospective client has responded to the proposal you emailed them. It’s not when that project …