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As we all know, we really should make regular backups of our data, just in case something bad happens to our computers.

As we all also know, almost nobody actually does this.

I started about three months ago, when I bumped into a recommendation for Data Deposit Box.  I installed their client on my PC, told it to back up nothing except the My Documents folder, and well, that was it.

It keeps up to 3 previous versions of anything it backs up (and can keep uo to 28 if I so wished), works whenever I'm idle, and charges 1 cent per MB per month.  Which, for me, works out to about 54 cents per month.

Now, this doesn't include lots of photos, or my video collection, or my MP3s.  This wouldn't be a terribly cheap way of doing that - if I wanted those to be safe I'd burn them all onto a few DVDs and hand them to a friend to look after.  But for storing the few important documents I have, it's an almost invisible cheap way of making sure that everything is safe.

I recommend it.
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Anyone recommend some good two player games, for both Windows and Gamecube?

Extra points for anything Co-Operative...
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If anyone is planning to send parcels long distance, can I heartily recommend against BusinessPost - not only did they tell me on Friday that they'd reattempt delivery today (so I stayed in waiting for them), their "Edinburgh" delivery depot is in fact out past the airport, making it impossible for me to pick up the parcel.

I'm arranging for it to be redelivered through someone that will leave it at a post office if I'm not in, but this isn't the first time BusinessPost have caused me this kind of hassle.

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