I’m beginning to think that I need to pick up an external drive that is dedicated solely to backing up my data. I dutifully make DVD backups of critical data (like my Word files and e-mail archives) every few months, but I’ve also accumulated enough music, video, and generally hard-to-replace stuff that backing it all up on disc would be both cumbersome and environmentally irresponsible. I suppose some sort of remote storage would be the most secure solution, but none of the services have much appeal in terms of storage space or price. For now, a basic 100-200 GB drive should meet my needs nicely.
And I received this from a new reader in Belgium:
From now on I’ll read everything you write. It just makes me happy.
The 19th Floor: Making the world incrementally more bearable since 2002.

Marc, if I may call you by your first name already, I just wrote something about writing, about making literature but the e-address mc siegel 19 @gmail.com seems to be wrong. It was a bit frustrating because the text disappeared.
In it I was trying to get into some trade with you, you would have to tell me sth and I would give you some (hopefully intersting )thoughts.
I’ve published some books myself which haven’t been translated.
Mieke.