About(.)Me!

While I had ten minutes free yesterday, I created an about.me page -- it's something I've been meaning to do for a long time.  It's basically a personal landing site (as reviewed here) where I can direct acquaintances:

Come See!

I highly recommend it to those lazy folks looking to make a feeble attempt at managing your online profile.  It's super easy to set up, I just used a picture that I took on a beach, added a quick bio, and some links to this blog and LinkedIn - and it was done, under 10 minutes.  It also has fun showing you analytics (who visited your site, how long they stayed, and where they came from, etc.).

Contents Lost: Blog Deleted

Well, this blog wasn't deleted, but to make sure that I preserve its content in case of some emergency, I thought it was a good idea to make a backup of everything! Turns out there's lots of options in this realm, but my favorite is a newcomer to the party: BlogBackupr.

Unlike other backup programs that I looked at, these guys provide:

• free daily backups (and restoration) of the
• text and media you post on your site
• without installing anything on your home computer (good, cause I don't have one).

It was super simple to set up, and now I can see that everything is backed up! Really, I can't say enough about this (from the little experience I have). Perfect and simple, nice job, guys!