My Personal Crisis of Digital Preservation

For a long time I was a big fan of Dantz Retrospect Backup. For while I was so committed that I would do an incremental backup of my laptop and most every other computer in my house every day, but I’ve been using it one way or another since 1999 or 2000 or so. All [...]

Personalizing the Preservation Problem

I went looking for an old file the other day. As it turns out, the file was from 12 years ago, but that doesn’t seem so long ago now.
Anyway, I was amused to find how most of my images from that time were TIFFs instead of JPEGs. Thankfully, TIFFs are well supported now, but my [...]