Yikes… Kevin Lim’s blog went down recently, one of among 200,000 affected web pages.

I’d have a mini-meltdown if that were to happen to me.

Then again, I’ve ‘survived’ losing my hard disk.

At times like this, you have to become detached from worldly goods, which many religions advocate anyway.

It’s just a bunch of ones and zeros.

Still… a little prevention can go a long way.

Like many people, I’ve thought about how to back up my blog.* Like most of this group, I’ve put it on the backburner, thinking that it will never happen to me.

Complacency. It’s all the rage these days.

I do have a rudimentary backup, just in case this blog ever decides to give up the ghost or if my webhost decides to up and leave or if some malicious person destroys it.

It is at Google Reader. I subscribe to my blog’s feed, and share the post every time I update.

Yup, that’s why my contacts who are using Google Reader see that my ‘shared items’ are my blog posts. I started doing this before they enabled users to see their contacts’ shared items.

It’s manual. I’d like something more robust and automated. But it’ll do for now.

Kevin, as you commented recently here, I feel your pain.

* I’ve also thought about how to keep the blog alive after I’ve left the building. The moment payments stop, this blog will go down. No solution as yet. Perhaps one of the advantages of having a blog on Blogger or WordPress.

Original photo by Adrian Sampson, from here, reproduced under a cc by 2.0 license.