It’s recently been discovered that optical storage media aren’t as impervious to time as was once believed. That 100-year “guarantee” on the back of your box of CD-Rs? Forget about it.
CNN has the scoop, along with some tips on how to help your music and data last longer.
Creating a new folder on my desktop for some PDF files I was downloading, I accidentally named it “Dada Mining White Papers.”
A Freudian typo? Or inspiration?
Codepoetry has a nice tip for Movable Type bloggers on how to change your archiving scheme without sapping your Google juice or 404ing everyone who’s ever linked to you. It involves creating a secondary archive URL (your old one) for every archive type you want to change, then setting up the template for that new archive to be a redirect to the revised URL.
The CP entry does a better job of explaining this than I do. The author opts for a meta refresh to redirect visitors, but I’d probably go with a PHP redirect if possible. It’s more elegant, in my opinion, and doesn’t force visitors to look at the intermediate page.
