Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

• Rule #1: Always save your work!
• Rule #2: Always save your work in more than one location!

Consider savings current versions of all your major projects after you work on them in a number of locations. Of course you will want to keep them on some type of portable storage that you keep with you (floppy disk, thumb drive). However, those tools are fragile; consider backing up your hard work in the following methods:

• Online storage account (http://box.net)
• Email yourself—Google mail (http://mail.google.com/) is a free email account with a lot of storage space
• Online Document Sharing—Although document sharing programs are primarily for you to give other individuals access to your work, they also must save that work on a server. You can use either Google Docs (http://docs.google.com/) or Zoho Writer (http://www.zohowriter.com/).