>-----Original Message-----
>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] 
>Sent: 13 January 2006 16:15
>To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>Subject: Re: [OT] Is your oldest CD-R still readable?
>
>
>Sean,
>
>On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:17:24 +0100, Sean Schouten wrote:
>
>> On the subject of backups and failures...
>> 
>> A teacher of mine just recently backed up her important 
>-school- files 
>> for the first time, on to a cd-r and (as a result?) her her computer 
>> died the very next day! Talk about incredible timing..
>> 
>> Backup-voodoo? Who knows...
>
>This is *really* unusual - according to Murphy (and my own 
>experience) disks usually fail just *before* you do 
>a backup!

Murphy currently has a large backlog of bad luck to distribute, sometimes it doesn't arrive on time...

Mike

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