Update #107: Archiving Nudity

Is this week’s update safe for work? Yes, sadly it is. I am referring only to my old acoustic music and poetry show that I ran from 2000 to 2003 in Toronto. It was called “Naked and Alone” and I spend a lot of time in this week’s update about archiving my old media. I used to back up all my files to writable CD-R discs, but I was reminded this week that those discs turned out to have a very limited lifespan and after 25 years, I should probably be moving them to some other media. In fact, there’s no media that’s great for long term storage. The best bet is to keep the data moving and in as many places as possible. So while I do other stuff on the PC this week, I am copying the old CDs disc by disc to my server, where they will exist on two spinning hard drives, and will also be backed up to my cloud backup provider in the US. At some point, I’ll make my own box in Canada to store all the family’s data… but what does this all have to do with art? Well, I finish this week’s updates off by pasting in a recording of the finale of Naked and Alone from April 18, 2001, so enjoy it in all its single-mic people-just-having-fun glory.