Let’s say the worst has happened.  Your computer operating system has broken (probably why they called it ‘windows’…get it?), whether from a virus or corrupt system file, power surge or some other in a long list of reasons.  You’ve had to restore it to factory settings.

You didn’t have a backup.  Or your backup got destroyed also by clever hackers or Tom Cruise.  Now all your photos, documents, and–most importantly–that novel you’ve been working on for two and a half years, are all…gone.  Leaving you pounding the ground and cursing the heavens while the skeletal remains of the Statue of Liberty stare down at you from above. (more…)