About a year ago I, posted a facetious request asking the Americans reading my blog to do something to improve their economy. Well, it took a year for the effects of that request to come to fruition, but I’m pleased to say that whatever you all did seems to have worked: today I converted $482 USD into Canadian funds and got $503.74 for it. That’s a 4.51% exchange rate in my favour – it’s not quite up to the 4.9% exchange rate the other way I was complaining about a year ago, but hey, what’s 0.39% between friends? Keep up the good work my American readers – let’s shoot for 10%! Papa needs a brand new bag…and by “new bag” I mean whatever gadget I happen to need next. Like an MSI Wind in black with a 6-cell battery…
Month: September 2008
Some Things Just Shouldn’t Exist On YouTube
[Turn your speakers down before hitting play, the recorded this with hideously over-driven audio]
Huge Mozy Backup Complete
This past weekend I finished backing up 171.5 GB of data to Mozy, the online backup service that I use. It took a little over a month, and a lot of patience, but it all managed to get up there. So that means that in the case of a catastrophe here at the Dunn house (fire, flood, meteor strike) all of my music, documents, files, photos, and videos are safe and sound up on the Mozy servers. All that protection for $3.89 CAD per month based on a two-year payment. Tough to beat! Now I just have to make sure Ashley and I aren’t at home when that meteor strike happens…
UPDATE: Mozy alienated me as a customer when they tried to raise my rates by 1390% and now I don’t recommend them to anyone. No, that’s not a typo. I now use Crashplan.