Laptop Update
My hard drive got the death sentence today. Ugh. The upshot is, if you have emailed me in the last 2.5 years - and with 10,000 emails on my computer I figure some of them are from you - I no longer have whatever you sent, and I don't have your email address either.

[Edited to remove some of the whining.]

Anyhow, I'm left with a question - consider this a reader poll. Do any of you use an external drive to back up your hard drive? or maybe store your music? Do you recommend it?