My friend Vince pointed out that I should really have dual-redundancy backups since a 1TB drive could easily fail during a recovery operation. I think I’ll add another drive to the set so that one disk at work is 1 week old and another is 2 weeks old.

i personally don't have offsite backups and it doesn't sit well with me. unfortunately, maintaining backups can be expensive. i already laid down a ton of cash for a windows home server and hard drives to fill it, so i don't really have any money left to buy more hard drives and enclosures.

when i finally do, i'm pretty sure i'll be using sneakernet just like you.

No, you don't know when you'll get into an accident so you put it on all the time.

Same thing with your gun – the purpose of it is to save your life, just like your seatbelt. And like your seatbelt, it doesn't work if you don't have it on.

If you're worried about people getting tense, then wear a cover shirt and get a concealed carry license. It's worth the hassle if it saves your life. Or your loved ones.

I know people get tense when I wear my Glock around, so I only carry it late at night.

The number one annoyance it the crippled offerings and integration for apps accounts. E.G. I want Picasa and shouldn't have to sign into a "regular" google acount for that and to post to their help forums and to authenticate to or access other google offerings… Related to this is the ability to merge and move data between accounts.

I also have a laundry list of small annoyances that will probably never be addressed. E.G.:

-Picasa Web Albums does not obey the singly entity multiple lables, albums, etc. paradigm of local picasa or gmail.
-Cannot select how often pop accounts get checked.
-Cannot select different signatures to be used with different "reply-to" addresses.
-Cannot select multiple folders in Picasa.
-Cannot move Calendar app or labels to RHS.
-When will we finally see hierarchical labels?!! (i.e. folders4gmail).
-Finish off "multiple-inboxes" lab feature.
-Allow proper wild card searches for things like labels.
-My google apps account profile picture viewable to non apps account google users in chat.

The list goes on. Now obviously google has to set priorities but but many of the annoyances they seem to ignore should be pretty simple to fix and at least it would be nice for them to listen and respond a bit more to their users.

I would love to give them more money but they absolutely have to offer their "normal" features to the small time app accounts. E.G. I'd probably spend $100/yr to have an integrated apps account that could share 250 GB between email for all users, picasa photos, sites storage, etc. At some point I'm going to hit the wall on the 7-8GB of free email storage on my apps account and it seems ridiculous that I will then have to upgrade the whole apps account to pay $50/yr PER USER (I have another 4 or 5 family members who use almost no space). So I will then have to pony up ~$250/yr for just 25 GB of unshared space per user. Right now for $250/yr I can get 1TB of space on an individual account! ARGGG….

I think it'll take an exceptionally squeaky wheel (i.e., a huge business customer) for this issue to even show up on Google's radar screen. Me moving my single Premier account to a different hosted email provider is a loss equivalent to what Google spends on food and massages for one employee every day.