1035th Friday Blog Roundup

If you missed Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office the first time around, PBS is re-airing the miniseries (only in the US) until May 18 to celebrate the show winning a Peabody Award.

It is a bonkers story about the 2009 (or thereabouts) British Post Office scandal where hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly charged with theft because of a computer glitch. And Alan Bates (with many other subpostmasters) took on the post office and exposed the crime.

If you haven’t seen it, this is your chance to see it for free if you live in the US. It’s four episodes, or a little under four hours to see the whole thing. And really well done.

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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.

Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

And now the blogs…

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But first, second, helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• None… sniff.

Okay, now my choices this week.

Dear John updates her late husband on their daughter’s upcoming graduation and life this spring. She writes, “You’ve missed all the triumphs and the drama. The friends, the crushes, the dating, the dances, the driver’s license, her work experiences…” It’s a bittersweet post about life continuing.

Lastly, All & Sundry has a post about lasts. She muses on what we can get used to, even when it feels like we can’t in the moment. She writes about a time when both kids will be in college: “It’ll be all too soon before he’s also off figuring out his next steps in life and I’ll be having to get used to a house that’s too quiet and too clean. And I will, even though it won’t feel like it at first. It’ll all keep going and changing, if we’re lucky enough.” I like the hopeful note that she ends on.

The roundup to the Roundup: Watch Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office for free (until May 18). Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between May 2 – May 9) and not the blog’s main URL. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week. Read the original open thread post here.