1045th Friday Blog Roundup

Monday marks the 19th anniversary of the first Friday Blog Roundup back in 2006.

It was a few weeks after I started the blog, and I realized that I was reading stuff and wanted to talk about it with other people, so the Roundup was born. Every week, I would post things that I thought about after I closed the browser. If I bookmarked the piece, or I talked about it with someone else, or I thought about it at a random moment, it went on the list.

I like the idea that sharing is baked into the structure of the internet. It’s literally a tool for sharing information, perspective, advice; an infinite backyard fence in the form of a hyperlink. I am grateful for a world where there are still writers slogging past the words produced by AI to deliver their own unique thoughts to get under our skin and shift the way we see the world.

I’m going to ask you on Monday to share posts you still think about, so go look at your bookmarks and get ready to tell us the words that have stuck with you.

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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:

• “July 4th Anniversaries” (Infertile Phoenix)
• “No children. Just us. And it was more than enough.” (The Next 15,000 Days)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Scientist on the Roof feels time poor, and I related to her missing minutes (hours?) 100%. She writes: “I am not sure if I am just so disorganized… or if I am experiencing some weird time-related quantum phenomena.. or if some things are just taking longer than they should.” I also feel like there are tasks each day that should happen, and yet… I don’t have time to do them.

The Next 15,000 Days writes about a thoughtless comment delivered by her uncle about a recent trip to the beach. She summaries the moment: “I sat in silence, struck by the sheer thoughtlessness of it all. How wrapped up people can be in their own joys, blind to the quiet sorrows seated right beside them. How carelessly words can fall, without the faintest thought of who might be catching them.” It’s a good reminder to think before you speak.

The roundup to the Roundup: 19 years of Roundups. 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 July 11 – 18) 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.