1090th Friday Blog Roundup

I’m doing nothing for this weekend. I’m not going downtown to whatever is on the Mall. I’m not watching fireworks. I’ll read a book and bother the guinea pig, but that’s about it for this holiday weekend.

Do you have any plans?

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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.

A Half-Baked Life has a post about abiding. Being present and supporting a person is something that happened via her blog. She writes: “This space and the community I found through it have been so important to me for over fifteen years that it’s hard not to acknowledge; it’s also shaped the person I’ve become far beyond the page.” It’s a gorgeous post about how writing and reading can change who you are.

The roundup to the Roundup: No weekend plans. 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 June 26 – July 3) 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.