This piece serves somewhat as the figurehead to The Phoenix Documents. It captures some of the fateful day that launched much of this collection and much of my efforts. I have used it in several training sessions and offer it as a living example of the value of redundant data storage.
It wasn’t all that long ago that we would often say
"Why put off til 'morrow what could be done today?"
For now we put all our trust in microchips you see
In silicon and gigabytes we've set our fancies free.
We elevate and glorify our RAM and MP3
And scream and curse and argue with our rotten ISP.
Bigger! Better! Faster! More! We crave technology
It's in our cars, phones and watches - we cannot let it be.
But every now and then we find it sometimes comes to pass
That all this techno-luxury's a huge pain in the @$$.
It’s happened to every one of us, that thing that stops your heart
A beep, a blink, a sound - your words were there but now they aren't.
For eagerly one Monday morn I went to search my drive
And to my heart's intense dismay my drive was not alive.
My book! My files! My art! My prose! The life blood of my soul
Could no longer be accessed - retrieved, I had to let it go.
I cursed myself for days on end for failing to apply
A rule I've stressed from my first day as a fledgling IT guy:
Save early. Save often. And back it up to cloud or DVD
And then those precious bits and bytes might not be history.
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