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I'm not a packrat, I just keep all my old code stashed away for later use.

Yesterday I was given a tasking, and I thought I had until Monday morning to have it done.

This morning I found out I had to have it working before I leave work on Friday.

And another tasking came down the chute while I was wrist deep in code at 4:07 PM.

The thought that went through my head as "We who are about to die, salute you!".

So I closed out the script I was writing from scratch, hunted through my old PERL code, and found two or three scripts that if modified a little and combined, should do the job.  Maybe not as  elegantly as the from the ground up re-write I was working on, but they will give us the output we need.  I got the 80% solution done in about 3 hours, and I'll polish it tomorrow.  That'll leave me with time to do the other tasking before the world stops turning due to lack of attention on my part.

Never throw away old code.  You never know when you're going to need it.

After the issues with Blogger last week, I realized that I had never backed up my blog.  I'm actually kind of chagrined by that.  You see, in the day job, one of my jobs is to check that my systems are backed up and to work with the group that does backups to fix any issues.

I've been posting here for almost 3 years, and have over 1200 posts, with more than a few comments.  I've never backed that up.

Well, that's fixed.  I'm going to make it a habit to download a backup every week so that when Blogger either pukes all over its shoes again or I decide to move to another platform, my brain droppings will be intact.  And I think I'll add that to my off site backup rotation so that no matter what, my banana bread recipe will survive a Blogger apocalypse.