Decluttering my physical file cabinet this week brought a smile to my face when I found a print copy of something I saved years ago, but is still appropriate today.
Not sure when I saved it, but I’m thinking it may have been when I was volunteering with Habitat for Humanity Detroit in the late 1990’s to mid 2000’s.
That was when I was volunteering to build Habitat Detroit homes as well as designing, writing content, and maintaining their website. Eventually I stopped working on homes and concentrated on website design, photography, documenting homeowner house dedications, and writing.
With my technology background, I coordinated getting donated computer equipment, Windows operating system, accounting software, and Microsoft Office installed and set up in the Habitat Detroit office.
With the help of my husband and my former co-workers, we set up what I believe was the first network for the Habitat Detroit office.
Once we were done setting up the network and installing software, I explained to the office staff the importance of creating backups of their work files.
It took a bit of sleuthing to find the source of my print copy, but it appears to be Yesterday – The Backup Song post in 2012 by Rob Cosgrove (Wayback Machine), where he gave credit to public relations professional Sunni Freye who wrote the lyric in 1999.
Here are the lyrics, be sure to sing them to the tune Yesterday by The Beatles.
Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.Suddenly,
There’s not half the files there used to be,
And there’s a deadline
hanging over me.
The system crashed so suddenly.I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.
Now my data’s gone
and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.Yesterday,
The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
Thought all my data was here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.
