996th Friday Blog Roundup

Sunday (in two days) is the actual 18th anniversary of the Friday Blog Roundup, though this is the closest Roundup to the anniversary. 18 years ago, I wrote a post to share a few things I read that week that stuck with me. And over the years, I’ve written 896 of these (they were misnumbered at some point), which comes out to 49.7 Roundups per year, accounting for the times when I skipped a week.

I used to read hundreds of bloggers, spending an enormous chunk of my day reading blogs, but now it’s down to a handful of people who post. Many old bloggers post on social media, but I can’t share what they write because you need to be friends with them to see it.

I’ve been debating what to do with the Roundup. For now, it continues, hopefully toward its 20th birthday.

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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.

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And now the blogs…

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.

As a fellow non-Uber user, I liked The Road Less Travelled’s post about the service. “Also, as many people in the story comments pointed out, if you don’t rate your driver five stars AND give a good tip, you may be more likely to find yourself without a ride in the future. Sounds vaguely blackmail-ish to me.” There’s also the point that you usually aren’t tracked in cabs — when I enter a cab, the cab driver doesn’t know anything about my other cab rides, but that’s not the case with Uber. Just not a fan of the concept, though I know other people love it and use it daily.

Lastly, Finding a Different Path has a post about pronatalism and schools. A conversation about declining enrollment led to offensive discussion, and she writes: “It makes sense that schools are family-centric. We need children and families, because no students = no schools. But we also need to acknowledge that not everyone who works in schools is a parent, and the community members who are not currently rearing the next generation have value.” Go read the whole post.

The roundup to the Roundup: 18 years of the Roundup. 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 12 – 19) 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.