Personal Information and Archive Issues

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs have lost two 'discs' which held personal details of over seven million households in Britain. Well, working in IT, all I can say is I'm surprised they are still using discs to move information around. Were they re-writable cds or dvds? Haven't they heard of the internet and fast broadband connections? Storage on discs is known to be a less than robust method of archiving data anyway, better off putting it on a little hard drive, if you have to. Did somebody have to take the discs home to do a bit of work on it over the weekend? Ridiculous!

But seriously archiving is an enormous problem for everyone nowadays, none more so I guess than for prolific artists like myself. I have untold boxes of cassette tapes, vhs tapes, floppy discs, zip discs.. all with my music projects or writing projects 'saved' at various stages. I intend to begin to archive these things properly soon, and build some sort of user interface for easy access to it all, but its a mammoth task, it really is.

I don't think it's going to fit onto just two discs!!