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Following up on Aside: On the Importance of Backups, I asked readers how paranoid they were about Enron unexpectedly trading away their local power supply and turning their hard drives into paperweights.
The Question: Do you back up your writing?
The Results:
24% (9 votes)Only when I write something worth keeping. 
11% (4 votes)I put a fresh backup in a safe deposit box every afternoon.
11% (4 votes)I only think to backup after a crash.
0% (0 votes)Every word I write is printed, bound and on sale at LuLu.
5% (2 votes)Doesn’t Windows do that for me already?
16% (6 votes)Hang on … Yep, I just did.
16% (6 votes)Lost work is God’s way of saying “Not right for us”.
18% (7 votes)Other
['Other' responses included specific backup strategies, most of which were obsessive but not funny]
Total votes: 38
Glad to see my readers have enough shame not to admit to the LuLu option. But I think in general this poll has only demonstrated one thing: Backups are not funny.
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This poll receives the “Humorless Asshole” seal of approval for unfunniness.
From the Andrea Brown Literary Agency website, under the Do’s and Don’ts:
Don’ts–
#2 Don’t take perseverance too far.
Bahahaha.
http://www.andreabrownlit.com/dos.php
Or, to quote far too many wannabe writers, “Worst…poll…EVER.”