So the other day, after maybe a couple too many beers, I left my bag on the bus. Said bag contained my phone and laptop among other non-important things. Luckily it was all insured, but it’ll probably be a good few weeks before I have replacements from the insurance company. I am slightly bummed about it, but really nothing (other than the physical devices) has really been lost. Everything I do either happens in the cloud e.g. email, or is pushed to the cloud e.g. coding. The next day when I was in work I got a few peoples numbers from Gmail who I needed to contact, then sent them an SMS over Skype to let them know I would get back to them later. I then got my temporary phone setup and updated my number on Facebook, so anyone who syncs with that would instantly have my new number. I could have just as easily done this from an internet café in some foreign country. My backup plan for my laptop is the same, non-existant (Time Machine bugs me every couple of weeks that I haven’t backed up for a couple of hundred days). The thing is though, I don’t need to backup. I do everything is in the cloud. (Admittedly though a few things were lost, for example game progress and a couple of rubbish photos - the good ones were posted to Twitter before hand - but everything that mattered to me was available instantly.)