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Sesame Workshop Develops Resources for Familes Focusing on Emergency Preparedness

Melissa reviews and discusses the Sesame Street Emergency Preparing Kit

Homeland Security, Sesame Style from the DC Examiner

http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/YeasandNays/Homeland_Security_Sesame_Style.html

If you take a look at the comments this article has generated, you'll see a lot of people are up in arms over this saying the government is trying to brainwash our kids or tell us how to do our jobs or that we don't need the government to intervene in our parenting and that this is all just common sense.

We think the materials available are really worth downloading and taking a look at. The phone number key pad page is especially helpful. Print this out and complete it to keep handy for a babysitter.

"Archivist Alison" Langmead writes a very straightforward blog that talks about archiving and backing up. She has been featured on Jumping Monkeys talking about the subject so you can listen to her there as well.

Time Machine (FREE) comes built in with OS X 10.5x Leopard

SmartBackup ($22.00 US) is a great if you're still using Tiger or would like an additional layer of security across networked drives

Carbon Copy Cloner (FREE) (But please consider a donation to Mike for all the great stuff he does.)

SuperDuper ($27.95 US) always gets good reviews