Well... crap.

I've owned three USB keydrives. Two of them have died - one completely, and one just now with an error that requires the drive to be formatted, losing 2 GB of data. That includes the most recent draft of my big freelance RPG contract. Yes, I was backing it up elsewhere periodically, but I've lost about 15% of it.

Perversely, the oldest, cheapest, and most commonly used of my keydrives, a 256 MB one I bought on sale about 4 years ago, still works fine.

I'm considering using an SD card for all my portable storage from now on. I've taken tens of thousands of photos, and used about 10 or 12 different flash cards of various capacities, and aside from one or two corrupt photos, I've never had a problem.

Vivimind Billboards

So, if you live in Canada, you're seeing billboards for Vivimind, an over-the-counter drug that allegedly protects "memory function."

Know, then, that the drug is being sold over-the-counter because it failed clinical trials. So, the company can only market it as a nutritional supplement.