Archive those attic snaps.

The New York Pravda may well have its editorial head stuck where the sun never shines, but now and then they have a useful photography piece, such as this one (account needed) on scanning all those old snaps in brown paper bags in the attic.

The service they profile, ScanMyPhotos is inexpensive and worth looking into, the point being that all those memories in the shoebox in the attic are probably not backed up.

It seems to me that even digiphobes would appreciate that a scan of precious, decaying originals makes sense. Of course, you also need a back-up drive as your hard drive will fail sooner or later. Mercifully, digital storage is becoming insanely inexpensive. Some prefer to upload their scans to a file sharing service, though I fail to see why that should be any more secure (how do you know they back-up properly? Recall the recent fiasco with lost emails when Apple’s poorly debugged MobileMe debuted?)