Last week my notebook's hard drive failed. All the data was lost. A couple of months before, I've subscribed to an online backup service,
Carbonite. I was able to recover all the data I cared for, so that's why I'm recommending it.
Basically, you pay $5/month regardless the space you use.You select the folders you want to back up, and it backs them up silently when you connect to the internet. You can suspend the backup process if you need to use your bandwidth for something else.
Use this link to download a free 15-day trial subscription to Carbonite, and get an extra free month of service when you buy (and 3 months free for myself;) :
http://www.carbonite.com/raf/signup.aspx?RAFUserUID=2508&a=0
Scott found out that IE and Outlook won't work on authenticated feeds.
The argument that there aren't a lot of authenticated feeds is very silly. We have authenticated feeds in our company, and probably a lot of companies do. They are not public. Nobody sees them but us.
Not supporting authenticated feeds restricts the use of RSS only to public feeds and seriously limits the scenarios where you can use RSS for enterprise apps. If we want to make RSS the Internet publish/subscribe backbone, then we need good support for authentication.
I was eager to use Outlook as my main RSS client application, but it looks I'll need to look somewhere else...