The left-hand margin of the topmost piece of paper on the desk is not a persistent storage medium. In two days’ time you will have lost the vital phone number \/ password you scribbled there. Nor will you remember whose it was; only that it was vital and is now overdue.<\/p>\n\n
PS memos to self about persistent storage written on the nearest handy piece of paper are not themselves persistently stored, either.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The left-hand margin of the topmost piece of paper on the desk is not a persistent storage medium. In two days’ time you will have lost the vital phone number \/ password you scribbled there. Nor will you remember whose … Continue reading