How to backup-for dummies

One of the main things I get asked in my job as a computer technician is 'please save my work! It disappeared!' Now, I'm going to teach a magical thing called backup, which will stop you, the customer, having to pay me an hourly rate to try (and not always succeed) to recover your data.

Wii homebrew guide for Wii system menu 4.3

I promised on my Twitter that I would write a guide for this, so here it is. ONLY FOLLOW THIS GUIDE IF YOUR WII IS ON 4.3. Otherwise update to 4.3 before following this guide (or look around for another guide for your firmware).
You will need:
An SD card with about 800mb free, formatted as FAT32.
An wireless router or access point for your Wii to connect to
A Wii with 4.3 system menu installed
A copy of super smash bros. Brawl
Some free time (about 30 minutes)
What this will do:
Install the homebrew channel
Install BootMii, the unbricking tool (just in case)
Install Priloader, the system hacks tool
And install USB CFG Loader, allowing you to run backups from a thumb drive.

Portal 1-Free of Charge, for a short time.

According the latest news post for Portal 2, Portal 1 is now available free of charge, but only untill the 30th of September. This is part of Valve's Thinking with Portals initative. So if you haven't picked this gem up yet, now's the time.

Also, in seemy related news, Portal 2 recently recieved an update for "Preparations for launch of Portal 2 updates this September". Hopefully the multiplayer DLC is due sometime soon.
Anyway, till next time, happy gaming!