There will never be a "year of the desktop", because the desktop is dead. The reality is that such a large percentage of the population use mobile devices for the majority of their interactions that whatever happens on the desktop is irrelevant. I find it bizarre because the mobile experience is so abysmal compared to a proper desktop. But I've never understood the mainstream, and I guess this is just another example of that.

Alas dying. Jorg had a heart attack a few days ago.

Aggressive cancer.

.50 what? Dollars? If so, why not say so?

How can anybody call him a "denier" when he acknowledged global warming in the first twenty seconds of the cited video?

He is more of a lukewarmist, meaning that he agrees that the climate is changing, is not certain that's a bad thing, and reserves judgment on controlling emissions until there is more data to confirm the models' predictions.

True, Obama's making some pretty unpalatable moves like this. But I really don't see that any of the alternatives would have done anything differently.

Buy a cheap large USB disk.
Sort the files by creation time, remove the ones in your list of files already backed up (empty at start) and fill your USB disk using the oldest files first.
Add list of backed up files to your collection of disk indexes, (excluding files that you want the backup to process again).
Label the disk as "files from xxx to yyy"
Repeat until you're duplicating current files into a current disk.

If the data is sensitive then truecrypt the disks before writing the data, being aware that losing your password would also lose your backup and be prepared to wait days building the encrypted container.

I wrote an awk script to do this, though at the time I was writing 4Gb DVDs rather than multi-terabyte USB disks.

At some point in the future, when disk sizes have grown you can copy multiple old smaller disks into larger ones to avoid being stuck with old technology. I expect after the submitter has moved to a 100Tb NAS in 2018 they'll be using the 20 as a backup.

I come here infrequently, and lose track of who is who. Do I know you on facebook?

Yep. I rip to Vorbis as well, so that I can easily scp music to my work computer without having to transfer the full FLAC file over my relatively slow ADSL line. The extra 10% storage it uses is essentially insignificant.