Macintosh backup with Palm Buddy

A decision befitting Solomon (or an editor with a good, biblical name like David)

Sometimes editors work in mysterious ways. Such is the case with this article. We had originally intended to do a series of articles on the "Buddy" backup twins: Backup Buddy and Palm Buddy. We had recruited two of our favorite authors, Jim McCarthy and Fredlet, to do one of each. Alas, wires got crossed. Somehow, they both wound up writing articles on the Macintosh variant, Palm Buddy. Honestly, we can't tell if we short-circuited here or were misunderstood there. In any case, we wound up with two Palm Buddy articles and no Backup Buddy articles. What's an editor to do?

In a decision befitting the great Solomon, who, it is told, arbitrated over two mothers who claimed parentage of a single infant and offered to cleave said infant in half as settlement, we had to arbitrate over the fate of these two Palm Buddy articles. (Ok, so it's not quite as biblical in proportion, but it was still a sticky wicket and led to quite a nice run-on sentence.)

And, befitting our glorious stature as editors, we decided to, ah, well, cop-out. We're running both. Since both have distinctly different styles, and since both actually cover the product from slightly different approaches, we decided to give you both perspectives. Our thanks to Jim and Fredlet for putting up with this. And, in a fit of even more glorious editorial effectiveness, we've managed to still get you a fine Backup Buddy review, running elsewhere in this issue. -- DG