exciting monday post requesting help for ignorant computer user

Hi, internets!

I hope you had a fine weekend. We sure did, thanks for asking.

Anyway, I have a conundrum, and for some reason I haven’t figured it out yet, so I figured I’d ask just in case one of y’all have already figured it out.

I have an old computer at my house; “old” meaning “six or seven years old.” Yes, it has a color screen and runs on electricity. Other than that, not much in common with these newfangled things you kids use nowadays.

Anyway, said computer has information on it that I don’t really want to lose, but that I don’t access very often. So I’d like to backup the computer and remove it from my sight.

The thing has a CD burner, and here’s my question: What is a good program to a) create a backup and 2) burn the backup on CDs? It would be awesome if it would store it in a way that I could read the CD on another (less ancient) computer and cherry pick files I may need, but that isn’t a deal breaker.

Any thoughts?

Sign of the times

The kids voted “An Inconvenient Truth” as “too boring,” so now we are watching Fantastic Four.

Jessica Alba is warming things up nicely. Rowr.