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Jan 19, 2004

Now Computer Really Equals Frenchfry.

A few months back, my computer decided to eat my "mp3" hard drive which was also home to most of my pictures, and other creative works, alive.

I was not that happy a camper about this, but was able to recover 90% of my stuff, minus some of my photos.

Tonight, the hard drive which I had recoverd that data TO completly and unrecoverably crashed so hard that there is no salvaging anything on it. All I can hope is that I made some backups of the stuff I saved off the old disk last time. but I don't remember doing that.

This is like losing all your photo albums in a fire. You know you can replaced the house, but you can't replace the pictures.

Grrrrr.

UPDATE: I seem to have kept at least a marginally complete backup on CD and randomly scattered around my different systems & servers, so although a pain in the butt to have to do this again, I don't think I permanently lost anything huge.