666
So it hit me a day late. It being the number of the beast, not the number signifying luck in the Chinese culture.After over 20 years in front of a computer, after a handful of catastrophic disk failures, after experiencing second-hand the tragic loss of data by many of my compatriots, and after going through & reading about many other strange incidents... I still managed to lose a bunch of data because I didn't back up my shit. This time, four months worth of personal e-mail. Lost. Forever. To the great big magnetic ether in the ionic sky.
GAH.
And I only have myself to blame...
- for trying something absolutely stupid taking a snapshot or using a safety net
- for using Ctrl-X instead of Ctrl-C when rearranging my files -- disk space is CHEAP!!
- for doing stuff late at night when I'm not thinking straight
- and worst of all...for making my existence so dependent on billions of itsy-bitsy microscopic ones and zeroes desperately clinging onto a furiously spinning magnetic platter.
...I envision a cataclysmic revolution of epic proportions, a day when we all join together and finally break free from these silicon-infested shackles, tossing our Thinkpads, Precision M20s, MacBook Duos, Nanos, Treos, RAZRs, 20Ds, into one big glorious toxic fireball that singes our nosehairs and scorches the sky...
posted by VirtualErn @ 12:15 AM
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Unplug from the Matrix!!
:-)
Man, it must be the alignment of the stars or something. Just the other night I did a massive DVD backup of all my photos and also copied them to my external drive just because I've been seeing so many others with issues.
So weird that I was just talking about backing up in my blog. I feel you man.
Same thing happened to me at work two weeks ago. Something, probably a virus, wiped my hard drive clean.
3 months of work was sitting in My Documents at the time. Dumb!
Now I store everything on a share like a smart person.
I haven't had a problem like that on my Mac,....yet. (knock on wood).
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