I know I spend too much time on the Computer… but I really enjoy having my online community…

But when things go wrong, it is hard…

Last week my external hard drive failed… or died more like it… …

it was mostly a back up but I had also been putting pics directly on it before transfering them to the other computer so when it failed I had a months worth of pics that were not backed up… and there were a few other things like that an though it is frustrating, they were not as important…

So I spent the weekend, the long weekend at that, backing up my computer onto another external drive and then reinstalling everything again…

I have to redo my music collection over again (all the music was still on Simon’s computer but the things that I had customized were not…  even that is not too bad though it is a bit time consuming…

what bothers me the most though are the pics that I lost…

I was able to recover a few from recovering the pics on my camera’s CF card but there are some that I couldn’t get back….

The problem with these machines are that they can hold so much of our lives in them and then fail without warning…

Some of you might have gotten a message from my rss feed this morning that had a bit of spam… first I was wondering how it got there but then I realized that it was not a post that was supposed to be published publically but that I had published privately last week….

what was really unnerving was that the spam was in the actually message and then the message was saved and published this morning while I was still sleeping…

I changed my password but I am wondering how it happened… :-/