Perils of the Digital Age

A year or so ago, we had a computer crash on us. Bear in mind that in our house we have "several" redundancies in that department, so it shouldn't have been a big deal. But this one happened to have a lot of our digital photos on it. Basically, every picture we had taken of A from birth to about 3 years was on this thing, so it was more than a bit of a bummer.

The computer in question had a power supply basically blow up, and the mother board was nice and toasty. I had pulled out the hard drive at the time and stuck it in a drawer. I cannibalized what I could off of the machine and sort of forgot about the HDD.

Yesterday I was in one of the local office stores, and saw an external hard drive case. I picked it up and plunked the drive from our deceased machine into it.

Lo and behold, we have all of our photos back! I'm going to make copies of all of our stuff on another drive and burn a couple of DVDs of them. This isn't going to happen again.