25 nov 07
As I reported in a rather frenzied fashion a little over a week ago, my MacBook hard drive died. This is actually the second hard drive I’ve had die on me in a Mac laptop — the first was in my refurbished 12” G4 PowerBook. Last time, this was completely my own fault, as I left it downloading while sitting on a couch, with the power settings not as they should be, so most likely it overheated. As I was way out of warranty and completely at fault, I bought a reasonably priced replacement and, well, replaced it.
This time I’m not really sure what happened, as I was using it at the time and all seemed well. I was extremely lucky for a couple of reasons: (1) Apple replaced it, and (2) I had backed up my photos and music literally the day before. But, I still lost various documents, years of chat logs, a couple of revisions on my new site I hadn’t checked in, etc. It’s funny because I had spent the time between Leopard coming out and the death obsessing over backing up, and, as it turns out, I was right. If you have things that are important to you on you computer, on any kind of computer, please back them up.
Rich / 26 nov 2007 / 12:57 p.m.
Thank God our cyber IM sessions will never see the light of day.