I bought a new hard drive to store my pictures, video, freelance work, and software. It took me over 3 hours to get everything on there. Today that hard drive crashed with all my stuff on it. I’ll be honest I’m still in denial about losing all my precious files. I don’t know what I’m going to do, other than go insane. So mad right now. I hate computers.

I need a cheeseburger.

*update* I was able to recover most of my files with some fancy data recovery software. It’s days like this that remind me all this stuff that I want to keep safe is just 1’s and 0’s. And it seems to me that if I want my stuff to be around and readable in 50 years to my great grand kids, a hard drive is a really lame solution that probably won’t even interface with the technology of the future. Example: Let’s say my dad has some crucial data saved from 1992 on a 5.25 inch floppy disk. How in the heck am I going to read that? I have to find a computer laying around that still has a big old floppy drive. And the chances of that happening are getting slimmer as time passes. Basically what I’m saying is we need a solid way to back up electronic data that is both durable and timeless. The only viable option I see for the amount of data I have is burning backups onto Blu-Ray discs. But that is only a short-term solution. I’m sure in only 8 years Blu-ray will be referred to as ‘limited to ONLY 50 gigabytes per disc.’ I’m thankful I was able to retrieve my pictures and scans today. There was a few hours there when I was swearing like a sailor.