> I was so angry I was on the verge of cursing. Quite angry then? Sometimes I get so angry I almost purse my lips and frown. We should go on an anger management course together.
:o) Sorry to hear about your grief with the digital world. There's a lesson there for all of us. I know I'm at risk big time, and keep putting off doing something about it. Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Evan Hanson > Sent: 11 February 2009 22:29 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: That's it I'm Done with Digital (for now) > > So last night the hard drive on my 2.5 year old mac died. Don't even > get me started on the fact that Apple knew the seagate drive > used on my > mac was prone to failures. My last backup was on Jan 30. So > I dig out > the CD's and guess what. 2 out of 10 of the CD's have > failed. I was so > angry I was on the verge of cursing. > > As if to taunt me my boxes of negatives were stored right next to the > CD's. I pulled out a box and looked at a sleeve, a softball > game from > 1982. Still looking good despite spending almost 30 years in > a dark closet. > > So I think I'm going to take a break from digital for a while > and shoot > only film. I know the data loss can happen in any medium but > after two > devastating losses in the past 4 years I need to get back to > simpler times. > > Evan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
