A Day Late and A Dollar Short

Here's a newsflash: MACS DO CRASH!

I learned this by experiencing something very painful; the loss of every single piece of data on my hard drive. That would be some 4,000 photos, many videos, music, addresses, and all of my school work. One might ask, "How can this happen, when Macs aren't supposed to crash?". Well the answer, as I learned all too well, is that unlike PC's Macs will not experience a crash due to software architecture. However, like any and all electronic devices, it's hard drive can have a physical failure or develop a physical defect (kind of like our DVD player that doesn't work right now...or our icemaker that doesn't work right now...or...).

"What caused this defect?" you might be asking. Well, there is no way to know. It is however, refreshing to not have an employee try to pin it on something I've done or some kind of software I've used, which is what has happened previously when I've dealt with PC or cell phone malfunctions. The odd thing is that this is the 2nd hard drive that has punked out on me in the 2 years I've had the computer. Even the folks at the Apple Store say that doesn't happen very often. Plus, I'm the only Mac user I know whose computer has crashed! But...I have a theory, and it's one probably only my dad will appreciate:

Theory: My electromagnetic field is extremely strong, and it is blowing out these hard drives.

Basis: Watches always slow down on me and eventually stop, street lights turn off and on FREQUENTLY when I'm by them, I blew out a CPU at a former job ("completely unexplainable", the IT dep't said), and at the same job I also blew out two mouses (mice?). By 'blow out', I mean they just suddenly quit working.

I know that a lot of people experience lights turning off or on when they go past, but it is probably their EM field doing it as well. I realize this makes me sound nutty, but it's really the only logical explanation.

So - here I sit, with no computer, and a loss of many important and special documents and images. I did purchase an external hard drive and back up to it when they retrieved my data from the first crash - which was a year and a half ago - so I have about half of the photos. Otherwise, I'm counting on family and friends to send me what they have (that means you if you're reading this and you have photos - preferably electronic images - of my family, please send them my way). In the meantime, BACK UP YOUR DATA.

Ironically, I had purchased a program in March that would allow me to store my data in Apple's "Cloud", and got an upgrade that would automatically do the backup for me every single night. March was a busy month, and I had planned to take a class on how to set it all up once the semester was over. Hmmm...semester's over...too late now!