Thank Goodness for Backups

Tonight my hard drive that I was using to store all my photos from my recent trip to Africa failed. Totally bit the dust (thanks LaCie). Fortunately, I still have all my photos backed up on my Epson P-7000 and on all the original CF cards that I shot while on the trip. Whew! Ironic that I was worried about data failure while schlepping equipment through the brutal dust and heat of the East African summer. Instead, the drive gave up the ghost in my comfortable home office. Lesson: always have a backup…and then back that up.