I’m kicking myself. The hard drive in my MacBook went south this week. I didn’t lose a huge amount of data due to the crashed notebook drive … just one thing … a portion of my old email. Nearly everything else was backed up in one place or another. Losing six months of email to a crashed hard drive was a simple reminder to something I knew all too well … keep everything backed up.

All in all, I was fairly lucky. I was able to recover a bunch of things off the crashed drive before it went completely south. For better or for worse, I tried the old “throw the hard drive in the freezer” trick and the planets briefly aligned in my favor.

Needless to say, I’ll be backing up the new hard drive on a regular basis, automatically … just as soon as I toss some coins at a new Time Capsule.