The night my digital life ended
My main reason for blogging is so that I have a place to collect the literally hundred of pictures that I take each and every month – and make some rhyme and reason out of them.
At the end of each year, I take my blog and turn it into a hard cover book…one day, I will gift these books to our kids who will have beautifully bound books of our adventures, complete with narrative. I hope they will enjoy them & share them with generations to come. I love love love looking at old photos of my family.
For every 1 picture you see in my online spaces…
there are most likely another dozen or so at home.I am sort of a nut about pictures…I just love them.
I have them on memory cards, the computer, (some) backed up to online sharing sites, and the blog. Every once in awhile – I spend a good chunk of time and I back them up to an External Hard Drive as well.All of this is well and good – as long as nothing ever happens to said devices.
Water damage, fire damage, kid damage?
I’ve contemplated online back up for my entire computer – but didn’t figure I needed it when I really don’t do anything except pictures and blog booking on my home computer…
If I had enough time weren’t so lazy, I could back up all of my pictures to an online photo sharing site and call it good…but again, we’re talking huge volumes of pictures. And the ones I’ve used have started imposing limits…
I have huge volumes of pictures I’d be devastated if I lost.
Last August, on the very same day my Mom lost her battle with cancer, our fence had a lightning strike, which traveled into our house and fried our computer (and our cable box, our modem, blah blah blah.)Life had been hectic and my pictures were NOT backed up.
Not a one from the summer.
