computers suck & i'm a fool

my wonderful, three year old dell computer died on me this week. without warning the hard drive crashed taking with it our digital family photos, my mp3's, our checkbook & matthew's house's checkbook, matthew's house's website and many other things. the definite lesson to be learned here is to regularly back-up your data. that's where the fool part comes in. my last back-up was done in september of 2004. at least i have that much. i took the hard drive to an IT friend and the geek squad and best buy. they couldn't get any thing from it.

on another note, if you haven't noticed already, we've moved our blog from typepad to blogger. considering how inconsistant we are at blogging i couldn't justify paying for a blog site ($80/yr) when i could get a perfectly fine free site. typepad was great but blogger has made some serious improvements to narrow the gap.

tom