Marvin Yan Photography

Backup, backup, backup!!!!

Argh!!!…isn’t that the first thing they teach you if you are dealing with anything computer related…be it programming, system administrating, writing, oh and photography. I didn’t (at least not with this last photoshoot with Ryan) and guess what?!?! The damn harddrive on my laptop went kaput. It started clicking like crazy which means either the head of the harddrive are misaligned, loose, bent, cracked out.

So I powered it down and powered it back up praying that it would boot right back up normally, but nada. Gave me a folder with a question mark on it and started clicking away again. This sucks as I was planning to back up my stuff this weekend too. I lost all the shots I did with Ryan this past weekend (all 378 of them!!) and now have to do a reshoot. Ugh!!!….so sorry Ryan.

Lesson learned…I am going to take full advantage of the “Time Machine” program on the new Leopard OS system which automagically backs up your stuff to an external harddrive every day. So, what did I end up doing?…I sent that damn laptop in for service and I spent $2k and bought a Macbook Pro. Why? Because I needed a computer this week and for next week for work…it is of the utmost importance that I have one to work…and damn Apple doesn’t have a loaner program. You’d figure they would as everyone is doing something important on their computer these days.

So I bought a Macbook Pro and gotta say, it is way, way, way better than the Macbook. Oh and I’m gonna sell my Macbook once I get it back from Apple so if anyone wants to buy it, lemme know.