I think part of my obsessiveness with buying hard drives is that I suffer from chronic and terminal disorganization, and seem not to realize that I may already have copies of something--unfortunately, not all in the same place.
My sister subscribes to a service called "Graphire" and I think she pays $50 a year for online backup of her computer. I'm not sure if they have a limit--if they do, I'm sure I'd exceed it and have to pay extra. But I keep thinking it would be a good thing or me to have "as a backup."
As far as "not if it fails, but when," my brother is constantly telling people that, when they ask why he continues to house his thousands of CDs. He has the contents in digital form as well, but, like me, he is 50 something, and it's hard to give up the concept that it's good to have something in "concrete" form as well as on a computer. He points out to is IPod loving friends and relatives that over the years he has had 10 hard drives fail, so it's nice to have the ultimate backup. Of course, he's in the music industry and gets to go to the Grammy's; they get a catalog every with the music in CD form quite cheap. Or at least they did when he was doing the most collecting.
He's also a talented photographer and Photoshop junkie; and I've always been mesmerized by what can be done, even before Photoshop, with a camera--and talent. I realize that you can have all the equipment in the world, and you can be competent, but if you have an artistic eye and soul, you can be amazing with a disposable camera.
I remember when I first started exploring the QAF online world, and seeing a fictional photo and journaling series by someone who I presume is you, unless there's another Quinn. It was about a trip, I think? I'd seen only a bit of fiction at the time, but I loved that series, because it looked so real, between the pictures and the writing. That was you, right? I don't remember where I'd even seen it, I don't think I was into LJ at the time, did it appear somewhere else? I was so sorry when I got to the end of it.
Thanks for the backup tips. I am really rather paranoid about losing stuff. Generally I have multiple copies; the digital equivalent of being afraid to throw anything out, but after laboriously accumulating a ton of old music from my past, I'd moved it to an external hard drive, since my computer at the time didn't have much room--and it was the only hard drive I'd ever had that crashed in such a short time, with so much on it.
seeing a fictional photo and journaling series by someone who I presume is you, unless there's another Quinn. It was about a trip, I think? I'd seen only a bit of fiction at the time, but I loved that series, because it looked so real, between the pictures and the writing. That was you, right?
Yup, that was me. It was Adventures, which was a sequel to Correspondence. I need to repost Adventures to my web site, I keep forgetting about it.
Where is everything posted? As I said, when I read it, it was all by itself, and I never knew how I got to it, or how to get back, but I'd like to see the whole thing.
I used to reread my books so much when I was a kid that decades later, I can still quote whole paragraphs by heart. Stories AND pictures together--what bliss!
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My sister subscribes to a service called "Graphire" and I think she pays $50 a year for online backup of her computer. I'm not sure if they have a limit--if they do, I'm sure I'd exceed it and have to pay extra. But I keep thinking it would be a good thing or me to have "as a backup."
As far as "not if it fails, but when," my brother is constantly telling people that, when they ask why he continues to house his thousands of CDs. He has the contents in digital form as well, but, like me, he is 50 something, and it's hard to give up the concept that it's good to have something in "concrete" form as well as on a computer. He points out to is IPod loving friends and relatives that over the years he has had 10 hard drives fail, so it's nice to have the ultimate backup. Of course, he's in the music industry and gets to go to the Grammy's; they get a catalog every with the music in CD form quite cheap. Or at least they did when he was doing the most collecting.
He's also a talented photographer and Photoshop junkie; and I've always been mesmerized by what can be done, even before Photoshop, with a camera--and talent. I realize that you can have all the equipment in the world, and you can be competent, but if you have an artistic eye and soul, you can be amazing with a disposable camera.
I remember when I first started exploring the QAF online world, and seeing a fictional photo and journaling series by someone who I presume is you, unless there's another Quinn. It was about a trip, I think? I'd seen only a bit of fiction at the time, but I loved that series, because it looked so real, between the pictures and the writing. That was you, right? I don't remember where I'd even seen it, I don't think I was into LJ at the time, did it appear somewhere else? I was so sorry when I got to the end of it.
Thanks for the backup tips. I am really rather paranoid about losing stuff. Generally I have multiple copies; the digital equivalent of being afraid to throw anything out, but after laboriously accumulating a ton of old music from my past, I'd moved it to an external hard drive, since my computer at the time didn't have much room--and it was the only hard drive I'd ever had that crashed in such a short time, with so much on it.
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Yup, that was me. It was Adventures, which was a sequel to Correspondence. I need to repost Adventures to my web site, I keep forgetting about it.
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I used to reread my books so much when I was a kid that decades later, I can still quote whole paragraphs by heart. Stories AND pictures together--what bliss!
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