My storage hard drive just decided to retire on me, I think.  No, I don’t have backups of a lot of things.

It seems that, as I move forward with the new version of DragonFlyEye.Net - due out next weekend - fate and the forces of nature conspire to close the door behind me.  I’m working on recovering data now, but don’t hold much hope.  I’ve lost a significant number of graphic design projects, templates and stock images that were used to create the old version of the site, and those few graphic design projects I used to create the new one.

So, I stand at the threshold of what I hope is a better blogging tomorrow, oddly naked and hopefully shriven.  I don’t suppose many people appreciate what it’s like to have lost so much stuff that isn’t really “stuff” so much as it is ephemeral electrical data.  I’ve always been paranoid about something like this happening, and now it has.  I’m sure I could probably go back through all the backup disks I have and reassemble much of what I’ve lost, and I may do that in time.

But for now, I begin to think that losing all that stuff might have been a good thing.  They say that anything you can’t throw away is a prison.  I guess that I’m just going to need to look at this as a new beginning.

But I’m still buying myself a DVD burner, ASAP.