Aaaaaand…. we’re back
My PowerBook is once again untethered. I just finished replacing the 2nd hard drive to go to the great electronics junk yard in the sky in as many months. On the next to last day of our vacation in Hawaii in September, the 80G Toshiba I’d put in last year (completely voiding any and all warranties, mind you, AppleCare be damned) died, taking a day’s worth of pictures with it. Last week the original 40G drive crapped out. I could actually hear the spindle freeze. Creepy. I was somewhat lucky to find that my last backup was only (!) 3 weeks old. When I got back home on Monday, however, I found the frozen drive had resuscitated itself and that allowed me to make one more backup. Divine Intervention, indeed.
Maybe now I’ll figure out some kind of backup scheme…