This last one happened to me this week. Maybe it's dust and over heating. It has been over two years since I've given it a good cleaning. My hairdryer can't take that kind of abuse, why do I expect my computer that runs almost the entire day long to?
Two years ago I had the mother of all panics when I was finishing up the last part of editing a gallery- the resizing for web, when my computer suddenly konked out on me! I was supposed to be meeting a newly married couple to view their wedding gallery for the first time the next day. Luckily I had backed up their images on a disk and was able to show them their gallery via laptop. My computer was never the same, and at that point I hadn't been using a separate external hard drive for backing up, and sadly I lost a lot of my own children's pictures. You know the saying, "The cobbler's children never have any shoes"? .... the photographer's children never have any prints. Now I'm very very ocd about backing up my work. I never want to lose my work, or my kids images again. Someday I will have them all printed and put into wonderful scrapbooks for them to treasure. Maybe someday after they are all grown.
In the meantime I'll continue to love technology, and some days despise it.
