Before I start on this post I want to reflect for a moment on the date. Ten years ago I was driving to work after having arrived in Melbourne on one of the last Ansett flights from Darwin. Helen was at home, 6 months pregnant with Joe resting after the trip. I turned on the car radio and couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I rang Helen and told her to turn on the TV and she too couldn’t believe it. It was a terrible day and one that truly changed the world. May we all one day be able to reconcile.

From the horror of that event, let’s move to something nicer and closer to family. In the last ten years we have seen the demise of film in cameras and the matching increase in the use of digital cameras. I take a lot of photographs and although I don’t count them, I think I have about 40,000 or more photographs stored on a 1 terabyte hard drive which is backed up weekly using the Windows backup software that comes with Windows 7.0.

This article is long - the moral is short - back your cherised memories and check that the backup actually works.

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