Backing up your hard drive is one of those things that everyone knows they ought to do, but very few of us actually do it regularly. I know I sure don't.

My wife is generally pretty good about at least backing up our pictures. Every couple of months she burns a new CD and we keep those stored in a fire box along with all our other important documents, just in case.

I hate that you lost your pictures, Ali. At least you still have those from your blog. Did you have any online web albums?