Your picks for everything fannish

You mean a flash drives! We've had a few of those - like floppies, those are very fragile and die quickly. They're meant for a small amount of information. I really don't see them as replacing CD's so much as supplimenting them. (but then again I don't use CD-R's or RW's as often as I used to, Partly because of the external drives and also because I store all my photos on Photobucket.) Our La cie external harddrives can be set to back EVERYTHING up in the computer once a day or whenever you want. Usually once they fill up, they kick off the oldest backups.

Or you can manually have them just back up certain files. they're very durable -and if my sweetie had been willing to ante up the $50 to the computer guys, it's possible they may have been able to retrieve what was stored there. Including drafts of fics and metas I'd been working on *sniffle* (I can never predict when she's gonna go into miser mode, after spending hundreds and thousands on a new ipod and whatsits and whoseits.)

I am glad she grabbed the laptop - although I wish one of us had thought to grab one of the harddrives (which were on the other side of the room from where the fire started.) She was focused on trying to put out the fire and save her two pairs of eyeglasses (which were a lost cause) and I was just trying to get her to grab some clothes and get the hell out of there.

The next few weeks were frustrating having to go to coffee houses for wifi until we got cable - which meant I had almost no access because the laptop is actually her's anyway, not mine. Then I really realized how much of an ADDICTiON the internet is!