Well, I hate to admit it, but I don't always follow my own good advice. My last post "Backup, Backup, Backup" was, shall I say, timely. I encouraged you to follow Fresno Christian's backup strategy, but failed to follow my own. It's not that I had no backup, just an older backup from August 5, 2007. So... three weeks ago my hard drive died. It didn't give me any warning. I just suddenly got the dread spinning beach ball, and then all my stuff was gone. 
 
My most recent backup was from before school started - so what did I lose? Nothing life threatening, just 2 months worth of email, purchased music, updated files, finances, grades... But I've learned my lesson - perhaps you can learn from mine.