The Great Crash of 2010.

April 3rd, 2010

Crashed imacWell, it’s been a while since I last blogged but that’s because the hard drive on my computer crashed. As in died. As in gone and all my data gone and never to be seen again gone. I had backed up all my photos and music (thankfully), but not, well, everything else. I lost all my manuscripts (at least I have the finished books!) and. worst of all, I lost the current manuscript I’m working on. YES, I KNOW – why wasn’t I backing it up? That’s because I’m a dumbass. Oh well, back to the drawing board. I do have all my notes, so not all is lost. Anyway, I have a new hard drive and I’m getting an external drive (yes, yes and I know it’s a bit late for that) and life is restored.

Besides all that, not much else to report. But I will leave you with some funny spoof ads. A few days ago Tourism Australia launched their new campaign with their new website and tag line ‘There’s nothing like Australia’. I actually quite like it, but I like the spoof website even better. Here’s a few examples of the spoof ads on the site…

www.nothinglikeaustralia.net

www.nothinglikeaustralia.net

www.nothinglikeaustralia.net

7 Responses to “The Great Crash of 2010.”

  • On April 3rd, 2010 Epiphanie said:

    Sorry to hear that, Brian. I’ve lost some of my writing before and it was heartbreaking, but there is an upside, which is: You can now write an EVEN BETTER copy, cause you’ve had time to make new connections and mental shortcuts. Going back to already explored places can only improve the storytelling.

    Best of luck, I can’t wait to read what you come up with! :o )

  • On April 5th, 2010 Peter Moore said:

    Hey Brian – same thing happened to me a while back. Have you looked into getting the drive ‘forensically’ recovered? Costs a fortune but you might be lucky. I got about 2/3rds of my data back for the princely sum of £395!

  • On April 6th, 2010 Peter Copell said:

    OH NO!!!!!

    My wife and I are hangin’ out for your new book. Get working fast then :)

    thanks for the great reads so far

    peter & steph

  • On April 6th, 2010 Brian Thacker said:

    Hi Pete, you were lucky then! I got a quote to get ‘forensics’ done and it was $2500 (too much for us poor writers). I’d given up getting my stuff back, but a friend of a friend (who works in computer fraud and searches hard drives all day) is going to have a ‘look’ for me and he is confident he can get something back. I’d be happy with 2/3rds as well!

    Peter & Steph: Hopefully I’ll get my manuscript back and then I can get on working fast to finish it!!

    cheers
    bt

  • On April 6th, 2010 Hamish said:

    Love that site! Thanks for the tip.

  • On April 7th, 2010 Andina said:

    will be waiting for your next book :)

  • On April 8th, 2010 Bianca said:

    Hi Brian,
    sorry to hear about your computer. I hope the recovery will retrieve most of your work. Any chance to meet you on your next reading tour in Europe?????

    Bianca & Norman

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