I have been facing the reality of digital media this past week. Last Friday the 300GB Maxtor drive that housed my VMWare servers died. One of these servers was my Win 2K3 web server that hosted ikilledamaninreno.com and a couple of vanity web sites. 
Yeah I know I should have had a backup. But the trouble with the digital life that I have (and I am sure many others have) is that as your collection of avi’s, mp3’s and jpeg’s grows they all begin to compete for drive space until in the end, trying to find the 70GB of space required for a plain old copy just gets too damned hard.
Of course the reality of it all is that I have lost seven years of my web site. Gone, gone, gone. I even sent my drive off to Seagate in the vain hope that something could be retrieved. Of course it could, for $1700. F**k off.
So I have two choices, I either go and spend a couple more days setting up another virtual server and start try recreating my old web site from old Google caches or I just eat sh*t and rely on some anonymous web cockroach like WordPress to provide the infrastructure so I can concentrate on the real reason I am on the web, being an ass. A creative, caustic, pompous ass.
