About a month after suffering the devastating crash of one of my external FireWire hard drives (in which I lost some critical data), lightning struck twice: the internal drive in my trusty white iBook refused to boot.

I am now totally screwed, without a working laptop. Fortunately, I was able to grab the data off my hard drive by hooking it up to another Mac and mounting it as a FireWire drive- the crash, or whatever problem the drive's suffering, is not severe enough to have completely erased my data.

So TekServe's got my laptop, and I'm $400 in for a new hard drive to replace the old one. Pity this had to happen now, especially since, if the new Mac laptops had been out, I'd probably have bought one.

BACKUP YOUR STUFF!