You might have noticed, I’ve been slow to update the blog.

Well, It’s been an interesting week. Just before I started to move my office (a large job unto itself). I discovered the power supply to my disk array had failed. Despite thinking I had found every single point of failure with my systems, a new one pops up. My disk array contains all of the files I consider important in a fully mirrored configuration. This means I don’t have to worry if a disk fail.

What about two disk failing. Well, I’m still fine, as I have a USB external drive that is updated overnight, so I have a copy of yesterday’s data. You’d be surprised how often I’ve screwed something up and needed to go back to my original copy.  Unfortunately, the power supply on my unit exists alone and it failed. This required the taking apart of an old desktop to discover I couldn’t use that power supply. A trip to the computer store for a new power supply only to discover it was too long to fit. Another trip to the computer store for a power supply for a replacement only to discover one of the cables was too short. A tense splicing of a new cable onto the old one so it could reach and a nervous power-up to see if everything was working.

This is called a “Smoke” test for a reason.

It worked and everything is back online – and I’ve moved to a new and larger office.

I really am amazed at how much technology a modern professional photographer has to manange.