I was given a strong reminder on the importance of maintaining regular backups of my work. I bought a new hard drive about six weeks ago, and it died on me the other day. I hadn't backed up any of my Poser work or writing that I'd done since installing it (and I'd already had to reinstall Windows 7 a second time after getting a virus in the first couple of days I had it).

Of course, I'd just finished building a render that I'd felt pushed me beyond my usual, and I was really excited about it. I hadn't backed up my new character of Moonsong, who I'd spent several days building. Everything I'd done in the last six weeks was potentially gone. When my hubby was able to recover the data from the defective drive, I was more than a little relieved.

So if you haven't done it recently yourself, go backup your important data right now!! You can get an external hard drive for cheap nowadays, or even just a USB key for the must-keep files.