Important safety tip.

Never, Never, Never stick any memory stick, SD card, MMC card, whatever, ANYTHING except a read-only (and fully backed up) CDROM into one of those "photo kiosks" at Kinkos or Costco or any photo shop. Never!

The Sony kiosk @ the Kinkos in Sterling utterly destroyed my SD card (its unreadable by every device I have access to, including using a sandisk recovery tool). That card had my ONLY copies of every single picture I took of the Pacific NW tour. They're all GONE.

The only chance I have is to actually mail the card to the people who built the recovery software, because they may have better drivers and card readers that might be able to see through the damage. That will cost me $75 if successful, or $10 if not.

Naturally, I'll bill that to Sony, along with the replacement card costs.

Of course, I'll charge Sony the $80 best buy price, but buy the card @ costco for $50. I ain't THAT crazy...

*sigh*

ah, but there's always hope...

Jackson's 'Return of the King' DVD Adds 50 Minutes

Director Peter Jackson has added 50 -- count 'em, 50 -- minutes to the DVD version of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, due out in December, New Line Entertainment has announced. The additional footage includes 300 new special effects, the studio said. -- source: IMDB (and I've seen bootleg footage of the trailer they ran @ the comiccon)

between that and confirming that the Fantasy Ball has sold enough tickets to guarentee profitability is making today a good day after all, in spite of all the crap the gadgets (and briefly losing my car registration renewal form) gave me today...

Hey faireraven, can you post a question to hip_domestics about how they manage the tons upon tons of mail they have to keep (Bills, paystubs, receipts, etc)? any organization scheme we come up with gets over-flooded within weeks, or there's that *one day* when so much mail comes in at once that it simply can't be dealt with if one is utterly lacking in patience or time...