Recently my portal to The World Outside (my PC) was infected with something determined to bring it to utter ruination. Per recommendation from a good friend (who works as a government IT spook down in Huachuca) I downloaded the important stuff to an external hard drive, rebooted the OS, then reloaded those files.

"Those files" were mainly the pictures/movies I'd shot with my meager cameras for the last four years. What I was NOT aware of was that the downloading was incomplete, and that some photo files didn't make the transfer.

However, some of these prizewinning favorites of mine had been posted to sites on the 'Net...and if it weren't for the existence of said sites recovery of these images would be impossible.

So in conclusion I'd like to thank the 'Pit for being. Without your existence this would be but a foggy memory...