define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":4073,"date":"2012-02-22T09:19:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T23:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2012-02-23T09:17:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T23:17:25","slug":"take-a-deep-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/4073\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a deep breath&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/gone-butallisnotlost.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"gone-butallisnotlost\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4074\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/gone-butallisnotlost.gif 480w, http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/gone-butallisnotlost-240x300.gif 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Monday afternoon, just after finishing some emails and ready to start on a new design project &#8211; my laptop crashes. And I mean completely <em>crashes<\/em>, a billion alerts and everything is <strong>gone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>All my design files, fonts, blog work, bookmarks, user names &#038; passwords some of Jovie&#8217;s documents, all my iPhone photo backups, 3 YEARS of photos from my Canon &#8212; all disappeared within a few seconds. The last few years of my life and work have been erased from reach. <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, I&#8217;ve developed a thick skin when it comes to things like this. The last few months have taught my patience and value &#8211; and while yes, all those files would be awesome to have, if I never get them back then life will go on. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very happy that I&#8217;ve become such an Instagram addict, as alot of my photos are online out there on the interwebs. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also grateful that I kept a spare (cheap) laptop, and that I have a good memory when it comes to fonts I love and websites I always visit.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken me half a day to get back up to speed on current projects, but starting on a clean slate feels good! There&#8217;s room to breathe and a blank canvas to personalise. But the first chance I get today, I&#8217;m heading out to get a portable external hard drive and backing everything up. <em>Twice. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday afternoon, just after finishing some emails and ready to start on a new design project &#8211; my laptop crashes. And I mean completely crashes, a billion alerts and everything is gone. All my design files, fonts, blog work, bookmarks, user names &#038; passwords some of Jovie&#8217;s documents, all my iPhone photo backups, 3 YEARS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4079,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions\/4079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}