We have been taking lots of photos on this trip. I’ve got my trusty Canon Digital Rebel XT which has been with me on many trips, and we bought a cheap point and shoot off of a friend in Singapore. Normally, I bring along my portable-photo-dumping-device, a clunky but effective enclosure for a laptop hard drive made by vosonic that reads compact flash cards and writes them to the drive.

On day 5 of our trip, tragedy struck. The hard drive in my laptop failed, so I removed the hard drive from my photo device to save my laptop. That hard drive (which had been slogged around the world on numerous trips in all sorts of weather) failed a few weeks later.

Now on hard drive #3, my laptop is stable. Singapore’s Simlim Square (see photo) provides bargain prices on all things electronic, especially computer components. I’m also fully restored from both hard drive failures thanks to Amazon S3 and Jungledisk.

With a stable computer and a few days with solid internet, we’ve managed to recover & sort all of the photos from the trip this far. The best are now on flickr.