Important: My Laptop Hard-drive Crashed

So my Apple Mac hard-drive is toast. :(
It was acting strange last night so I had to restart it but when I tried to, all I could hear was this weird clicking sound that I never heard it do before and the grey screen came up with a folder and a question mark in the middle of it.
Very odd indeed.
I googled (with my PC) trying to find out wtf was up with it and saw that many people had the same problem and nothing could be done about it because the hard-drive was dead and I would need a new one. :(
I only just have it over a year. 1 year and 4 months.
So the warranty is gone. Plus it looks like all my stuff will be lost but fear not I have backed up using Time Machine and copying all my photos into a folder on the back up hard-drive and oddly enough I only just bought the new hard-drive for backing up a few weeks ago. I just got it in time.

Anyhow I rang up Apple and its ended up I will get a new hard-drive for free!!! YAY!!! They will also check and see if they can save anything off my hard-drive so yeah that's good!!! Even if they don't get much I have mostly everything backed up.

Man it was scary it have it happen but I'm glad it happened now and not back when I didn't have anything backed up.
I lost all my stuff once before and that wasn't going to happen again.
Let this be a lesson for all you peoples!!! Back up your computer!!!
I'm paranoid about it now and I will definitely be getting another external hard-drive as well as the one I have to back up. Its really not worth losing all you're stuff.

So I have to travel into Dublin because it is the closest Apple Store to me (unbelievable you think there would be a closer one but at least I'm not paying for the repair.) I've already emailed the store and waiting for a reply just to be sure they can repair it and I also asked them how long it would take.
I have no idea when I will get back on-line. I can use this computer (my sisters) every now and then but the internet connection is very slow and I hate windows so... I will see anyhow.

I will let you know more soon. keep an eye on my twitter cos I can update it with my phone and it will have the latest info.

Talk again soon.

St. Patrick's Day Festival, Dublin, Ireland

St. Patrick's Day

This was the first time I got to go to the Dublin Parade for St. Patrick's Day. I've always just gone to the local one here in Co. Longford.
But I haven't actually gone to a St. Paddy's Parade in some years now because the local one tends to get a bit repetitive and isn't very exciting or thrilling at all.

I entered a competition on Pix.ie to get the change to go to the Parade in Dublin, get into a special area and photograph the Parade!!!

And I got it!!! So I traveled up to Dublin with my sister got my place in the special area for the photographers and started snapping!!! It was a wonderful day, really sunny but not to hot or too cold!!! And the people all around really enjoyed it too, which made it all the better!!!

Here are some of the best shots I got. All the photos can be viewed here on my flickr, my DeviantArt page and of course my Pix.ie page.

The Parade

Some Crazy Irish Dancers!!! Don't ask me what they where doing!!! :D

After their "performance" she happily posed for me :D



Some of the parade bands.





Birds and Butterflies, I'm not sure what they represented but they were amazing looking, wonderful costumes and colours.




Peacock: The most amazing looking costume of the Parade.



Some Parade Portraits.



Some shots of the Parade crowd.

And just some random ones to end!!! Hope you enjoyed!!! :D



Last but not least



Jim Larkin seemed to really enjoy himself!!! Hehe!!!

Please remember these are not all the photos I took. They can be all view here on my flickr, my DeviantArt page and my Pix.ie page.

Thanks for looking and be sure to leave a comment or two letting me know what you think!!!