Space aliens ate my HFS headers

I am pretty good about keeping backups. (I learned the hard way.) Yet, due to a variety of problems, I ended up not being backed up for about two weeks at the end of November 2002.

I was sitting in front of my PowerBook G4. The new backup media was due to arrive tomorrow. I casually unmounted my external FireWire disks, and moved to the living room to watch a DVD.

An hour and a half later, I plugged the external disks back into the laptop.