30 May 2024

Ancient Throwback

Grade 1 Class Picture

I had a scare last week when we had a power flicker at home due to some strong high winds. When I got home, I logged into my computer to continue processing pictures taken from our cruise to New England last October when I noticed that I was unable to access my NAS (Network Attached Storage).

I checked the NAS, and it was stuck on the boot. There was no status activity on the device just a blue light on blinking. I went to the vendor's website to check what it means, it stated that the board got messed up and may need replacement. I have tried suggestions from the community page but was unsuccessful. I have around 6 TB worth of data, mostly pictures, videos, and digital documents that I have hoarded for the past years.

I was fortunate that I have subscribed to an online backup. I logged in to the backup portal and found that my data was safely backed up. The only issue I have is downloading that much data over the web. Powered down the NAS and planned on unmounting the hard drives and wiping them for later use. However, I procrastinated and decided to do it on a long weekend when I had time to start downloading my data.

Fast forward, before I remove the hard drives from the NAS I decided to power it up one more time. For whatever reason it booted up and logged into the NAS and all the data are accessible. Now, I am thinking of getting an Uninterruptible Power Supply to protect sensitive equipment from power outages.

This is a long introduction to the picture posted here. I have been checking my NAS and came across my old elementary school picture that I have scanned. It has been so many years and there are only a couple of classmates that I can still remember, and only one by name. I am curious what has become of them. If I post this picture on social media, will I get a hit for some of them?

Can you guess where I am in this picture?

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