4 gigs of pictures
just got back from east africa to find that my camera, together with a 4 gig memory card, was missing from my rucksack (although the case was stuffed into a side pouch, where it doesn't belong).

On that memory card were pictures of me on one knee proposing at sunrise on the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro, a month of memories from tanzania, a simply incredible wedding (not mine) in mombasa, a paradisical week in zanzibar... you get the picture (pun not intended).

Keep the fucking camera, but please, someone somewhere open that memory card and see those pictures and work out some way to get it back to me.

(seriously, does anyone know any way of tracking something like this down? Outer edges of possibility, I know...)

As a philosophical aside, I realised as I was lamenting, hard, the loss of some of the best pictures I have ever taken, that I was remembering them from the screen on the back of the camera, not the scenes and experiences themselves. Am in agreement with Alain De Botton's thesis on the camera degrading our ability to properly see. Will try to take less pictures in future, more memories.

Edit, ok, I realise, on actually reading teh question, that mum didn't throw this out, but I am still in a massive sulk about this so claim the right to post it anyway (spurious)
(pounana Slept well, and dreamed of large women, on, Sat 16 Aug 2008, 14:04, 1 reply)

If you put any of those photos on the internet
then there's a way to find out if anyone has put them anywhere else on the internet. Have a look at tineye.com (cheers b3ta /links), although it is still at beta testing stage and does not cover the whole of the internet.
(lost, Sat 16 Aug 2008, 14:10, closed)