Stupidity.

I know a bit about gadgets and memory storages. But then, I commited data suicide multiple times. So many times, I formatted and reinstalled OS without data backup. When I could have simply taken harddisk out of my f***ed up laptop, I sent it to US for repair. Ofcourse it returned broken. (Courtesy Customs guys)
To cut he story short. Today I was experimenting with GPRS settings on my phone. It wasn't working. In a crazy moment I thought all the stupid applications I installed on my phone might be an issue. I wanted to return to pristine-out-of-box state. I performed a soft/hard reset. The result. All my installed applications remain, but photos and clippings of my great kids are erased. :(:(
Ok, it isn't as bad as projected. I have backup of 90% of media(photos, videos) on my PC and 100% contacts elsewhere.
At times , my knowledge lays buried somewhere deep in my brain and my stupidity takes over in a rush to achieve some not so important objectives.