I must vent.

I seem to be having a particularly bad trip when it comes to losing photos this time. The first incidence happened in Luang Prabang (Laos), when I needed a new memory card as my current ones were full.

So I procede to buy a memory card from a electronic retailer in town. I then see the option of a 32GB USB stick for not significantly more than a 4GB Compact flash. I decide to go for this, and the wonderful people at the shop offer to transfer my photos onto the stick. Stupidly I thought this was a wonderful idea.

I come back in an hour to collect my cards and new USB stick, and ask to confirm the photos are on there. Naturally, they weren't.
Well to be specific, about 40 were, and all the rest were seemingly corrupt.
DON'T PANIC! They are still on the memory cards!
WRONG! The silly bitch cut and paste all the photos, thereby removing them in the transfer.
There goes 8GB worth of photos.

My only saving grace (I fucking hope) is that with a bit of luck the actual photos are still on the card but flagged to be overwritten. If this is the case, I may be able to retrieve them using a data recovery program. Hopefully.

Now, fast forward to 10 minutes ago.
I have found a nice net cafe around Khao San Road for 30b an hour. Nice wide screen LCD's, cameras, headsets and built in card readers! Great.
So I jump on and throw in my card. Up pops the auto-read window, and I click to open the card. Oh? What's this?

It shows me that there's an .exe (executable file) on the card and some other folder with a weird name. Oh fuck.
Take it out quickly, and put it in my camera. Surprise surprise! The fucker is corrupt!
The only logical reason I can think of for this to happen, is a virus or similar on the comp that has fucked my card! I try it again in the PC (in vain), only to be told that it's unreadable totally and needs to be formatted.

Once again the fate of hundreds of photos fall into the hands of data recovery.

I shall never use public computers to attempt to upload photos, or use third parties to copy my photos to sticks/DVD's again.