Just a couple quick notes:
The Nokia n95 camera has a lousy autofocus. I was taking a fairly static, moderately well lit shot of a row of buildings (plenty of sharp angles and contrasts to detect,) and the infernal software repeatedly failed to focus. I stood there for more than a minute before the focus indicator turned green, indicating a successful focus lock. While the camera sports exposure compensation, the user is not given a manual focus option. You can instruct the camera to use a scene mode, but there is no way of communicating to the software that you'd like a particular focus.
On the LaCie front, I found that the power supply on my older LaCie Etherdisk Mini was bad. Replacing the supply with one from the oldest (the one with the bearing problem) solved this issue. This re-establishes one layer of my backups. I also started using Time Machine with my Apple Airport Extreme and a locally attached USB disk (500GB.) We'll see how that works out.

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