Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Friday, May 13, 2011

You Get What You Pay For

Google's blogging service (where this blog is) was out of commission for about 24 hours. Oh, you could read stuff, but you couldn't write new posts or comment on them. A post I uploaded yesterday morning has apparently gone into the Great Byte Bucket in the Sky.

This is sort of like "cloud computing", in that everything is on-line. It kind of sucks not to be able to do anything because you can't access your data.

Which might give you some second thoughts about using Goggle's new Chromebook. It would be a lot of fun to have an urgent project and be shut out of your files because of some glitch somewhere in California.

1 comment:

Chuck Pergiel said...

Yeah, it makes me a little nervous too. On the other hand, my own computer goes out to lunch on a regular basis due to some kind of malfunction. It's usually a virus, but one of these days it's liable to be hardware. So far, Google has been more reliable.

On the other hand, I also have an external hard drive connected via a USB port, and once a month I pull up last months blog posts and save the entire html page to it.

I think it extremely unlikely that my external hard drive AND Google will both flake out simultaneously.

More likely I will forget to save last months work. Actually, it's probably been a couple of months.