Bob La Quey wrote:
It is that kind of story.
First the bad news. I spilled a glass of wine on my
laptop ... the damn thing's lights went out :(
Oh clumsy me!
The good news. While not completely backed up
nonetheless I had sent quite a few key files as attachments
to email messages for people I am working with. All of
this using Goggle's GMail. So ... The attachments, hence
the documents are stored on GMail's servers.
Now I may (or may not) be able to recover the laptop.
But most of the critical stuff is on GMail.
I see this as a story that becomes apocryphal. Storing on
GMail certainly has it's problems (why trust Google?). But
given the fact that I am often stretched to thin and do not
do proper backups Google may be the lesser of evils.
This puts me in mind of the story of the early days of developing Linux
when Linus Thorvalds had his computer go down.
He was able to get it back up and recover his lost work from friends he
had been collaborating with over the Internet.
After he was able to pick up from where he left off he quipped 'Who
needs backups when you can use the Internet as your backup drive?'
Gee, maybe that is where some of these schemes to use Google, et al as
on-line storage, eh?
Rick
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