[lace-chat] weather surprises
further to our talk on weather around the world, the UK just suffered a tornado, nothing on the scale of the ones the US suffers from but I wouldn't have liked to have been in it's path http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4725279.stm jenny barron Scotland To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Back ups: was: If you have no web site
At 08:49 AM 7/27/05 +0100, Jean Nathan wrote: Hadn't thought of backing up to a web site, but then I don't think I like the idea - it's out of my control then. It's also out of the house -- if your DVDs are in the same room with your computer, all your copies could be destroyed in the same incident. Some of the professional writers on rec.arts.sf.composition aren't happy unless at least one of their back-up copies is on a different *continent*. A web site is no place to park files someone would make an effort to read (though I believe that our ISP supplies secure filespace for an extra fee), but it's a good place for files that are precious only to you -- pictures taken on a trip you saved up fifty years to be able to take, for example. Some folks say if the house burns down, my unfinished manuscripts are going to be the least of my worries -- but most folks poke around in the ashes hoping that *something* escaped. It makes sense to save anything that's easy to save. For financial records, I recall the joke about the electrical engineer who, when someone asked what was currently the best insulator, said The same as it's always been: ten feet of fresh air. The best firewall is a physical break in the connection -- don't keep sensitive files on a computer that's hard-wired into the net. And once a month, mail a DVD to someone who can be trusted to incinerate it when he gets the next one. (Or overwrite it with his data and mail it back, if it's that sort of DVD.) Or if it's *really* sensitive, deliver it yourself. My mother's prescriptions were saved, once, because her pharmacist made a habit of taking a set of floppies home with him every night. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where I woke up yesterday to hear the air conditioner NOT running. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Talking to a bush
I may have seen this one before - can't remember... From: L.F. Recently, while going through an airport during one of his many trips, President Bush encountered a man with long hair, wearing a white robe and sandals and holding a staff. President Bush went up to the man and said, Aren't you Moses? The man never answered but just kept staring straight ahead. Again the President said Moses! in a loud voice. The man just kept staring ahead, never answering the president. Bush pulled a Secret Service agent aside and pointing to the robed man and asked him, Doesn't that man look like Moses to you? The Secret Service agent agreed. Well, said the President, every time I say his name, he just keeps staring straight ahead and refuses to speak. Watch ! Again the President yelled, Moses ! and again the man stared ahead and didn't answer. The Secret Service agent went up to the man in the white robe and whispered, You look just like Moses, are you Moses? The man leaned over and whispered back, Yes I am Moses. However, the last time I talked to a bush I spent 40 years wondering in the desert and ended up leading my people to the only spot in the middle east where there was no oil. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: The snorer
Now *this one* I have not seen before (dare say some of you might have. If so, don't bother telling me g) From: L.F. Four guys from Lake Aasgaard went up to Northern Minnesota fishing. To save a little money, they rented a small cabin that had only two bedrooms. Well, Arne sleeps with Ole the first night and he comes to breakfast in the morning with his hair a mess, and his eyes all bloodshot. They say, Vat happen to you? Arne says, That Ole, he snores so loud, I vas kept avake vatching him all night. I can't do dat 'nother night so vun of you's got to do it. Since Ole snores so loudly, no one else wants to room with him, but they finally agree to take turns. The next night is Oscar's turn. In the morning, same thing -- hair all standing up, eyes all bloodshot. Oscar declares, Fer sure, dat Ole shakes da roof. And he sleeps so hard, I couldn't vake him. I vatched him all night. The third night was Sven's turn. Next morning Sven comes to breakfast bright eyed and bushy tailed. They can't believe it! They say, Vat happened? Sven says, Vell, ve get ready for bed. I go und tuck Ole into bed and kiss him good night and den I pat him on da butt. Den he vatches me all night. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Back ups: was: If you have no web site
Periodically I cut a CD in triplicate; keep one at home, put one in the safety deposit box at the bank, and squirrel one away in my desk at work. It won't help if we are ground zero in a nuclear attack, but if they break into the house and take everything computer-related or lightning strikes the house, it should help. Important files I back up immediately to another machine between the CDs. -- -- Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Michigan To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
