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If you haven't heard of "the cloud", you probably haven't been paying attention to all of the online services that are cropping up online.  If you've used Flickr, Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, or any of the thousands of online tools available today, you've used the cloud.  It's a way of saying that the things you put on those sites are stored "somewhere", but you don't know, or need to care, where it's stored.  It's just in the clouds.  I've always been a little hesitant of putting things "in the cloud".  Living in a rural area, my world isn't quite connected enough that I'm always assured of an internet connection and I don't want that to keep me from being able to get my things.  But I've become more aware of the idea that relying solely on my local hardware for storing my backups of important things is risky to say the least.  Sure you can get a large external backup drive and copy your files to it every so often, or even automatically, but what happens when you your house burns down, or someone robs you and takes the computer and the backup?  Or any other number of catastrophes that could happen when your backup is so close to the source.  What's that?!  You say you aren't backing your digital stuff up?  If you don't have any backup strategy, it's only a matter of time before you get burned by it.  You need to have backups and this article should convince you that the only real way to do it is to keep those backups offsite.    

Dear Sir,
I am a proud alumnus of the University and a proud supporter since graduation. I am writing to you, the clerk of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Senate, to express my displeasure and distress at the wording of your recent resolution concerning the University's mascot. While I completely support a search for a school mascot, I was alarmed to see this body dictating the bounds of the mascot discussion by excluding all Native American symbols. If this search is to be accepted by the students and the citizens of this state, both of which are funding the school, it should be conducted in a manner that is free of political maneuvering and allow the true feelings of the stakeholders to be expressed. I would ask that you pass my concerns on to the Senate members and encourage them to avoid unwelcome limitations on this process.

Respectfully,
Nathan Baxley
BUS 97

I have to say that after being home on paternity leave for two weeks, I'm once again humbled by the number of things that my wife does for our family. While I did manage to get the kids fed and off to school, and keep things somewhat clean, I failed at keeping things running as smoothly as she does time and time again. To top it all off, I found that even though I was doing a fraction of the work, I still felt totally exhausted at the end of the day. I'm going to say to all the dads with stay at home wives, take a week or two in her shoes.

1) Yes, we know what causes this and we quite enjoy it. ;)
2) The first three are the hardest, after that, it just gets louder.
3) No, we don't own a bus, but we're thinking about it.
4) Nope, no twins!
5) Were still looking for a ninth man for our baseball team if you're interested.
6) Girls are definitely harder.
7) Bunk beds!
8) Who can really say when a job is done.
9) Why yes, we are Catholic
10) No, I'm not joking! :)

To Whom It May Concern:

Oracle-like ROWNUM in MySQL

It needs sometimes to exactly mimic Oracle's ROWNUM where is no possibility to initiate a counter in previous statement by

SET @rownum:=0

;.

It is still possible in a single SQL.

SELECT @rownum:=@rownum+1 rownum, t.*FROM (SELECT @rownum:=0) r, mytable t;

archived from Mark Malakanov

A book describing the lives of the 6 men pictured in the Iwo Jima flag raising picture.  The author's father was one of the 6 men.  The book describes each of them from their early days and through their training and their attack on Iwo Jima.  He also follows other members of Easy Company, the company that raised the flag.

So I'm starting Weight Watchers with Sharon, and had a hard time trying to figure out how many points I could eat.  Finally found this calculation at Yahoo Answers:

I hear a lot about the Health Care problem, but most of the solutions that I hear about are Health Insurance, not Health Care.