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Backing up files has always been a tedious and wearisome process. We put it off like a yearly trip to the dentist.

While in fact, it simply never gets done. Discover Confiture — the simple escape from file loss problems.

The combination of social networking with public messaging, link posting, and subscriptions leads to impressive synergy effects, but there is also the drawback of information overload, information loss, distraction, and content redundancy.

A book made while in The Netherlands, using the concept of loss to generate new paths and

discovery. The book was designed and produced democratically with four other students (Casper Glorious, Willem van de Ven, Eike Dingler & Stephanie Rudolf) by cut & paste layouts, screenprinted A1 paper, folded down to a booklet.

Dans les les commentaires, à propos de l'usage du mot 'Cloud' à tout va:

how is this considered cloud computing?!

this is a simple web site that had its web server + data storage fucked. if they contracted all these things out to say amazon s3 or ec2, then we could call this cloud where it's more of an enterprise game (and basically them renting compute and storage in a big hunking datacenter somewhere with some makeup that you don't know about). there's nothing wrong with cloud, don't confuse the issue...

Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 30th, Ma.gnolia experienced every web service's worst nightmare: data corruption and loss. For Ma.gnolia, this means that the service is offline and members' bookmarks are unavailable, both through the website itself and the API. As I evaluate recovery options, I can't provide a certain timeline or prognosis as to to when or to what degree Ma.gnolia or your bookmarks will return; only that this process will take days, not hours.

Most importantly, I apologize to all of you who have made Ma.gnolia a home for your bookmarks and community. I know that many of you rely on Ma.gnolia in your day to day work and play to safely host you bookmarks, keeping them available around the clock, and that this is a difficult disruption.

C'est moche :-/

Sony, the Japanese electronics company, said Thursday that it expected to post a record annual operating loss of nearly $3 billion because of the rapid deterioration of the global economy. It also announced a major restructuring that will include layoffs and factory closings.

“Can you remember where you were when John F. Kennedy was shot? What you were doing when you heard the news?” For my parents’ generation, the assassination of JFK was such a major event that nearly everyone of their age can answer these questions with “Yes”. A moment in history that is anchored to collective feelings of shock, loss and mourning.

As well as the complete breakaway of the Markham, the Serson shelf lost two sections totalling an estimated 122 sq km (47 sq miles), and the break-up of the Ward Hunt has continued.

While women hold 51 percent of professional jobs in the United States, they make up only 26 percent of the IT work force, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. Furthermore, fewer women worked in IT in 2008 than in 2000. But the loss of women in the technology field begins long before they reach the professional level. The proportion of CS (computer science) bachelor's degrees awarded to women has fallen from 36 to 21 percent between 1983 and 2006.