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Golfing on a Aircraft Carrier

Now for something completely different, of the photoshop variety. I must say this is pretty clever and a tip of the hat to the creator-whom I can’t seem to find.

The link for the image sent ne here, then that link sent me to here. So I was not able to find out who is the artist/creator of this image. No luck.

So; my guess, it was created for some contest on Worth1000.com. If this great image is not from there I don’t know where it’s from. Wherever it’s from I really would like to acknowledge the creator.

Why was it on BLDGBLOG?

Geoff was posting about how the last Ice Age, and the subsequent landscapes-led(in a round about way) to the 1st golf courses created in Scotland.

From there that topography had golf course designers borrowing the same formed landscapes and re-creating that typography around the World, it’s a very informative read.

The above image was at the end of the post as kind of an exclamation point and was a good ending.

“Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore’, shoot six, and write down five.” — Paul Harvey

Ice Age, Glacial fields, kettle ponds, moraines, Scottish sheep shepherds, Indian Burial Mounds, bulldozers, golf fanatics, and designers all the way to images on Aircraft Carriers via photoshop . . . it sure is an interesting world we live in.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

When your laptop goes down with the plane

You've heard the warnings: It's not if you'll lose vital data through some hard drive catastrophe but when. So backing up files is critical. As passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 have discovered, you may want to consider a backup service in the "cloud."

Few people suffer data loss in quite as harrowing a fashion as Bill Wiley. He was a second row passenger on the plane that was famously forced to make an emergency landing on the Hudson River. The passengers all survived the crash, of course. But Wiley still hasn't recovered the two computers he had on board, containing about 250 gigabytes of data from his employer Computer Associates.

Wiley had been good about backing up files on the two computers by sharing the contents of one hard drive with the other. He also kept data on thumb drives. And he rarely traveled with both machines, but had to in this case because of an assignment. "I had no idea how screwed I was about to be," he recalls.

Fellow passenger Paul Jorgensen was more fortunate, at least when it came to his computer. The night before the flight, Jorgensen backed up "a ton of data" on his IBM ThinkPad via a business account his employer had with the Mozy online backup service. Jorgensen works for Epocrates, a producer of medical software.

"Pretty quickly after I realized I was 100% safe [on the ferry] I realized I was going to be in pretty deep trouble without that laptop," says Jorgensen, who had been seated in the first row of the plane. "My life is in that laptop."

Within a day, Mozy sent him 6 DVDs with recovered data. "The accident was on a Thursday. By Monday I was completely back up and running."

Mozy says it stores more than 10 petabytes of data (roughly 500 trillion pages of text). The company charges home users $4.95 a month for backup. Businesses pay $3.95 per month for each license, plus 50 cents per GB. You can restore data for free over the Web but must pay a fee for a DVD.

My own experience is nowhere near as dramatic. But I too recently lost crucial files on my home computer that I was able to restore with an online subscription to Carbonite. Consumers pay $55 a year for this life preserver.

Wiley has since signed with Mozy. (Full disclosure: USA TODAY got in touch with the two passengers after being contacted by Mozy. Though neither works with the company, Mozy gave Wiley a comp subscription, and waived the fee for Jorgensen's DVDs.) The episode, he says, left him with a new meaning for the term crash.

By Edward Baig
Photo: Passengers are rescued after a U.S. Airways plane crashed into the Hudson River in New York January 15, 2009. (Eric Thayer/Reuters)

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