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Archive for June, 2009
NASA Footage Found!
NASA had lost their tapes of the 1969 Apollo moon landing, but has since found them again! It’s amazing how things seem to reappear after 40 years. :] Check the link
Free isn’t a criteria
From Lifehacker.com jsmorley comments Sorry, but I don’t use “free” as a criteria for protecting my valuable data. I don’t use “free” as a criteria for finding a doctor or lawyer either. I use Acronis True Image Home and don’t plan to switch. It has saved my butt many times over the years.
Most Ironic Day ever
So here’s my tale of the most ironic day I’ve had during graduate school. Last quarter I was taking a Digital Preservation class. We talked about data migration, emulation, and some other ways of preserving data. And, sometimes, data just becomes corrupted and nothing works. Rediscovering the need for backups and such, I thought to myself, “I’m […]
First year of grad school
So now that I’ve had somewhat of a break, I can now begin to process my first year in graduate school. Here are some things I’ve learned: 1. I work better when caffeinated. First quarter I drank coffee nearly every day. When I didn’t, I started having headaches: a sign of caffeine addiction. However this past […]
Awesome quote
Today I was debating whether or not to buy a subscription to 30 Rock Season 3 on iTunes, and decided to find out how would I back up those files. While trolling through some forums.. I found a response post from a person saying: Digital files are like those little bits that Pac Man eats. […]
Structural Organization Win!
This quarter in my Organizational Management class (excellent class I have to say) we were given an assignment to pick a move and evaluate it according to 4 types of frameworks. Structural, Human Resource, Political, and Symbolic. After this assignment, I can’t stop thinking about the managerial issues that are in movies. Check out “Reframing […]
funny teacher quotes
I thought i’d be nice to post up funny quotes my teachers have said: (SeaMonkey is a mozilla browser variant) teacher: “What’s the difference between Firefox and SeaMonkey?” student: “SeaMonkey sucks” In my digital preservation class teacher: How much porn do you want to capture? … ALL of it right? This IS library school..
Preservation and Nuclear Disaster
I’m not sure why, but I can’t stop getting a kick out of this video