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Secure online storage of files

Public Service Announcement for today: The best place to store work related files would be your G: or N: drive. This data is replicated across multiple hard-drives on our servers using RAID. We also back this data up to tape which is stored in the Curris Business Building. Once a month a FULL backup is done for all data on your G: and N: drives, stored to tape and then sent to a bank vault on main street in Cedar Falls.

For home use, I would normally recommend portable hard-drives and flash drives. If you have things you need kept off-site, in case of fire or tornado, you can use online storage services. Here is a link to 90 sites that will store files for a small fee: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/introduction-to-90-online-file-storage-services.html

For personal photos I use http://www.flickr.com and for files I use http://www.jungledisk.com/

With a $20 per year pro account, you can send unlimited photos to flickr (owned by Yahoo). With 4GB of storage on Jungle Disk (uses Amazon's Servers) and moving 400mb worth of data to it each month, I pay $.68/month to have files backed up, away from my house and spread across many many Amazon Servers. I store my files using encryption, so no one can see them but me.

You can also move things to flash drives and keep them at work and home and in a firebox etc.. There are many ways to store files and if you have any questions please contact me. I know how many hours it takes to make classroom materials/lectures so keeping them safe is very important.

-Mark

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Real Clear Markets Article

The Good News you Missed on Food Prices Definitely worth a read. Once again, the media is not doing it's job and giving us the facts regarding food prices.

The Monster and the Sausages

Asia Times Online Article

The monster is not the financial system, crooked and stupid as it may have been. The monster is the burgeoning horde of pensioners in Germany and other industrial countries. It is easy to change the financial system. The central banks can assemble on any Tuesday morning and announce tougher lending standards. But it is impossible to fix the financial problems that arise from Europe's senescence. Thanks to the one-child policy, moreover, China has a relatively young population that is aging faster than any other, and China's appetite for savings vastly exceeds what its own financial market can offer.

Ansel Adam's Yosemite

NY Times Interactive "Hear the backstory on the photographer's iconic images from his former assistant Andrea G. Stillman, development director for The Morgan Library and Museum."

Coca Cola Commercial

Great Commercial

Nation building the U.S.

Who Will Tell the People? I strongly agree with this article. If we would invest $100 billion into nuclear energy, the resulting amount of cheap energy would spur this country into the stratosphere for new technology and business. If we would fix our horrible roads, build bridges that won't collapse, and put millions/billions into new energy for vehicles, you'd make the U.S. very very competitive. This is very similar to an issue in Black Hawk County. The county had to raise taxes to pay for road construction. Say what? Someone has been asleep, instead of doing some serious planning. Which can also be said of our politicians in Washington D.C.

Serious about lawn mowing

This person is serious about mowing their lawn

High Gas Prices

U.S. gas: So cheap it hurts Europe = $8/gallon, U.S. = $3.45/gallon

Congressman lease luxury cars, paid for by taxpayers

You may not realize it, but members of the House of Representatives can lease a car and have it paid for by you -- the taxpayer. And it's not just the car, but gas, registration, insurance … the works. And as CBS 2 HD found out, there's no limit on how much they can spend. *sigh* And yet....the Ron Paul Revolution failed. Wake up America.