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Have a look at these high resolution images of the Wyoming wildfire. A NASA instrument has captured images of the wildfire burning through Bridger-Teton National Forest in the northwest part of Wyoming. [NASA's Earth Observatory]

Here's a good thread on creating your own themes in Radio.

I'm all packed for my trip to LA. Time for another episode of Joe Frank. I think I'll give Insomnia a try tonight.

Tomorrow, Family & Friends & Pet Shop Boys!

Philanthropy Associates will help you spend your money on a worthy cause. I was hired to create this site and teach the founders how to maintain it on their own.

I'm happy to see that Jim and Patrick are maintaining the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii site.

An old review of the Aiwa TD-UM8000 USB Tape Drive by Donovan Watts.

The Best Way To Prevent Laptop Theft (Low End Mac via Applesurf) [Applesurf]

Chicago Tribune: Files erased in Florida, damaging election review.

"As [Palm Beach County elections officials] prepared for the new election, they wiped out computer files showing how each ballot was punched in the presidential election... The data is especially important because Palm Beach was one of the key counties in the five-week recount process that ultimately sent President Bush to the White House... The punch card ballots themselves were not destroyed but cannot be accurately recounted because they have been extensively handled and possibly damaged since Election Day."

Seems to me that there's an awareness problem here. Most people are probably used to thinking of computer data as less tangible, and more temporary than data on hard-copy. Somehow this makes its preservation less important, but clearly in this case it's more important, since the originals degrade with handling (a.k.a. data access). Museum curators have known for a long, long time that you don't let your visitors handle delicate originals -- you let them have a facsimile instead. Maybe the Palm Beach County elections folks understand a little better now, why you keep backup copies of important data.
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[Jake's Brainpan]

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