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Un tour du Magic

Is there a program that will allow MTGO for the Itouch?

C.R. Avery [Magic Hour Sailor Songs]

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Neil Gaiman's Journal

- 16 hours ago

div style="margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 10px;"posted by Neil/div a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6L1zPW0YW7k/SSdHmeCUOwI/AAAAAAAAL9c/6ucLxvezjQQ/s1600-h/Coraline-movie-poster.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6L1zPW0YW7k/SSdHmeCUOwI/AAAAAAAAL9c/6ucLxvezjQQ/s400/Coraline-movie-poster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271260615083834114" border="0" //abr /There's an official CORALINE trailer out....br /br /object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nZI3X8advPYamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nZI3X8advPYamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/objectbr /br /It's out in English, but this version of it is it in Italian. Because everything sounds better in Italian.br /br /A few of you have written in asking if I'd done an Alan Moore and taken my name off the film, or if I'd had a falling out with the studio, as my name isn't mentioned in this trailer, just Henry Selick's -- and no, not at all. Nobody's name except Henry's is mentioned in the trailer, and that has more to do with Focus wanting to make sure that if they invoked span style="font-style: italic;"The Nightmare Before Xmas/span, people wouldn't then assume this was a Tim Burton film, and go and see it -- or stay away -- based on that. (On the international poster -- above -- you won't find my namespan style="font-style: italic;" or /spanHenry's.) I suppose it's a marketing decision.br /br /I chatted to Henry today, and am really looking forward to seeing a finished film -- the last twenty minutes of the thing weren't done the last time I was sent anything. And it has music...br /br /Incidentally, thea href="http://www.amazon.com/Coraline-Movie-Collectors-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0061649708/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8amp;s=booksamp;qid=1227317385amp;sr=1-1" Coraline Movie edition /ais now out, with an essay by me in the back, and another by Henry Selick...br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513N7j%2Bs8bL._SS500_.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 500px;" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513N7j%2Bs8bL._SS500_.jpg" alt="" border="0" //abr /br /I've now assembled the same list of passwords for the CORALINE website -- a href="http://www.coraline.com/"www.coraline.com/a -- that a href="http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/683120.html"everyone else with access to a search engine has/a:br /br /span style="font-style: italic;"span style="font-weight: bold;"stopmotion /span: the Biggest Smallest movie ever made.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"buttoneyes/span : Meet the cast...br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"moustachio /span: Bo Henry, art director of Coraline, shows off his remarkable moustache tricks.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"armpithair /span: Every hair in the film was placed there by hand...br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"puppetlove/span : Director Henry Selick explains what it must be like for the puppets in the film.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"sweaterxxs/span : Micro-knitting. That's right: micro-knitting./spanbr /br /...br /br /A small collection of MAD fold-ins are up at a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/28/arts/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/28/arts/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html/a. I cannot imagine a better time-waster than if someone were to put every span style="font-style: italic;"Mad/span Fold-in up on line. I could click my way through them forever...br /br /...br /br /I've started playing with the T-mobile G1. First reactions -- I like it, mostly. It feels good in your hand. It's reasonably intuitive. (Bizarrely, when it isn't intuitive and I've had to head into manual land, the phone's software and the PDF of the manual do not always agree with each other.) I've had fun making ring tones, creating galleries. The way that your contacts list is also your Gmail contacts is mostly terrific (although it won't let me create entries that have the same email address as someone already on the list).br /br /The things I don't like about it so far seem huge and obvious: no Blogger app (when there's a LiveJournal app and several others) seems a huge omission, seeing it's from Google; it can't read or open PDF files yet; you can send it pictures and watch them as a slideshow, but you can't save them; the built in Gmail app can't do anywhere near the things that the gmail program on my N73 can do; the camera is about the same standard as the iPhone's, which is to say, a bit span style="font-style: italic;"meh/span. I like having a real keyboard but wish it was a tiny bit bigger -- I find myself typing with fingernails. Battery life is fine unless you've got Wifi on.br /br /More reactions after it's been on the road with me and been used for a bit.br /br /...br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Hi Neil,br /br /I just had a quick question on the span style="font-style: italic;"Who Killed Amanda Palmer/span book. I have the album already (and have listened to it countless times. It's beautiful).br /br /I was going to go and order the book, but when I went to the site, I found that the book seems to only be in packages. I was wondering if there are any plans to sell the book alone, or whether I should buy one of the packages. The extra CD could make a nice gift.br /br /Thanks,br /Nate/spanbr /br /Let's see... the book is being desgned right now, then it goes off to the printers. The people who bought the package version will get theirs first. Depending on where in the world it's printed, this could be a couple of months before anyone else. Then, when copies come in from the printer, they'll go on sale -- probably in the early Spring. I think.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Neil!br /br /I'm re-reading American Gods, and I'm at the point where Shadow first meets Sam. At the diner, Shadow reads a newspaper story saying "local farmers wanted to hang dead crows around the town to frighten the others away; ornithologists said it wouldn't work, that the living crows would simply eat the dead ones. The locals were implacable. 'When they see the corpses of their friends,' said a spokesman, 'they'll know we don't want them here.'"br /br /Neil, I don't have Time Enough for Love here at school, but wasn't there something very similar to that in that story? Was your dead crow story a little Heinlein homage?br /br /And OMG - just realized that Sam's last name is Black Crow, and that story was about crows. Wow. Sneaky of you.br /br /Chrisbr /br //spanbr /br /When I'm driving through small-town America I make a point of buying local papers in towns where I stop, and reading them, preferably in local coffee shops. I read that in a small town as I went, and thought "It belongs in my book". So I put it there.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Dear Mr Gaiman,br /I recently finished reading M is For Magic, and I have a question about the story Chivalry. Sir Galahad was considered the holiest of Arthur's knights; so, how coul he have obtained an apple from the garden of the Hespiredes? The Hespiredes were a part of greek mythology which was actually a religeon based on monotheism. So, how could he get something that his religeon said didn't exist? I am sorry to bother you with this question, but it has sparked my interest.br /br / - a young and curious reader/spanbr /br /He had to travel a long way.br /br /I don't think it would have been a problem for early Christians, of whom Galaad would have been one: in span style="font-style: italic;"The Golden Legend/span, which was the most popular book of stories about saints, collected in the thriteenth century, Saint Nicholas (the one who became Santa Claus) went up against the Goddess Diana. Then again, Narnia, a most monotheistic world, had more than its share of nymphs (just like the Hesperides) not to mention such gods as Bacchus and Silenus (and Santa Claus again) wandering around. So I would not worry about it, were I you.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"I loved the link to the Sandman Death 20th Anniversary Bookends you put up.br /When should they be coming out and how much of a dent will they put on my wallet, please?/spanbr /br /According to a quick Google, a href="http://www.toymania.com/news/messages/9960.shtml"http://www.toymania.com/news/messages/9960.shtml/a says they came out in September, and they will cost a wallet-twinging $295. (Ouch.) There are only a thousand of them.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"This one has almost nothing to do with you Neil, but since his website is still in the makings I thought you could perhaps forward this to him.br /I was very sad (like a child whose told there won't be a Christmas this year) to learn that Dave McKean's appearance this weekend in Buenos Aires was canceled.br /In the event's blog they posted Dave's email in which he mentioned he couldn't make it because a date was changed (which sounds reasonable). But it remained unclear if it was the date of ANIMATE (the Buenos Aires event) which was changed, or if it was one of Dave's previous engagements./spanbr /br /Dave McKean said...br /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Hi Neil,br /br /Please post this, as I certainly do feel very bad letting people down:br /br /I agreed to go to Animate in the summer and had to organize a militarybr /operation of friends and family to take care of our son Liam duringbr /the proposed week, as he is appearing as Gavroche in Les Miserables inbr /London and has to be accompanied to and from the theatre each day he'sbr /on, and also be available on 12 hours notice every day in case anotherbr /actor drops out.br /We managed this, so both Clare and I could make the trip to Buenosbr /Aires, a city we've always wanted to visit.br /Unfortunately, the date was changed by the organizers, and so we hadbr /to re-arrange.br /More importantly, it became obvious that the festival was nowbr /colliding with a variety of previous commitments falling in the latterbr /half of November, so I decided with great sadness to withdraw thisbr /year.br /I hate letting people down, and I was really looking forward to thebr /trip (though not the 24 hours travelling each way, I admit!).br /br /Hopefully there will be another event, an animation or film festival,br /that will allow me to visit the city in the future. Or maybe we'llbr /just go for a holiday, and do a signing in a bookstore.br /br /Thanks,br /Dave/spanbr /br /(I think it's worth pointing out that ten-year old Liam McKean -- owner of the original Pig Puppet -- is in span style="font-style: italic;"Les Miserables/span in London. If you happen to go and see it, check if he's in your performance. Get his autograph. Mention pigs. Make his day.) And that reminds me...br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Hi Neil,br /br /I thought you might like to let people know that Dave McKean is on the BBC4 programme "Picture Book" talking about his illustations for David Almond's 'The Savage' and how he was inspired by Comic Book's art. The programme is airing (again) at 19.10 on Saturday and 3.30 on Sunday, and is also currently available on the BBC i-player. a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fhnb6/comingup"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fhnb6/comingup/abr /br /Thank you again for all the stories,br /br /Marjorie/spanbr /br /You're welcome.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Hi,br /br /Just read that you completed "the Dying Earth story." Huh? Is there a new collection of Dying Earth stories coming out? Is it an homage to Jack Vance's work, or what?br /br /Did a search for "dying earth" on your website and saw no other mention of it.br /br /Thanks,br /Chrisbr /br //spanspanIt's for a href="http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PRODamp;Product_Code=martin07amp;Category_Code=PREamp;Product_Count=24"this/a./spanspan style="font-weight: bold;"br //spanbr /...br /br /And finally, Larry Marder talks about why a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/NEIL-GAIMAN-SANDMAN-Sketch-With-Larry-Marder_W0QQitemZ140282064832QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item140282064832amp;_trksid=p3911.c0.m14amp;_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318"the drawing we did together/a is so special at a href="http://larrymarder.blogspot.com/2008/11/neil-gaimanlarry-marder-drawing-up-for.html"http://larrymarder.blogspot.com/2008/11/neil-gaimanlarry-marder-drawing-up-for.html/a. div class="label_list" style="margin-top: 20px; padding-left: 15px; text-indent: -15px; font-size: 78%/1.4em; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: .1em;"strongLabels:/strongnbsp; a href="http://journal.neilgaiman.com/search/label/Coraline%20movie" style="color: #999; text-transform: uppercase;"Coraline movie/a, a href="http://journal.neilgaiman.com/search/label/liam%20mckean" style="color: #999; text-transform: uppercase;"liam mckean/a, a href="http://journal.neilgaiman.com/search/label/Jack%20Vance" style="color: #999; text-transform: uppercase;"Jack Vance/a, a href="http://journal.neilgaiman.com/search/label/Dave%20McKean" style="color: #999; text-transform: uppercase;"Dave McKean/a, a href="http://journal.neilgaiman.com/search/label/crows" style="color: #999; text-transform: uppercase;"crows/a, a href="http://journal.neilgaiman.com/search/label/why%20I%20was%20disappointed%20they%20cut%20Bacchus%20out%20of%20the%20Prince%20Caspian%20Movie" style="color: #999; text-transform: uppercase;"why I was disappointed they cut Bacchus out of the Prince Caspian Movie/a, a href="http://journal.neilgaiman.com/search/label/G1" style="color: #999; text-transform: uppercase;"G1/a/div

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10 Gadgets That Will Trip You Out Without Drugs [Thank Giz It's Friday]

Gizmodo

- 18 hours and 23 minutes ago

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/tripping.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="600" height="451" style="display:block;" /Who says you need drugs to have a good time? All you need is an open mind and a little imagination to tap into the psychedelic potential of your brain. Oh, and gadgets like the 10 featured here can definitely help. Even if they don't work, just remember that even without the drugs you still have sex and rock n' roll. That should be enough for anyone./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/fiber-optic-wallpaper_02.jpg" class="center" width="537" height="452" style="display:block;" /Fiber Optic Wallpaper: Designer Camilla Diedrich has added a 21st century upgrade to drab old wallpaper by adding intricate designs illuminated with fiber optics. It's a cool ideamdash;but I would still opt for a fresh coat of paint. [a href="http://www.bodieandfou.com/productdetail.asp?prod=NATURE_RAY_CHARLES_-_BLUEpid=641cat=13subcat=104#"Bodie and Fou/a via a href="http://gizmodo.com/5084729/fiber-optics-may-change-the-way-you-view-wallpaper"Link/a]/p pobject width="494" height="400"param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1378892amp;server=vimeo.comamp;show_title=1amp;show_byline=1amp;show_portrait=0amp;color=amp;fullscreen=1" embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1378892amp;server=vimeo.comamp;show_title=1amp;show_byline=1amp;show_portrait=0amp;color=amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="494" height="400"/objectPrimal Source Fountain: Earlier this year artist Usman Haque tripped out all of Santa Monica, CA with a fountain projection that resembled a drug-induced hallucination. [a href="http://gizmodo.com/5027229/primal-source-fountain-provides-hallucinations-without-drugs"Link/a]/p pobject width="494" height="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QRrxKlS8gkgcolor1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcffs=1" param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QRrxKlS8gkgcolor1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcffs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="494" height="400"/objectGenso Kukan Aurora Simulator: This gadget claims to simulate the aurora borealis or "northern lights" on the walls in your home. The 6-inch tall Genso Kukan Aurora also features a 30-minute sleep timer to gently send you off on your own mystical journey through the mind. Plus, you will get a lot more mileage out of the $66 price tag than you would using it to purchase mind-bending substances. [a href="http://www.himeyashop.com/product_info.php/products_id/5817"HimeyaShop/a via a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/battery+powered-aurora-light-projector-simulates-northern-lights-an-iffy-proposition-249975.php"Link/a]/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/led_table.jpg" class="center" width="478" height="277" style="display:block;" /Wave LED Coffee Table: The Wave table utilizes 32 near-infrared sensors to detect movement and follow it with trails of light and color from 480 LEDs. As you move your hand or your glass over the surface of the table, the LEDs follow alongmdash;allowing you to enjoy a similar experience as a stoner that becomes momentarily captivated by the movement of his own hands. Tables can be made to order for around $1800-$2000. [a href="http://www.becausewecan.org/LED_Coffee_Table_The_Wave"Because We Can/a via a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/geek-furniture/the-wave-led-coffee-table-provides-motion+seeking-light-show-278959.php"Link/a]/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/magic-expanding-bunny.jpg" class="center" width="400" height="400" style="display:block;" /Magic Mushroom and the Incredible Expanding Bunny: Stare at the hypnotic spinning disc for around 20 seconds and then direct your eyes towards the magic mushroom and the bunny. Magically, they will both expand before your eyes. Available for around $6. [a href="http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/magic-expanding-toys/index.html#top"iwoot/a]/p pobject width="494" height="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Bbgo72EqfNccolor1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcffs=1" param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Bbgo72EqfNccolor1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcffs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="494" height="400"/objectHyposurface: These fabric and plastic walls are driven by thousands of mechanical pistons to create a morphing movement that is mesmerizing to watch in action. I tell you what, you had better be drug-free when standing in the midst of one of these Hyposurface wallsmdash;otherwise it will freak...you...out. [a href="http://www.hyposurface.org/"Hyposurface/a via a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/tripping-display/hyposurface-display-makes-walls-dance-and-look-pretty-290919.php"Link/a]/p pscript type="text/javascript" newVideoPlayer("altered_gizmodo.flv", 475, 376,""); /scriptThe Good-Old Fashioned Isolation Tank: Nothing offers a drug-free hallucination better than a sensory deprivation or "isolation" tank. Just ask comedian and sober-stoner Joe Rogan. Earlier this year he gave away his old tank, and he can be seen here gushing about its psychedelic potential. [a href="http://gizmodo.com/361693/isolation-tank-makes-you-hallucinate-get-one-free-become-a-nutcase"Link/a]/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/ganzfeld_01.jpg" width="216" height="148" class="left"Ganzfeld Hallucinations: Isolation tanks are great, but unless you get a hand out from Joe Rogan they are going to be a tad expensive. Not so with this little DIY project. All you need is a pair of headphones and a ping pong ball that has been cut in half. Apparently, if you place the ping pong ball over your eyes and listen to white noise through the headphones, you will be in for a mind altering experience. Being a burn-out probably helps with this one. [a href="http://gizmodo.com/5092869/headphones-playing-white-noise-and-a-ping-pong-ball-let-you-trip-sans-drugs"Link/a]/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/disco-bath.jpg" class="center" width="500" height="500" style="display:block;" /Disco Bath: Place one of these mini-waterproof LED lightshows into your bath, sit back and let the psychedelic color patterns take control of your mind. Pre-order for $13. [a href="http://www.firebox.com/product/2031/Underwater-Disco-Lightshow?src_t=vid"Firebox/a via a href="http://gizmodo.com/383991/disco-bath-means-theres-a-party-in-my-tub-and-youre-all-invited"Link/a]/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/eyecandy_relax_01.jpg" class="center" width="494" height="326" style="display:block;" /Eye Candy USB Lollipop: According to the product page, this curious confectionery "uses cutting edge Sensory Substitution Technology to transmit vivid emotive images into your mind's eye." It's based on "scientific" research conducted in the 1970s that the brain can accept certain forms of non-visual stimuli and transform it into a visual image. Using a charge via USB, Eye Candy lays down a matrix of small electrical pulses on your tongue in the shape of an object. Theoretically, you should be able to "see" the object it traces. Now here is where it really gets interesting...the pops come in six flavors designed to help you achieve the "right state of mind." For example: the pop can trace the image of a spider on your tongue to help you overcome your fears. Although the product is not currently available, the goal is to have Eye Candy out sometime in the near future at a cost of around $90. 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[App Store Release] Emma and the Magic Ark - Nick Watson - Talkie Book

Runes of Magic: Nouvelle zone : Dragonfang Ridge

Magic : Enfin une date pour Jace vs. Chandra

Dark Side of the Cloud

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pimg alt="Dark Cloud" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/imgDarkCloud.jpg" width="150" height="102" /For all the optimism surrounding the potential of computing in the cloud - lower costs, better performance, easier scaling - it isn't a perfect system. No matter how distributed and redundant the architecture or how rigorous the backup system, when it comes right down to it, there's a complex series of hoops through which the data has to jump to travel between the user and where it actually resides on a piece of physical hardware. And when a segment of that process fails, all the benefits of the cloud suddenly seem all the less magical./p pTake a recent unfortunate situation for a href="http://ylastic.com/"Ylastic/a, a company that provides a single front-end to manage Amazon Web Services, who was recently an unwillingly participant in one of these cloud bursts./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12671amp;cb=12671' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12671amp;n=12671' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p pYlastic noticed something strange occurring with one of the a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/"Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)/a a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/"Elastic Block Stores (EBS)/a, a service that is "particularly suited for applications that require a database, file system, or access to raw block level storage."/p centerimg alt="imgYlastic01.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/imgYlastic01.jpg" width="600" height="227" //center pBut something wasn't quite right. And over the course of a few hours the story played out a href="http://twitter.com/ylastic/"via Twitter/a as Ylastic noticed issues with its EBS instances./p centerimg alt="imgYlastic02.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/imgYlastic02.jpg" width="600" height="226" //center pWhen the problem was finally identified, Ylastic discovered that the data could not be recovered. They were forced to recover from an earlier snapshot, that contained only a subset of the data. /p centerimg alt="imgYlastic03.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/imgYlastic03.jpg" width="600" height="224" //center pFinally, after recovering what data they could, Ylastic had to go to its customers with the unfortunate message:/p blockquote"AWS has finally terminated the frozen instances. But the EBS volume is still detaching and has been for hours. It doesn't seem like we will be able to get into it at this point. Some time in the last month or so, our EBS snapshotting of this stuck volume seems to have stopped working correctly.... We have gone back and run through all the snapshots, and the last good snapshot that we have is from October 1."/blockquote pWho was at fault? Amazon? Ylastic? Truly, no one. It was simply a combination of issues. A perfect storm in the cloud, as it were. And that perfect storm resulted in data loss for Ylastic and its customer base./p pDoes this mean we should run screaming from the potential the cloud holds? No, absolutely not. But it's an unfortunate reminder that the system is far from perfect and that those who are relying on the cloud to serve critical aspects of their business should be ever diligent to ensure that the data is being backed up./p pFor all the technical magic of the cloud, it's still the basics of data management that matter most./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/dark_side_of_the_cloud.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/UPQZyf5OfuY5Xe_IhJ-dAyXiJug/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/UPQZyf5OfuY5Xe_IhJ-dAyXiJug/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=T3IpUFrU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1035" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=h0Y7902c"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=TYPCMZ03"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=TYPCMZ03" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=BBHfdYrh"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=BBHfdYrh" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=CILctkfl"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=CILctkfl" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=MC6ZRbBH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=MjbJGkqN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1034" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/AY4dURXbHOA" height="1" width="1"/

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