Shakin' the Family Tree

There's almost always a work-around...

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:23:07 GMT

I was antsy for a few days because I could not post comments to Blogger blogs. (You'd have to know me in real life to understand just how chatty I am.)

The people I talked to about the problem had all sorts of suggestions and questions - even some where I'd part with some cash for diagnostics.

As an aside, now I ask you...why is one of the first suggestions *always* clear your cache? I mean seriously, how many times that you've done that has it really *fixed* anything? You just lose your history and bookmarks most of the time...

I don't think so - not until I exhaust all the free resources.

Like um...changing my browser.

Yep, Google Chrome and Firefox get 'er done. (Twelve percent of you get to my blog on Chrome,and 18% using Firefox.)

I'm back in the saddle.

There's almost always a work-around.

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Google+ is biting the hands that feed it...

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:35:28 GMT

Amazing...

Google hyped its new Google+ to techies.

And then turned around and not only deleted their Google+ accounts, but purged them.

And a whole lot else. Some folks are reporting that they have lost their gmail, and all other Google services, including Google apps, with the purge.

I assume that would also mean Google cloud services...

Just another reason for me to stay out of the cloud.

Whatcha bet the techies will make war on this one?

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Don't think I'll be going "in the cloud..."

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:21:26 GMT

Many, many geneabloggers have written lots of posts on how important it is to back up your data.

And many of us use a variety of different ways to do that, some of us with all the zealousness it deserves.

And then, we sit back and still second-guess ourselves, wondering if we have covered all the bases.

So when the cloud services became available, I was intrigued.

No worries about fire, flood, tornado or other natural disaster at the cottage that may wreak havoc on my hardware back-ups.

The intrigue has lasted for nearly a year. The thing that kept me from seriously checking into cloud services was concern about intellectual property rights, as well as the possibility of the cloud service being hacked, coming under a DDoS attack or suddenly disappearing altogether.

Intellectual property rights are a serious issue for me.

If you have read the static entry at the top of this blog, you know I am in this to share. I tell people that right in the entry - particularly about the sharing of photos posted here.

But I also make it clear in that entry that the written content of this blog is copyrighted. I can't copyright factual information about any of the people in my family tree, but I can darned sure copyright my compilation and presentation of that data.

And defend my copyright.

Discussed my reservations today with one of my co-workers, who started doing a little nosing around on the net and found The Ed Bott Report, 7 Cloud Services Compared.

It was one of the best presentations yet on why, even if you hate all that legal mumbo-jumbo, you gotta read the terms of service for any cloud service provider you consider using.

I won't be granting anyone else a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display my content.

Not even in an area the provider considers public. It's *still* my content.

Am off to do some comparison shopping on 2 to 3 terabyte external hard drives...

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