Cloud Appreciation

My 3 years old MacBook Pro went suddenly dead this week. Annoying as it is, this event allowed me to experience cloud computing like never before. This notebook has been my main computer for the past 3 years. I used it for everything and carried it around wherever I went. One day this week I was using it with tons of apps open as usual (I am known to never close anything...why do we have 4GB RAM for anyway?).  I closed the lid without powering off (as I always did) , put the notebook in my bag and went out of the office. A few minutes later, before  even getting out of the building, I remembered I had forgotten to send an important email. I then came back to my desk  and opened the lid again, but the screen remained dark. As it turns out it would remain dark forever - the logic board was gone. In On Death and Dying  Elisabeth Kübler-Ross describes a model for how people deal with losses known as the five stages of grief: Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance (if this model sounds familiar you probably watched  All That Jazz  until the end. Respect!) As I went through these stages and let people around me know what happened, the phrase I heard most often was: "Have you lost a lot of data?". The surprising answer is: No. Why is it surprising? It wouldn't be had I been a more disciplined person and got myself a Time Machine or another backup solution. But life ...

Date: April, 23 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/jjviana/archive/2010/04/22/cloud-appreciation

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