a nice article on cloud-computing…something useful to understand

Old hat to some of our group, but as we grow more reliant on computers, something to think about.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/04/cloud.computing.hunt/index.html

I've been spending my evenings trying to straighten out 20 years of backup files—from two people who are pretty careful about backing up. I couldn't transfer into the dos system the things I created on the typewriter (Gate of Ivrel, Hunter of Worlds, Brothers of Earth, not even Downbelow Station and Merchanter's Luck, which were on ...