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shoeless

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  1. Leftcoast/others, IMO Reggie Ray's audio series Meditating with the Body is a good way to get started: http://www.soundstrue.com/shop/Meditating-with-the-Body/284.pd I think its a good starting point even if you later decide to explore different techniques/traditions. (btw, just noticed there are meetings of his students in Vancouver http://dharmaoceancanada.org/sangha/)
  2. Some specific products discussed/recommended here, including some Philips: http://thesweethome.com/reviews/the-best-led-lightbulb-is-the-cree-warm-white/
  3. Interesting. Could people backing up to cloud backup services that use tapes turn around the seemingly secular decline in tapes? I came across this for tape info: http://www.insic.org/news/A&S%20Roadmap.pdf
  4. More personal experience: hyten, I too have a few terabytes around the house. The thing is that the commodity hard drives we buy are quite unreliable and can't be trusted for data you do not want to lose. For me the data is important so I back up to additional drives and move some of them to the office for safety in case something happens at the house. All in all I have 3 copies of the data. Its quite a hassle to manage and its not as safe as it sounds because a drive can be corrupted without me noticing (since I just periodically back up the new changes and don't re-read and check all the old data on the backup drives) The cloud offers the potential to save me some of the hassle of connecting/disconnecting drives etc... as well as increasing the overall reliability but so far the services I've seen have been too expensive for me. However recently Amazon introduced Glacier http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/ At $120 per TB of *reliable* storage per year (plus bandwidth costs) I'm considering backing up to the cloud. There's a good chance that whether the data is in the cloud or at home WDC and Seagate will be selling the drives but I have read speculations that Glacier could be using tapes rather than disks.
  5. We're not totally there yet but when 3D printers are able to print themselves regulating becomes a bit harder "if you've got a RepRap - you can print lots of useful stuff, and you can print another RepRap for a friend... " http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap
  6. Some interesting comments about the industry in this article. Boart sees more growth in global exploration http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/05/canada-mining-pdac-boart-idUSL2E8E506O20120305
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