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Big Meadow, Skyline Drive

Friday
Entry One

Flew out of work, the fleet flight of Friday before a holiday weekend. Everyone cracks a smile upon stepping out of the concrete and glass coffin of the corporate work week. The motorcycle is quickly gassed and loaded, I leave Washington DC at three-thirty, vowing not to check the time for the rest of the adventure. Adventure, the American adventure of the open road is what I seek. The road, my cameras, and escape.

Right turn off of 15th St. NW and I’m motoring past the Washington Monument and the White House. Harleys and clones are already lining the Mall for the annual Memorial remembrance that is Rolling Thunder. I’m soon over the bridge and on I-66 west. I plan on avoiding major highways when at all possible. Preferring scenic byways to drab highways. 66 is a necessary evil to flee the DC metro area as quickly as possible. At the start, 66 is a good quick run, for awhile anyway. Loads of Rolling Thunder riders are heading in 66 eastbound.

I keep the ubiquitous two fingers down to the side salute to fellow bikers out for extended stretches of time. In my experience, HD guys return the acknowledgement about 30-40% of the time. No big deal, some animosity exist though between different bike cultures. Motor-ism two-wheel stereotypes. However with the Rolling Thunder guys there is a noticeable increase in response, perhaps due to no longer just one biker acknowledging another, but a patriotic sharing of support and remembrance for those left behind, POW-MIA.

Traffic worsens further out 66 and I come up on a full HD dresser. Screaming Eagle back patch worked in with POW-MIA covers his vest and is topped by a “Run for the Wall” patch. I keep back a pace and we adopt the natural offset positioning of multiple riders.

After some 66 backup, stop-and-go, we strike up a staccato conversation in the pauses of the traffic flow. Where you been, where you going, see the rain coming? I tell him I’m headed out to the mountains, Skyline Drive and West Virginia. He says he’s just in from there recently, was in DC for Rolling Thunder for the day and will be coming back in on Sunday again. His license plate is obscured by luggage, so I’m unsure of his port of origin.

Later on we part ways and my thoughts turn. Of my parents friends only my step-dad was drafted for Vietnam. Luckily, for us, he only went as far as Ft. Hood, TX, and came back with some good stories about army life and venturing into Mexico (at least the ones he’s shared with me). I think about all the life he’s lived since then, all his experiences and joys. Thinking about what all those who didn’t return gave up, lost, when they didn’t come home. The loss felt by those who loved them, families that have a name on the Wall.

Rain is sprinkling before Manassas. Enough to cool you off but not enough to get you worried yet, at least for a bit. Whooooo. Then come the big drops. I head off the ramp to gear up with the rain paraphernalia under the gas station pavilion. Finally get it all on and get strapped back up and out pops the sun and the rain stops. Too funny. Now I have wet clothes on under the raingear. Rain gear now keeping the wind out that would dry me. I motor on as more rain is promised on the horizon.

This brings up a point about rain. People always ask, “What do you do when it rains and your on the motorcycle”. I reply simply, “I get wet”. Duh. Rain riding has never bothered me. On the straight highways it’s no big deal. Just give more cushion to the cars in front of you. Drive like grandma on the exit ramps.

My turning point is finally reached. Off of 66 west and onto 647, Crest Hill Rd. at The Plains, VA. Crest Hill Road is my first slice of motorcycle heaven to be had this weekend. I’m delighted to find that the squiggly line I traced out on the map when planning this trip has translated so well in reality. The road is still wet from the passing rain clouds, and I give a small rabbit and then a chipmunk a near death experience. My first of many animal crossings this weekend. The road is fantastic. A mixture of hilltop road and tree lined canopies that create forest tunnels. Speed limit is 45mph, 55-60 feels comfortable on most parts. Keeping an eye out for a hilltop barn to photograph that I’ve seen in my minds eye, lit by the sun breaking through the clouds and backed by the mountain vista. No luck on any of the barns actual placement to fit the mental picture I have framed.

Crest Hill Road and Fodderstack Rd is a long stretch. I take shots of a church and other buildings along Zachary Taylor Highway. Fodderstack gives more of the same as Crest Hill, just a narrower road. The asphalt is of my favorite variety, freshly laid. Washington, VA is a tiny town of historic bed and breakfasts. Local wineries appear to be an attraction here too. Right after Washington the rain returns while I’m in route to Sperryville. Then it really starts to come down, a full on summer thunderstorm. Visibility is down. Road and parking lots soon resemble rivers. Rain drops of the monster variety explode on the pavement, and you know it hurts when they hit you.

I quick soaking circuit of Sperryville confirms there are no local hotels. I duck into a barn shaped restaurant to wait it out. My drenched gear takes on bar stool and I occupy another. There’s a few flying pigs about. The bartender get me a hefeweizen, and recommends the angus burger. Locally raised and grass fed, we exchange jokes about my passing the burgers relatives on the way in.

Don’t freak about the beer. I have a one only rule when riding. It was followed by a meal (best burger of the weekend!), several coffees, and this bar top journal entry.

Somewhere along Crest Hill road I decided to keep the cell off for the weekend. In addition no tv, newspapers, internet, or e-mail sound like a good idea. Of course I now am studiously avoid eye contact with the two beautiful plasma’s above the bar.

Entry Two

Hazel River Inn, Culpepper, VA, has the coolest street side seating in town.

The downpour let up at the Shady Farms bar in Sperryville and due to the deficiency in local lodging I quiz the bartender for options. Over the other side of the mountain, the opposite side of Skyline Dr via 211 is Luray with lots of motels, but I want to save the mountain for the morning. The waitress suggest Culpepper, there being a Holiday Inn etc.

Stepping outside the sun has broke through the clouds again. Enough for some shots of Shady Farms Restaurant and a bridge. Heading down 522, the Sperryville Pike, I keep an eye out for photo ops to catch the next morning as I’ll be rerouting back through. Following the mantra of Dale Borgeson about tour riding in the US, I aim to avoid large chain establishments, whether they are restaurants or hotels, and explore the mom-and-pop local variety businesses. I have a dive-ish roadside motel in mind, Culpepper comes through with the Sleepy Hollow Hotel.

Before check in I ride through downtown historic Culpepper. It’s a cool place. The Shady Farm bartender had recommended the Culpepper Thai restaurant. I see it but don’t visit, still full from the meal earlier. Cameron Street Coffee looks like a great place, located in an old warehouse. Unfortunately their closed for the night.

Shower and changed, room 102 at the Sleepy Hollow Hotel. I hop back on the bike, refreshed and dry and ride through the warm night air back downtown. The coffee at the Hazel River Inn comes with a sweet fudge confection on the side. The peach and blackberry cobbler with vanilla sauce is divine.

The reconfigured plan for this getaway is to shed. Shed worries about the job, career, housing, and relationships. My motorcycle is therapeutic. It’s 600cc’s of Zoloft on two wheels. The road lifts my spirits. This wasn’t supposed to be a solo run, and there are stretches of road where I feel the emptiness behind me.

The cobbler is finished and I can hear the sound of a band doing their sound check. The banging of the drum requires investigation.

Entry Three

I found Brown Bag Special in the cellar pub of the same restaurant I was in. On my way to the door the noise of the sound check floated up the stairs and directed my feet downward. Brown Bag Special opened the set, appropriately enough, with “I drink alone”. The ol’ man, Big Money, would have loved it. Drink alone started off a Big Money Blues trifecta to include “The Breeze” and “Mustang Sally”. Then they made the mistake a lot of bands make that have a great lead guitar player. They let him sing. The lead guitarist karaoke sucked his way through a Tom Petty hit. He was so off key in his singing it made you appreciate the guitar solo’s all the more for the relief they provided. Thankfully the regular singer soon resumed his duties and the night went on. More good stuff from the band.

Freebird
Folsom Prison Blues
Cheap Sun Glasses

“can’t you see, can’t you see, what that woman, what she’s done to me”

Off to bed now at the Sleepy Hollow Hotel with the ghost and shades of dead hookers and overdoses past.

150 miles today.

Saturday

Entry Four

Morning breaks on the Sleepy Hollow Hotel, a hot shower and I’m back on the bike. A quick stop downtown to shoot the Hazel Inn, then it’s back on the Sperryville Pike. More stops to capture some sights seen yesterday. Mr. & Mrs. Pump. The open mouth caricatures are an accurate representation of the current gas cost and the pumps eating your wallet.

I keep telling my daughter that her first car, college car, will be a hybrid. She thinks they are ugly. The bike isn’t so bad, averaging around 40mpg. At about 180 miles on the tripometer I start to look for a refill, although I’ve pushed it to 211 miles before.

A quick left in Sperryville on 211 and up into the mountain, Blue Ridge Mountains and Skyline Drive. Heading up the mountain I get the first bite of the twisties I’ve been craving. The fee at the gate to Skyline Drive is well worth the price. Great scenery and fantastic views. The only drawback is the 35mph speed limit that is well enforced by the park rangers.

I shoot some self-portraits at Pollock Knob overlook. They’re funny in that with all the scrambling and hurrying to be the camera timer, then trying to effect a relaxed pose. I’ve also broke out my old friend this trip, the Lubitel 166, a medium format, 120mm film, twin lens camera. I’m like Jay-Z with this camera, I have to get it in one take. There is no digital review after the click for instant gratification. As a fellow photographer it’s “Point, Push, and Pray”. I’ll be interested to see the results. Not that I’ve left digital behind. Carrying both cameras, I’m an analog/digital double threat.

After the self-portraits and some dead tree shots I’m about to pack back on the bike and leave when I meet the preacher and his wife. He offers to shoot me with my camera and I return the favor with theirs. Conversation flows and in a ‘small world’ moment it turns out that he works for same Hazel family that owns the restaurant I was at last night for his Monday thru Friday job. I get a friendly “God bless” and I’m heading south on Skyline Drive. I make several more stops and break out the cameras again at Big Meadow.

There is a gnarly dead tree in the middle of the meadow. It has burn damage at the base, either the result of some wild fire or perhaps a controlled burn done to maintain the field. I spot and shoot a few deer, they probably won’t turn out as they’re to far away for my lens on the D100. I shoot a bunch of shots of the tree with the D100 and then totally switch processes with the Lubitel. The picture setup with the Lubitel takes about a minute-and-a-half. Manual zoom, i.e., walking back and forth to get the framing I want. Light meter reading. Then dealing with the reversed optics of the look-down box camera. It is fun though, to switch it up, change the pace and the dynamics. Just one click though, hope I caught it.

It’s a long but enjoyable ride to the south end of Skyline Drive. Unless you really like slow cruising I would suggest picking which third of Skyline Drive you’d like include in your trip and leave the rest. I drop off the mountain and into Waynesboro. Finding Mad Anthony’s coffee shop for a late breakfast. I overhear that it’s around noon. The Italian Roast coffee is good, in fact, it would prove to be the best coffee of the trip.

One of the pleasures of traveling by motorcycle is that it’s an easy conversation starter. People ask you where your coming from, where you’re heading, ask about your bike, tell you’re about their bike or the one they wish they had. One of the peculiarities of these conversations is that if the person even remotely knows of anyone that has died on a motorcycle, they will be sure to share this fact along with details. These stories usually involve a deer, a car pulling out, or someone taking a corner to fast. The conversation goes something like this:

Stranger“nice bike”
You“thanks”
Stranger“my cousin Bob had a friend that hit a deer and died on his bike”

Short silence.

You“yeah, deer are dangerous, got to be careful”

I’m not exaggerating when I say I’ve held variations on this conversation many times. Luckily this isn’t the conversation I have with the owner of Mad Anthony’s. He’s a former sailboat instructor who now finds the same release and head clearing on his motorcycle that he used to get from his sailboat.

This brings to mind the same wave – don’t way dynamic that occurs between sail boaters and power boaters, very similar to the sportbike & HD crowd.

The proprietor is a coffee guru, we discuss roasting (my Italian roast was just roasted Wednesday this week). We talk about the good and the evil of Starbucks. We’re both in agreement that they over roast their regular coffee, but I think their foo foo drinks are tasty. He has in his shop both the Bodum press and the Bodum vacuum coffee pot that I got my mom for x-mas. A shameless plug here, the Bodum vacuum coffee pot makes the best home coffee ever. It’s also an entertaining crowd pleaser, no joke.

Leaving Waynesboro the plan was 340 northward to 33, then into Harrisonburg, VA (home of the Valley Mall and JMU). 340 proved to be boring so I jumped on 256, Port Republic Road, for a better ride to Harrisonburg. I don’t know if the coffee wore off or if I was just worn out. I pull over at Westover Park, pick out a spot of grass, and take a good nap in the sun.

I had my motorcycle bug handed down to me by my step-dad. My kindergarten year of school we moved right at the end of the school year. Rather than switch schools at this inopportune time my Dad stuck me on the back of his Honda and rode me to school and back again for the last month or two. Even earlier than that I have a great photo of me in 1973-4 sitting on his chopper with him. Me in a diaper and him with his long hippy hair. The wild side of the Reverend indeed.

Refreshed from my nap it’s back on 33 westbound. Heading out of the Shenandoah Valley and Rockingham County is more glorious twisty roads and the George Washington National Forest. GW is a beautiful tree canopy lined road with a river off to one side. Franklin, WV is the destination, a return to the Star Hotel.

I stayed at the Star a few years prior when they first re-opened the historic Star Hotel. The owner, Steve Miller, is a great guy, friendly and conversational. I told him I’d be back again, but it’s been a few more years than I thought. Late lunch at the Star is pesto grilled chicken on ciabatta bread with roasted red peppers. Not the type of fare one might associate with West Virginia, but people have misperceptions about everywhere. Steve promises a prime rib later at dinner tonight to die for.

So that there is no misunderstanding, in as much as the Sleepy Hollow Hotel was a dive, the Star Hotel is a dream.

Dump the gear in the room back on the bike for some roaming around. I head back to explore a river road I passed on the way in, Rock Gap. It’s a gravel affair and I follow it back a little ways. Photo some river shots. Down further there is a large cliff face with some college aged kids de-gearing after a day of climbing. I’ll try to stop back in tomorrow and shoot some climbing action, as well as some fly fishing.

I pick up a bottle of Barefoot Wine, Cabernet Sauvignon, and drop it off with Steve at the Star to keep for later. I’ll enjoy that bottle later tonight from the 3rd floor front porch. South out of town I head, into some very secondary roads. I shoot an old decrepit cabin that would be right up Bobby Sargent’s alley. I put it in the metal folder for a possible future model shoot location, along with the river spots I’ve seen.

There are a couple more stops on this little ride. Once for what appears to be a feral chicken, and then for middle of the road stare down with a young doe. She’s camera shy though and is off before I can get a shot. Sportbike probably isn’t the best conveyance for nature photography. The pavement stops and gravel begins, I motor on. Rick & I once spent a full day just about on gravel roads, crisscrossing the back country around Cumberland, MD. So I’m comfortable with the less than ideal riding surface. A few miles on the road dead ends at a pair of chicken houses (source of the feral chicken’s ancestors perhaps?) and I turn around and survey the valley I’ve just ridden through. I have to stop the bike and soak in the scene. A picturesque farm is nestled in the corner of the valley, up against the hills. I meet some inquisitive cows, along with the farmer and his wife.

It seems that when you are in WV and you pass a sign that says “snow removal ends here” that the already suspect road conditions are going to quickly deteriorate and will soon resemble somewhat more of a logging road. I motor on through some back country, no houses, no farms, just mountains, steep roadside cliffs, and wicked gravel switchback curves. The part that gives you the willies are the downhill corners where the road grade is slanted to the outside of the curve and to the drop below. Yikes!

I creep along where a four wheeler would be much more functional. Although I still hit it a bit in the straights. Pavement arrives again and I’m unsure of my exact location. I follow the chicken farmers directions and soon discover myself back in Brandywine, intersecting the same stretch of 33 I rode on my way into Franklin.

Back at the Star Hotel it’s a shower and fresh clothes before heading down for dinner. Downstairs I find the prime rib to be as good as promised.

Entry Five

How beautifully staged is this. Barefoot on the 3rd floor patio, wine to ease the back and the ache in the knee.

205 miles today, the last 30 after check in, just to explore.

Sunday

Entry Six

Out early in the morning. I find no climbers at Rock Gap, unsure of the hours they keep. Out of Franklin on 33 west, looking for another squiggly line I had seen on a map. Bland Hill Road name is a misnomer. A single lane country road winding through German Valley. I got a few shots of German Valley from the 33 overlook before turning on Bland Hill. Now I find myself in the same location I had shot from above.

The road cuts through some open pasture land and I meet some cows standing in the road after rounding one bend. They’re pleasant enough, if in no particular hurry to cross, and don’t mind posing for a shot or two before meandering on. People talk about the danger of hitting a deer, a cow would really ruin your day! Off of Bland Hill and on down into the valley. I come up on the rock formation I had seen from the overlook previously. It’s not Seneca Rocks, but a formation of the same ilk. I get some more photos, then onto German Valley Road. I’m still staying at the Star, there is no real destination today. It’s relaxing to stop as much as I like.

German Valley Road puts me back on 33 west and not long after I’m ordering breakfast at the Valley View Restaurant. Dale Borgeson warns of places that advertise home cooking, but that’s about all you see in these parts. There are a fair number of cars here and that’s usually a good since the food will be alright. Hell, even the Army could make a good breakfast. It all works out and it’s a hell of a deal, for toast, two eggs, hash browns, bacon, and coffee.

From 33 I hit 28 and turn off on Smoke Hole Road, just because it’s there and looks interesting. Boy, what a find it is. Combining the curvy one lane country road with nice wide smooth pavement (gravel free in the corners). It’s great. Smoke Hole Road turns out to run from 28 across the Seneca Rocks National Forest to 220 on the other side. Going west-to-east it starts out all curves and hills, then ends by winding along the south branch of the Potomac. There are lots of fly fishermen here enjoying the catch-and-release section of the river.

Up 220 to Petersburg, I run into some Ducati guys at the gas station. We swap riding info and I’m soon on 42 north towards Mayville. Hanging a left when I see a sign for Dolly Sods. I’m back on secondary roads and I soon pass another prophetic ‘no snow removal’ signs. It’s gravel the rest of the way up the mountain til it breaks out on top at Dolly Sod.

I’m real happy with today’s roads, as both Smoke Hole Road and Dolly Sods were unplanned ‘discovered adventures’. I do some rock scrabbling at Dolly Sod and enjoy the cliff top views. A fellow tourist snaps a shot for me an I hike out well past the distance that the casual tourist and families go. Shot some more shots of the rock formations with both the digital and film camera. Do some more self-portraits. I then sit down to relax in the sun with the cliff side breeze steadily blowing and update this journal.

Entry Seven

Well, fellow traveler, if you’ve made it this far I am duly impressed. I thank you for your perseverance. The rest of the day was spent riding without incident. Just more fantastic roads. You don’t have to be an explore on par with Lewis & Clark to find great rides in West Virginia. Just be curious in nature and unafraid to leave the beaten path. Drop off the numbered roads and take the route less traveled. Soon you’ll be in your own undiscovered country. Blah blah blah.

Out of Dolly Sod and I find myself on 32. Rough calculations put the dirt road travel around 25 miles for the day. While we are on stats, here’s today’s animal road count:

1 rooster
1 dead fox
2 cows
8 chipmunks
7 alive
1 dead
3 dead possums
1 squirrel
1 dead blob (undistinguishable)
No fearsome deer
1 dog

I guided myself today by a rather non-descript map put out by mountainhighlands.com

Leaving Dolly Sod on 32 puts me in Dry Fork and back on familiar 33 west to Elkins. I cruise around Elkins on the off chance I’ll run into a guy I know named Dallas. Now all you need to know about Dallas is the following:

I don’t know his last name
I once gave him a hair cut with dog grooming clippers
I know he works at a bike shop making choppers

You figure the odds of me finding him, near zero.

If your curious it wasn’t the first time I cut hair, albeit the first time using dog shears. In Korea I cut in the latrine for a cut or for a 6 pack. Everything was barter in the Army. We had a cook that would make you a great custom birthday cake for a case of beer or feed you food out of the back of the chow hall at 3am when you staggered in drunk from the ville for the promise of a future round to be bought. Korea stories could fill another journal.

Anyway, out of Elkins and south to Beverly. Scott, if your reading this you were on my mind as I went through town, never forgive, never forget.

So far I’ve only tried to write about the positive food experiences of the trip without throwing anyplace under the bus. C&J in Beverly however, served only barely functional burgers and the vanilla shake was of the worst chemical prefab variety. There are some things that I am stuck on, good vanilla ice cream is one. The others that I’m picky about are beer, whiskey, steak, cheese-steak, and coffee. It’s just so disappointing when something you usually enjoy turns out to be sub par.

After C&J it’s 250 east to 28, which heads back towards Seneca Rocks and Franklin. It’s a good haul through the Monongahela National Forest. A road of the scenic variety, with good twisties up the mountain and through the scenery. These type road have become quite a common occurrence here in WV. Back in Seneca Rocks and 33 east into Franklin. I never shoot Seneca Rocks, the light is never right, number one can tell you how I get about my light.

The Star’s restaurant is closed on Sunday, dagger, so I shower and head into Franklin by foot. About Franklin, WV. It’s a nice little town, quiet and sleepy. No bars other than the VFW that I could see. Everybody I’ve met and spoken too has be pleasant, friendly and conversational, both here in Franklin and elsewhere in WV. I’m sure there are a variety of characters much as anywhere, this is just my observation from the tourist level.

Following last night precedent I grab another vino from the Shell station. The Star being closed is a dilemma; I’m in need of a cork screw (having borrowed the restaurants the night before). I wander back down to the hotel, wine in hand, and past the hotel just a bit til I meet an old man sitting out front. I explain my situation, wine without access, and he says he’ll sell me a corkscrew. He goes in the house, shortly to return with the necessary implement in hand. I figure I have it for -4 or maybe rent it for a one time use for . That proves unnecessary however, he says just to take it, and keep it for any future need.

The sole booking for the hotel tonight, I’m like a wraith as I glide through the halls. On the front porch with my bottle of vino in hand. I have some cheap cigars I also picked up and there’s nothing to do but kick back and watch the sunset.

It’s been a great trip. Somewhat lonesome at times. The lack of someone to talk to surely let to the length of this journal. It was a trip to getaway, to reflect. There was no great revelation or anything, just time to get to know yourself. The road gives you time to think. I know who I am and I like being me. I know what’s missing.

I’m resolved to take more bike trips in the future. It’s definitely my preferred way to travel and vacation. Motorcycling is the way to go.

Tomorrow I have my route generally planned out, more scenic byways for a winding route home.

Miles today, 240.

Monday

Entry Seven

Just a short postscript. 20 miles east of Washington DC, on 66, the chain popped off the bike. It’s never easy.

How to Backup Emails in Microsoft Outlook 2010

Article by Jyoti Panth

The article intends to explain the procedure of backing up email messages in Outlook 2010. The methods explained in the article are reliable and correct to the date. However, it is still recommended that you follow the instructions to successfully backup your email data without encountering common Microsoft Outlook problems.

Do you want to backup your important Outlook email messages in the fear of losing them some day or in the need of reformatting your computer or hard drive? Or are you one of those users who want to backup their important email data without desiring to contact the paid Microsoft tech support services? If yes, then the article is dedicated to you. We have brought you a step by step guide that will not only help you create a backup of your email data but also educate you through additional tips.

Instructions:

Open Outlook, click on the File menu, click on Open, and then click on Import. When the Import and Export Wizard window opens up, click to highlight Export to a file from the listed options and click on the Next button. Under Create a file of type heading, click Outlook Data File (.pst) and then click on the Next button. Click to choose the folder whose data you want to export for backup in the next window and also put a checkmark in the box next to Include Subfolders. Since you are backing up the email data, you can choose to click the Inbox folder or Sent Items, Drafts etc. as well (if you want). If you want to back up the entire Outlook data, then click to select your email account (your email address like johnsmith@hotmail.com) and also check the Include Subfolders box. When done, click on the Next button. In the next window under the Save exported file as, you will see the location of the exported file. If you want you can click on the Browse button to save the exported file to a desired location. Choose any of the three options viz. Replace duplicates with items exported, Allow duplicates to be created, and Do not export duplicate items and then click on the Finish button to close the window complete the backup procedure. You can let the default option Replace duplicates with items exported be selected. Your emails have been successfully backed up now. If you want, you can password protect your backup file in order to protect it from unauthorized access.

Additional Tidbits:

If you are using Outlook with Microsoft Exchange or other server, then your emails must have a periodic backup on server set by your network administrator. If you use Outlook without any exchange server, then all your data is stored in .pst files. You can also backup your email data by copying the desired .pst file to another media like disk.

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Use online planning tools to keep digital lists and contacts and apps that make them available to your mobile devices. (Be sure to make backups.) Create a wedding Web site and use it to communicate with your guests about everything from forthcoming …

Contacts Backup question by SirTomofMSU: How can I backup my phone contacts myself?
I have a Motorola RAZR2 on the Alltel network(Verizon now I guess)

Is there any way I can back up all my contacts on my own computer?

Contacts Backup best answer:

Answer by Murzy
if you are on verizon, they have a free automatic back-up on their website.

http://www.verizonwireless.com

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Space Shuttle Enterprise in the James McDonnell Space Hangar

See more photos of this, and the Wikipedia article.

Details, quoting from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Space Shuttle Enterprise:

Manufacturer:
Rockwell International Corporation

Country of Origin:
United States of America

Dimensions:
Overall: 57 ft. tall x 122 ft. long x 78 ft. wing span, 150,000 lb.
(1737.36 x 3718.57 x 2377.44cm, 68039.6kg)

Materials:
Aluminum airframe and body with some fiberglass features; payload bay doors are graphite epoxy composite; thermal tiles are simulated (polyurethane foam) except for test samples of actual tiles and thermal blankets.

The first Space Shuttle orbiter, "Enterprise," is a full-scale test vehicle used for flights in the atmosphere and tests on the ground; it is not equipped for spaceflight. Although the airframe and flight control elements are like those of the Shuttles flown in space, this vehicle has no propulsion system and only simulated thermal tiles because these features were not needed for atmospheric and ground tests. "Enterprise" was rolled out at Rockwell International’s assembly facility in Palmdale, California, in 1976. In 1977, it entered service for a nine-month-long approach-and-landing test flight program. Thereafter it was used for vibration tests and fit checks at NASA centers, and it also appeared in the 1983 Paris Air Show and the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans. In 1985, NASA transferred "Enterprise" to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum.

Transferred from National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Quoting from Wikipedia | Space Shuttle Enterprise:

The Space Shuttle Enterprise (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) was the first Space Shuttle orbiter. It was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform test flights in the atmosphere. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of spaceflight.

Originally, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight, which would have made it the second space shuttle to fly after Columbia. However, during the construction of Columbia, details of the final design changed, particularly with regard to the weight of the fuselage and wings. Refitting Enterprise for spaceflight would have involved dismantling the orbiter and returning the sections to subcontractors across the country. As this was an expensive proposition, it was determined to be less costly to build Challenger around a body frame (STA-099) that had been created as a test article. Similarly, Enterprise was considered for refit to replace Challenger after the latter was destroyed, but Endeavour was built from structural spares instead.

Service

Construction began on the first orbiter on June 4, 1974. Designated OV-101, it was originally planned to be named Constitution and unveiled on Constitution Day, September 17, 1976. A write-in campaign by Trekkies to President Gerald Ford asked that the orbiter be named after the Starship Enterprise, featured on the television show Star Trek. Although Ford did not mention the campaign, the president—who during World War II had served on the aircraft carrier USS Monterey (CVL-26) that served with USS Enterprise (CV-6)—said that he was "partial to the name" and overrode NASA officials.

The design of OV-101 was not the same as that planned for OV-102, the first flight model; the tail was constructed differently, and it did not have the interfaces to mount OMS pods. A large number of subsystems—ranging from main engines to radar equipment—were not installed on this vehicle, but the capacity to add them in the future was retained. Instead of a thermal protection system, its surface was primarily fiberglass.

In mid-1976, the orbiter was used for ground vibration tests, allowing engineers to compare data from an actual flight vehicle with theoretical models.

On September 17, 1976, Enterprise was rolled out of Rockwell’s plant at Palmdale, California. In recognition of its fictional namesake, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and most of the principal cast of the original series of Star Trek were on hand at the dedication ceremony.

Approach and landing tests (ALT)

Main article: Approach and Landing Tests

On January 31, 1977, it was taken by road to Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, to begin operational testing.

While at NASA Dryden, Enterprise was used by NASA for a variety of ground and flight tests intended to validate aspects of the shuttle program. The initial nine-month testing period was referred to by the acronym ALT, for "Approach and Landing Test". These tests included a maiden "flight" on February 18, 1977 atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) to measure structural loads and ground handling and braking characteristics of the mated system. Ground tests of all orbiter subsystems were carried out to verify functionality prior to atmospheric flight.

The mated Enterprise/SCA combination was then subjected to five test flights with Enterprise unmanned and unactivated. The purpose of these test flights was to measure the flight characteristics of the mated combination. These tests were followed with three test flights with Enterprise manned to test the shuttle flight control systems.

Enterprise underwent five free flights where the craft separated from the SCA and was landed under astronaut control. These tests verified the flight characteristics of the orbiter design and were carried out under several aerodynamic and weight configurations. On the fifth and final glider flight, pilot-induced oscillation problems were revealed, which had to be addressed before the first orbital launch occurred.

On August 12, 1977, the space shuttle Enterprise flew on its own for the first time.

Preparation for STS-1

Following the ALT program, Enterprise was ferried among several NASA facilities to configure the craft for vibration testing. In June 1979, it was mated with an external tank and solid rocket boosters (known as a boilerplate configuration) and tested in a launch configuration at Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A.

Retirement

With the completion of critical testing, Enterprise was partially disassembled to allow certain components to be reused in other shuttles, then underwent an international tour visiting France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the U.S. states of California, Alabama, and Louisiana (during the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition). It was also used to fit-check the never-used shuttle launch pad at Vandenberg AFB, California. Finally, on November 18, 1985, Enterprise was ferried to Washington, D.C., where it became property of the Smithsonian Institution.

Post-Challenger

After the Challenger disaster, NASA considered using Enterprise as a replacement. However refitting the shuttle with all of the necessary equipment needed for it to be used in space was considered, but instead it was decided to use spares constructed at the same time as Discovery and Atlantis to build Endeavour.

Post-Columbia

In 2003, after the breakup of Columbia during re-entry, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board conducted tests at Southwest Research Institute, which used an air gun to shoot foam blocks of similar size, mass and speed to that which struck Columbia at a test structure which mechanically replicated the orbiter wing leading edge. They removed a fiberglass panel from Enterprise’s wing to perform analysis of the material and attached it to the test structure, then shot a foam block at it. While the panel was not broken as a result of the test, the impact was enough to permanently deform a seal. As the reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) panel on Columbia was 2.5 times weaker, this suggested that the RCC leading edge would have been shattered. Additional tests on the fiberglass were canceled in order not to risk damaging the test apparatus, and a panel from Discovery was tested to determine the effects of the foam on a similarly-aged RCC leading edge. On July 7, 2003, a foam impact test created a hole 41 cm by 42.5 cm (16.1 inches by 16.7 inches) in the protective RCC panel. The tests clearly demonstrated that a foam impact of the type Columbia sustained could seriously breach the protective RCC panels on the wing leading edge.

The board determined that the probable cause of the accident was that the foam impact caused a breach of a reinforced carbon-carbon panel along the leading edge of Columbia’s left wing, allowing hot gases generated during re-entry to enter the wing and cause structural collapse. This caused Columbia to spin out of control, breaking up with the loss of the entire crew.

Museum exhibit

Enterprise was stored at the Smithsonian’s hangar at Washington Dulles International Airport before it was restored and moved to the newly built Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum‘s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport, where it has been the centerpiece of the space collection. On April 12, 2011, NASA announced that Space Shuttle Discovery, the most traveled orbiter in the fleet, will be added to the collection once the Shuttle fleet is retired. When that happens, Enterprise will be moved to the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City, to a newly constructed hangar adjacent to the museum. In preparation for the anticipated relocation, engineers evaluated the vehicle in early 2010 and determined that it was safe to fly on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft once again.

Crawlspace cleanup – Sewage backup is one of the worst home disaster

Article by 911restorationinc

Crawlspace cleanup : A sewer backup is the major problem which damages the home. It creates a stressful and emotional situation for the homeowner/ renter. But when approaching a proper restoration company for a sewer backup it can be greatly minimize the property damage and diminish the threat of illness.

The major cause of a backup in your lateral is from the items that block the line such as kid’s toys, towels, diapers, paper products other than toilet paper, keys and even false teeth. When the persons in the home is careful by disposing these certain products then the systems would not be affected and will not cause fewer backups.

When a homeowner experiencing a sewer backup then immediately stop using the water. Even after not using any water and the sewer backup levels rises then the blockage is in the city sewer line. So there is a need to contact a sewer cleaning service for clearing the in the service line.

If a sewage backup occurs inside your home then immediately seal off the area from children and pets. Opening and cleaning the sewer lines are done by the professionals of the cleaning service. They help to determine the cause of the backup and check the condition of the severe blockage.

Fire damage cleanup : A sewer line backup is one of the worst home disasters recovery should be done fast and protect you from the dangerous bacteria and damage to your possessions. Staying away from the contaminated area will be safe until the technicians remove the black or grey water. Use a proper anti-microbial solutions for cleaning.

Sewer backup problems are the most expensive to correct. In the worst cases, the sewer can have enough pressure to completely fill your basement if the water level is higher than your foundation somewhere else on the sewer line. When there is enough pressure in the sewer system, the sewage will rise through the wash machine drain connection, utility sink, and basement bathroom fixtures.

Few steps can be followed to prevent this problem. Avoid putting dairy products, fats, oil, grease or greasy foods down the garbage disposal or drain.Thanks to out high standards to workmanship, dedication, work ethics and commitment, along with affordable prices, we have become the leader in property damage restoration and cleanup.

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Contacts Backup question by : How do i access a backup of my contacts and saved Email messages? My EMail has been compromised.?
My contacts have been sent a letter requesting money for me in UK and Scotland. I no longer have any contacts listed in my account. All my saved EMails have been erased. Help. What can I do to retrieve them?

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New toy, HTC Touch HD

This was today’s backup shot, in the end I plumped for a shot of the dog in sunglasses

I didn’t really want to upgrade my old phone, but when you get offered a phone like this for free, and they reduce your contract price… and give me more minutes, and unlimited internet (within reason) it was hard to say no…. I suppose perks like this are part of the course if you have a £900 annual phone bill.. although if I don’t deviate from the call plan then my bill will halve this year

I suppose I should push Orange as I have been with them for something like 12 years…my current contract is a bit of a change from my 50 minute inclusive contact when I first started…. over the last 12 months I use 2700 minutes on average each month!

..this shot is awful, it’s blurred cause the shutter speed was too slow, as a product shot is skew’d slightly, and the lighting was poor so I had to push the saturation to get any colour… I really need a better shot

Business Continuity and the Importance of Adequate Data Backup Methods

Article by Xamu Black

While the points below may not fit any business perfectly they may be used as a framework for preparation should your organization be faced with a disaster. Collect any company information that could best improve your organizations endurance throughout a crisis and compile it into a document. It’s important to mention that while most, if not all, of your employees should have access to this information, caution should be taken with more sensitive information. Weigh the cost vs. reward of cataloguing any information that may fall into the wrong hands.

Let us begin.

1. Identify the key threats to your business and establish a set of contingencies that best addresses them all. The key to moving forward while separated from key assets is not to have a separate plan for each scenario, but to create a general plan that is a good fit for any business interruption. While common threats like hurricanes, earthquakes and fire are generally first to come to mind, there are other threats that occur less frequently but can be far more damaging because they are less planned for, such as: power interruptions and blackouts, hazardous materials evacuations, terrorist attacks, industrial sabotage, human error and data corruption to name a few.

2. Create a team and implement the plan. While smaller businesses may be perfectly comfortable with one crisis management contact, larger organizations may require departmental or district team leaders to act as a coordinated Emergency Management Team.

3. List each of your company’s locations and the address information for one or more secondary locations to be used as an alternate workplace in the event of a lack of access.

4. Continuing operations in the face of adversity may come at a cost. In the interest of efficiency, list any products or services of those that you normally provide, which may have their production or fulfillment temporarily postponed in the event of a disaster – products or services which you may deem expendable given the right circumstances.

5. Intellectual Capital, or the knowledge of the workings of the company, can be as important as a physical location. You must ascertain who knows what about your operations and how that knowledge can best be passed along to where it is required. Adapting properly to a workforce shortage can make or break a successful crisis response. Ensure staff have been cross-trained as temporary replacements for other roles in the organization. Based on your minimum staffing requirements, list key personnel and which individual or department is capable of temporarily fulfilling the operations of others.

6. What means are required to bring your products or services to market: telephone, delivery services, internet or a representative? Do you have an alternate method of delivery in place for any level threat – and if so, what?

7. What are the minimum equipment requirements necessary to bring your product to market (i.e., trucks, telephone systems, website systems)? Based on the type of business interruption, can new vehicles or systems be secured and if so, who from and in what period of time? If your delivery method relies on a 3rd party is there another means to acquire the same service and have you discussed a failover to their system?

8. What computer data do you rely upon the most and is it protected? All businesses in our data-rich environment should have a secondary means to generate and access data. When backup servers or systems fail there should be an up-to-date local backup copy as well as an out of state remote backup. Instruct any employees that regularly access or generate data to make a list of all key applications that they affect or utilize on a day-to-day basis.

In the event of a disaster that interrupts a company’s use of its data, traditional data backup companies only offer a data dump. The majority of the files will not work without their corresponding software; a number of databases contained within programs will be unavailable; and continuing business as usual will be impossible without workstations.

In many instances, the purchase of an entirely new set of computer hardware and the painstakingreconstruction of the office computer network will be required to restore normal day-to-day business operations.

Absorb.com has the unique capacity to virtualize a client’s entire office including all of their servers and software – their files are not only backed up, but accessible and functional. Day-to-day operations can resume within minutes of a disaster rather than weeks or months. To review this revolutionary data backup system, please visit http://www.absorb.com.

9. Are important physical documents stored in a fireproof crushproof safebox? An up-to-date Document Retention Plan or DRP is critical to business continuity during a crisis. As part of a Document Retention Plan it is crucial to determine which documents, (if not all) should be scanned and added to your companies local and remote data backup sets. Below is a list of documents that may or may not apply to your organization:

EIN#, ER#, IRS Determination Letter, IRS Form 1023, Current and previous Form 990s, Financial Statements, Current and previous audited financial statements, Bylaws, Mission Statement, Board Minutes and upcoming Agendas, Corporate Seal or other Intellectual Property, Blank Checks, Employee Records, Client Records, Vendor Records, Equipment or Location Lease Information, Computer Passwords.

10. The most overlooked and least understood player in our daily manipulation of data is our software. Just as you did in item 8 above, have employees reflect on their daily manipulation of data and make note of all key software applications. Find and store each software installation disk and list both the version that was installed and the current working version. If equipment is replaced and software reinstalled, critical software updates may have to be installed in order to access data properly. Also catalogue any username, password and vendor contact information. If possible inquire with Absorb.com about backing up entire working copies of your software systems.

11. More than likely your company’s online presence and email are managed by a third party. Make sure that the hosting and storage of this online data is located out-of-state to avoid interruption due to geographically localized disasters. Identify whether or not your email is stored at the host or downloaded to local equipment and make arrangements to archive this remotely.

12. Consider strategic alliances with vendors, suppliers and dare we say the competition. Discuss an extension of credit with vendors should funds not be readily available, review alternate means of securing supplies if you or a supplier suffer an interruption in service and lastly if you cannot provide a valuable service to a client, carefully weigh the outcome of them not receiving it at all, verses your providing it through a competitive source.

13. The human factor – Facilities, computer networks and machinery are only as good as the people that operate them and those people have lives and family outside of the relationship with their employer. Bank on having access to key employees during a widespread crisis and you will lose more often than not. What an employer can do is communicate and coordinate with employees to make sure that families are included in disaster preparedness and that employees have the resources necessary to manage both their personal and occupational responsibilities.

List emergency contacts such as:

Insurance Provider Policy Number and other recovery information:

Company Bank Information or Banking contact Name, Authorized Check Signers or individuals authorized to manage transfers of funds:

Primary IT Contact

Employees and next of kin:

Key Clients:

Key Vendors:

The competition:

Additional Notes:

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Contacts Backup question by : How do I make a backup of my contacts that I can maintain on my pc hard drive?
I was recently hacked on my gmail acct and totally lost my emails and contacts. I would like to keep a copy of my contacts in a form which could be imported to a new email account. I would prefer a comma seperated text file which could be maintained in excel.

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Answer by fathermartin121
Open contacts>File>import and export>export as file>Comma seperate Dos (or Excel 2003)

Tag – How Blue Can You Get

Recebi a Tag de Cotton Candy (um beijo da Maga: Muaaacks!) e me diverti muito fazendo. Como formatei meu computador um dia desses, corri atrás de uma parte de meus backups. Não coloquei tudo porque eu ia passar a minha vida toda só juntando as músicas. São muitas. O_O
Traduzi para ficar melhor a compreensão, mas, como não sou fluente em inglês, precisei de alguma ajuda do tradutor do Google, então, pode acontecer alguma discordância.
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1. Coloque seu Itunes,Windows Media Player em shuffle (aleatório).
2. Aperte o botão "próxima música" pra cada pergunta.
3. Você deve escrever o nome da música, não importa o quão ridícula seja.
4. Tag 18 amigos.
5. Todos que você taggear têm que fazer a mesma coisa.
6. Divirta-se.
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1. Se alguém diz "você está bem?", o que você responde?
Mignight Oil – Beds Are Burning (Camas estão queimando) – Vou passar a responder isso. xD

2. Como você se descreveria?
Blitz – A Dois Passos do Paraíso – Wow!

3. O que você gosta em um cara/menina?
ZZ Top – Sharp Dressed Man (Cara bem vestido) – Adogueei!

4. Como você se sente hoje?
Smash Mouth – I’m a Believer (Eu acredito)

5. Qual é o propósito da sua vida?
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird (Pássaro Livre)

6. Qual é seu lema?
Ramones – Rock ’N’ Roll High School (Escola do Rock)

7. O que seus amigos pensam de você?
RPM – Olhar 43 – Fiu, fiu, sua linda!

8. O que seus pais pensam de você?
Blues Brothers – Jailhouse Rock (Rock do Presídio) – oO?

9. O que você está pensando ultimamente?
Buena Vista Social Club & U2 – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Eu ainda não encontrei o que estou procurando) – Bem, é mais ou menos isso aí.

10. Quanto é 2+2?
Dr. John – Season of the witch (Estação das Bruxas) – Mas todas as estações são delas, oras!

11. O que você acha do seu melhor amigo?
Elvis Presley – How do You Think I Feel (Como você acha que eu me sinto) – A arte de responder com outra pergunta. xD

12. Qual é a historia da sua vida?
The Blues Brothers Band – Turn on Your Light (Acenda a sua luz)

13. O que você vai ser quando crescer?
Blitz – Betty Frígida – HUAHAUHAUHAUHAUHAUHAUA

14. O que você pensa quando vê a pessoa que você gosta?
Smash Mouth – Holiday in My Head (Férias na minha cabeça) – Esse tag tá mais sabido que o Akinator

15. Que música você vai dançar no seu casamento?
Boston – More Than a Feeling (Mais que um sentimento) – Tô dizendo que Akinator tá perdendo feio!

16. Que música vai tocar no seu funeral?
Sex Pistols – Anarchy In the U.K. (Anarquia no U.K.) – Eu sabia que era trombadinha, mas isso?

17. Quais são seus hobby/interesses?
Ramones – Baby, I Love You (Querido, eu te amo!)

18. Qual o seu maior medo?
REM – Man on the Moon (O homem da lua) – Medo de São Jorge?

19. Qual o seu maior segredo?
The Blues Brothers – Everybody Needs Somebody (Todo mundo precisa de alguém)

20. O que você quer agora?
Elvis Presley – Rip it Up (Arrebenta) – SIJOGAH!

21. O que você acha dos seus amigos?
The Rolling Stones – Paint it Black (Pintá-lo de Preto) – Alguns estão precisando serem apagados, isso sim!

22. Que título você vai dar pra essa foto?
Louisiana Gator Boys – How Blue Can You Get (Quão triste você pode ficar) – Afinal, tudo pode ser Blue. =)

Taggeio ali no gato preto.
Se alguém já tiver feito (ou não quiser fazer), desconsidere.

IT Support Managed Services Extend Their Reach Into Data Backup And Broadband Connectivity

Article by Ziptech Services Ltd

In the past you would purchase all the parts of your computer system separately – Windows servers, Apple Macs, routers, switches, broadband, tape backup drives, etc. and put them all together like a jigsaw puzzle.

Getting to this point was no mean feat in itself!

After you had done that – provided all the bits fitted together (which often they didn’t) then you would need IT Support to keep your computer network running.

IT Support and IT Infrastructure Budgets

Putting together an IT Infrastructure budget and an IT Support budget was challenging to say the least. If the bits of the puzzle didn’t fit together, or there were project overruns you would pay the price. When something stopped working – as often happens with a computer network – then you would need to pay to get it fixed. The IT Support bill from your IT Support Company would usually be unpredictable and higher than you expected.

To say nothing of the disruption to your business.

IT Support Managed Services

The answer was managed services – pay a single monthly fee to your IT Support Company for them to manage your network, prevent the majority of problems happening and provide unlimited support when there was a problem. Some IT Support Companies would even include items like anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-spam within their IT Support Service at no additional cost.

But what about all the other unpredictable costs?

IT Support Managed Service For Broadband

Some IT Support companies have started to offer an IT Support Managed Service for broadband. It usually includes the broadband service, internet router, firewall and unlimited IT Support for one single fixed monthly fee. You don’t need to worry about hardware purchases or sudden spikes in IT Support costs when you have a problem.

IT Support Managed Service For Data Backup

Today all companies send, receive and hold larger and larger amounts of data – and is still growing exponentially. Of course Disk drives are cheap, but the cost of managing the data once you have the data is very high. Backing up such large volumes of data is a problem. At the same time businesses have become totally dependent on their computer systems and data. Very often it’s a case of no data, no business. This makes data backup and disaster recovery essential.

It’s vital that you can recover from a data disaster – the costs and consequences of recovery are high.

I have personally been contacted by companies who have spent as much as £10k to retrieve data that has not been backed up. Plus they have been unable to do business for almost a week. Data backup is surprisingly complex. For a start it needs to be monitored because something like 7% of all data backups fail each night. And once they fail unbeknown to you they will generally fail day after day. Plus you save greater and greater volumes of data each day forcing you to purchase and implement a new data backup service or tape backup drive at some point.

But now some IT Support Companies are taking care of it for you with a single monthly Managed Services payment for up to 1TB of data – and that’s a lot of data! They will change the hardware as it is required, monitor it for you and fix it on a daily basis.

Managed Services Makes the IT Support jigsaw Simpler And More Predictable

So now a business can use IT Support Companies that provide Managed Services for IT Support, network security, internet connectivity and data backup. This will allow you to drive down your IT costs, make IT Support budgets more predictable and reduce downtime. The next step is to do the same with most of the rest of your network infrastructure. That’s coming too and it’s called Cloud Computing. Cloud computing will allow you to further simplify your IT and drive IT Budgets down. You’ll be hearing a lot about Cloud Computing over the next 12 months.

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Encrypt: Be anti-forensic friendly to protect your Android and your privacy
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She also uses WhisperCore's full disk encryption app to secure the contacts, text messages, and other content stored on her Android phone. If asked for the passwords, she intends to say no. She knows this might cause the agents to seize the devices, …

Contacts Backup question by : Can I backup my contacts from my blackberry using the desktop manager?
and then import them onto my new phone the myTouch?

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Answer by *~SWEET 1 **
Yes u can.

Flickr.Manager

As you may know Flickr has an excellent API and there is a good .NET library that implements that API. It’s name is FlickrNet (http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=FlickrNet). Current software that can manage your Flickr stuff isn’t very comfortable and useful so i decided to make a tool for me to manage Flickr photos, to upload them, to view my contact’s photos, to backup, to make comments, to search etc.
To do the task i created a .NET application using the abovementioned library. The app is free. It doesn’t do many things i have planned but i would like to show it other people for testing purposes. The app has no documentation yet but it’ll have.

System requirements:

Windows XP SP2/Windows Vista
.NET Framework 2.0 (Vista includes it by default)

The application has English and Russian interface (depends upon current session language).

You can download it from here www.egoroff.spb.ru/download/Flickr/setup.exe

Bugs and comments send to flickrmanager (at) gmail.com

PS: And finally i eat my own dog food i.e. i use the tool myself.

When to Contact a Houston Locksmith

Article by Damien Prince

If you’ve just gone into the store for a second and kept the car running, you know that there is no more terrifying sight than to see your keys inside the running locked car. Or you’ll find yourself at a time when your wife is visiting her relatives for a few days, and you’ve come home without your keys and your usual backup system – this happens a lot, doesn’t it? How about your being the only person who can open the restaurant at five in the morning in preparation for the crowds that will come in for breakfast at seven, and the only other key is with the boss who doesn’t like to be interrupted. Won’t you feel happy in all of these situations if you have a professional locksmith who knows you, doesn’t need to run an identity check and is familiar with your house, and might have even spare master keys to help you out. That’s one of the advantages of dealing with a company of professional caliber in the southern Texas area like Katy Locksmith or Houston Locksmith.Peace of mind comes as a benefit when you engage yourself to having a relationship with a professional as opposed to a clerk at the local hardware and sporting goods store. In addition to providing a full supply of bolt locks, slide locks and other variations, they will also be able to counsel and install security devices throughout your house as you need them, without damaging any fine woodwork and causing damage to the frames of the house. When you find yourself in a stressful situation, and the loss of one’s keys is often very stressful since we keep all of our keys together, it helps you avoid panic to know that there is someone you can trust. It’s also an informal arrangement as opposed to having your actions on the record if you, for example, had a really good night on the town and don’t want to get the police to help you in because you’re not in any condition to have them asking you too many questions. The locksmith does not judge, if he or she is a professional. They are just there to provide your security.Should you find yourself in a crisis like having threats made against you, or if you have had a roommate or a partner become violent with you, it will be important that you have a dead bolt and other devices that can protect you from both the potential threat and your stress caused by excess fear. Some companies will be able to advise you if you should install a more dynamic interactive system like digital locks that transmit any transgression to a 24/7 security centre. Your locksmith will be able to counsel you on any extra devices that you might want to have nearby.

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Who Am I? Can I Get Back to You on That?
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My dad, an alumnus, had used his contacts at UW to request a few meetings with professors, so that I could “get a feel” for the academic life there. The first professor on the list was typical — well, a typical, middle-aged, horse-loving animal …

Contacts Backup question by intlextreme: How do I backup my Outlook contacts to store on another computer or USB?
I need to store information on Outlook contacts and calendar on another site for security reasons. But when I “export” the file, the stored version doesn’t recogonize the file type, so I can’t retrieve the information.

Contacts Backup best answer:

Answer by vstar_in_texas
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/175017

Not sure if you meant Outlook or Outlook express..

At anyrate the instructions are about the same.

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Look at this woman’s hair! I thought Sarah had long hair. I know some people keep theirs down past their butt. But that usually looks kind of old and odd. This looks like normal hair, just really long. I liked it. Shot at the 2009 Four Winds Renaissance Faire near Whitehouse Texas.

Backup Creator Review – How To Be Save Not To Be Sorry

Article by James Jackson

Whether you already have your own wodpress blog up and operating, or you’re planning on launching a blog of your own, here’s one of the best tips – and one of the most important aspects to maintaining a blog that I think anyone could give you – Make sure to backup your blog! There are a number of wordpress backup plugin solutions out there, that will create an complete backup of your blog, your posts, your comments and the total database.

You spend hrs, days, months and if you’re an established blogger, you’ve probably spent years on creating compelling, informative and useful content for your visitors. A lot of hard work and sweat has gone in to making your blog the go to vacation spot on your chosen topic. As a fellow blogger myself, I know all about putting all of those man hours of relooking, writing, getting links and people to talk about my blog posts is hard work – and lots of it. And you have to protect it. Your blog is your presence on the web. The location your visitors go when they want updates or are investigationing for information in the look for engines. regularly backing up your blog to avoid any possibility of losing all of your hard work is crucial, and all it normally requires is a wordpress backup plugin.

Let me tell you a story. Last summer I had been away on vacation and was posting daily updates about my trip on my blog. On one of the last days of my vacation, I went to to log in and give a run down of my trip so far, only to find out that I couldn’t. My total blog had been wiped. There was a database mistake, and all my contents, posts, comments – Everything – was all gone. I was shocked, angry and upset. I contacted my host correct away to see if there was something that I could do to try and save all of the hard work I had put into the blog. There wasn’t. I didn’t have any backups of my site at all. Everything I had worked for was lost. They tried to restore the database (it’s what contains all of the posts and comments, etc…) but it was no use. I was out of luck, and all that work had gone down the drain because of some silly databases mistake – not even my fault.

I had to start all over again, from scratch. My only but of luck in this complete situation was that I commonly wrote my posts offline, in a text editor, so I had at least some of my content on my computer, and could re-post it again to my blog. But as you can imagine, all of my pages that were ranking hight in the lookup engines were now gone, endless 404 errors when people tried to visit. The first thing I did once I set the blog up again was to install a wordpress backup plugin. A wordpress backup plugin lets you backup every aspect of your blog, even the database. It will save it to your server or to your computer, and should you ever have a situation where your blog gets corrupted or your web host has an issue, you have a full backup that you can clone and install.

I use the wordpress backup plugin from backup creator, and it is the best investment I have ever made. Backup creator will create an whole backup of your blog immediately. From the posts to the database, to comments made by visitors and all of your themes and plug ins. With backup creator you can also move your blog to a new host just as effortlessly as you would write your next blog post. Their clone-it engineering lets you “clone” your total setup, and then migrate it to a new web host. All of those advanced features aside, this wordpress backup plugin protects your hard work. In the event anything happens, you’ll be prepared with a backup in hand, and your visitors won’t even know something happened.

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Contacts Backup question by : How can I backup my Outlook contacts to my Android phone but not in my Telephone Contacts?
I have thousands of entries in my address book and don’t want them cluttering my telephone contacts where I have about 150. I need an address book like the one I use to have on my Palm.

Contacts Backup best answer:

Answer by CompanionLink
There is actually a very simple way to do this. You’ll need to download the free DejaOffice app on your Android phone to get started. This will give you the Palm-style address book you’re looking for, and more (calendars, tasks, notes, Outlook categories, etc). It will also allow you to keep your Outlook contacts separate from your Android contacts.

In order to sync your Outlook data over to the phone, you’ll need to download CompanionLink for Outlook on your PC. This will allow you to sync via multiple methods – just be sure not to pick sync through Google or you will end up with your Outlook contacts being stored together with your Android contacts. CompanionLink for Outlook is $ 39.95, and we offer a 2-week free trial so you can give it a “test drive” first. The links for both DejaOffice and CompanionLink for Outlook are included below. Let me know if you have any additional questions!

David Z
CompanionLink Software

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Lightning struck very close to my home, twice within a span of about one minute, and fried one of my circuit breakers in the wall, a DSL modem, my phone, my battery-backup power supply, and worst of all, my poor little Mac Mini.
The first strike actually sent a shower of sparks out of the side of the circuit breaker panel, and tripped my power supply over into backup mode. As I was in the process of turning off my monitors another strike went through the phone line, through the phone-line surge protector in the already tripped power supply, through the phone and the modem, and from the modem, across the ethernet cable, and through the Mac, and apparently back into the power supply, the wrong way, frying it, too, and making it fail completely.

It may have been a sympathetic surge of current in the cabling, and not an actual discharge from the strike actually following a real path of conductors to ground.

I hadn’t got renters’ insurance yet, but I’ve still got the paper work from the power supply, so I’m hoping to make my case there.

How To Protect Your SIM Card Contacts And Other Valuable Information

Article by Abiodun Onipede

Do you know anyone whose mobile phone had been stolen in the past? Or have you yourself lost your mobile phone? The answer would probably be in affirmative. If so, have you been able to retrieve the information stored in the stolen phone? Instances abound of mobile phones getting misplaced by accident or lost due to outright theft by robbers. Experiences show that most people forget their mobile phones in public transport vehicles, some misplace theirs in churches, mosques or large conventions while other were simply asked to turn in their phones when caught in popular spots like bars, nightclubs, and concerts by miscreants.

But a problem presents itself apart from the agony of losing the mobile phone. Have you ever wondered what happens to the contacts and other vital information stored both in the phone and the SIM card? Many a time when a subscriber had to ask for SIM replacement, it is noticed that even after retrieving the line, valuable contacts are missing but thanks to technological innovation, you can now save contacts using over the air technology.

It simply means that even when you lose your mobile phone, a technology now exists that can provide a backup from which you can retrieve all the contacts and information you previously had on your phone. In the past SIM copies used to do the job or simply writing down the contacts in your diary or saving into your PC but recent advancement in technological innovations now make it possible using WAP (Wireless-less Application Protocol), SMS (Short Message Services) or the internet to secure your contacts into a location from which you and only you can access when the need arise.

To be able to subscribe to this service, it is advisable that your phone should be SyncML compliant and should also have a WAP provision. Most Nokia, Samsung, Sonny-Ericsson and Sagem support this application.With this innovation, losing valuable contacts and information permanently will be a thing of the past among the various networks subscribers.

I can not stress enough how important it is to have your phone contacts and valuable information back up because it is better imagine than experience. Personally, i will tell you experience is not the best teacher in this instance back of your phone contact it is. Even if your phone do not have SyncML and WAP provision, i will advice that you go traditional way of writing every of your phone contacts in a well kept booklet.

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Contacts Backup question by Rainbow: How do I backup my contacts in WM6?
I have vista and Im using the windows mobile device center. There is no option to back up my contacts. The company just came out with a new ROM updated, and I dont want to re do all my contacts.

Also does anybody know of some good websites where I can find good free and updated software for the sprint mogul.

Thanks.

Contacts Backup best answer:

Answer by Really Old Guy
Go here,

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/activesync/activesync45.mspx

I hope that helps you.