Next time you turn your copy machine back to the leasing company, you might want to consider cleaning it up a bit. No, I’m not talking about the dust and coffee stains. This video will knock your lights out.
The good news; most copy machine manuals detail the process to delete data on the machines. Copy machine manuals can easily be found on the Internet. Or, pull the drive from the machine and wipe it or replace it with an ebay drive.
I like Google Analytics so much so that I use it to track activity on this site as well as other sites that I use. I almost always set up Google Analytics for clients to use to track their websites. Imagine my surprise when during my monthly routine, I looked at reports that indicated that suddenly I’m getting hundreds of visits from folks looking for lightning stuff.
A quick Google search on lightning strikes turns up the stunning result that Google places me above the fold for searches on lightning strikes. Although there are “About 1,680,000 results”, apparently, I’ve been here awhile. But knowing Google search, there’s no guarantee I’ll be there tomorrow.
First off, I’ll never understand Google’s algorithms for search results. I could have spent thousands of dollars on SEO and never achieved above the fold for such a fantastic search term like lightning strikes. This achievement seems to break all of the SEO rules. My domain name has nothing to do with lightning. Although there are several articles and my thing about lightning posted here, most of the content is about business computing. However, I’m thankful for Google’s placing my website in such good company as intellicast.com and weather.com.
Right about now, I’m feeling very obligated to these hard working Google lightning strikes searchers by providing more lightning stuff. I feel like I’m letting you down. So, my question to you; What would you like to see or learn about lightning strikes?
Please leave me an answer or share your story in the comments. I’ll try not to let you down. Oh, before I forget; thanks Google.
Wishing you an eventful St. Patrick’s Day. Patrick was born in Britain in the latter part of the fourth century. His father was a deacon in the Roman church as well as an estate holder. Patrick had some religious training, but it had not affected his life. At the age of sixteen he was captured by Irish raiders and taken to Ireland as a slave. Separated from home and family, he was forced to tend the sheep and cattle on isolated hillsides.
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But, don’t take my word for it. Read this story about a Brevard County Florida church steeple. Even after two strikes and a fire, these brave people returned to church services on Sunday.
After my house suffered substantial lightning damage three years ago, I learned that lightning frequently strikes the same place twice. In spite of that fact, we’re still here, thank God.
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Sometimes very tiny lightning can make a very large impact. Often I’ve had to explain systems damage due to lightening strikes and other electrical issues. The physics of electricity never fails to amaze me. It only takes a small static electrical spark to court disaster.
Check out this video, then think twice about how you might avoid static electricity the next time you fill up.
So a lot of you have asked me “What’s your deal with lightning?”
Well, my wife and I have a nice shower in the master bath. It’s rather large, white tile, gold fixtures, nothing real fancy, just run of the mill nice, sitting next to a large tub below a frosted arched window.
Like a lot of people that grew up in North Texas, we are concerned and like to keep an eye on the weather, fully aware that Mother Nature can put on quite a nice show.
So, how is our shower and the weather related? Several years ago on a beautiful sunny late afternoon, we were watching an impressive thunderstorm approaching from many miles to the west. Then, out of the blue, we suddenly experienced a blinding flash and violent explosion, one that would forever change our lives.
The lightning ran through a tree, hit the gutter on the northeast corner of the house, ran sixty feet down the gutter and blasted through our frosted arched bathroom window on the north side of the house, arced across the bathroom hitting our gold shower head, traveled throughout our copper plumbing in the concrete foundation and blasted out of the south side of the house, leaving in its wake, water pouring out of the south side of the house and fire burning on the north side of the house.
Within an instant, we went from sitting on the sofa on the west side of the house to standing next to the front door on the east side of the house. We have no memory of moving from one place to another. Our teen aged son rounded the hallway corner headed to the front door at full speed, fleeing flying sparks and what appeared to be plasma floating through his bedroom.
The engineer and lightning specialist assigned to evaluate the extensive damage sustained by our house several weeks after the strike ventured the likelyhood that our house was hit by a form of lightning called “a bolt from the blue” or “positive lightning” a highly damaging and dangerous form of lightning “typically six to ten times more powerful” than normal lightning.
There’s plenty more to the story, but lets just say that almost a year passed before we could move back into our home. That fatefull lightning strike took out all of our personal computing equipment containing the current project proposals and work inquiries I was working on.
All of my years of preaching about data backups and recovery methods came back to me in full force. Fate handed me the ultimate data recovery operation, all of our personal business.
The second bit of good news regarding the entire lightening experience arrived when I completed the recovery operation the very next evening without a single bit of lost data. Even the project that I walked away from, to watch the beautiful approaching thunderstorm, was fully recoverable thanks to CDP, Continual Data Protection.
The first bit of good news arrived moments after the strike when we realized all three of us survived this unbelievable event alive.
That’s my deal with lightning! Are you sure your backup works?