Ok so i was searching around on the net this week and came across a really cool and thought provoking article… for me anyway.
This article is titled Where Does Data Go When You Die?
This article goes on to explain that nowadays we are very caught up in out cyber little worlds, most of us make freinds online, have set up multiple email accounts, we have face book, myspace, twitters, delicious, blogs “that we are forced into” and we sign up for porn sites we desperately hope nobody else will ever find out about, yet very rarely do we ever consider what happens to all this stuff when kick the bucket.
Who is going to tell every last facebook contact, who will log into you World of Warcraft accounts “if you are still addicted when you kack it” that we have left this world behind.
A new company by the name of Legacy-Locker are going to aim to do this. People who sign can place thier vitual assests in a virtual locker that will be passed on to the person of your choosing in the unfortunate case of your bloody demise.
Everything from online bank accounts to social network logins can be included and the company also offers “Legacy Letters” which lets people send a last-chance goodbye to online friends. (Or, I suppose, a last-chance “up yours” to online enemies.) “agian if your still addicted to that wretched game”
David Speiser of Legacy Locker says the company offers “bank level security” for any assets it holds and quotes “a death certificate must be confirmed by “human intervention,” before any virtual material is released.”
The company released statistics that U.S. families with kids under the age of 18 who already have wills in place, which Speiser said adds up to roughly 12.6 million households in total. “WOW”
The only downside to the service is the expense: Legacy Locker costs $29.99 per year or, for those of you who don’t plan on croaking anytime soon, $299.99 for a lifetime membership
so yeah i guess this is great for anyone who still plays World of Warcraft, and Wants to reach out from beyond the grave to tell their warcraft guildmates how much you actually despise them all but don’t trust your flesh-and-blood relatives to do the job properly? Maybe Legacy Locker is for you.
sourced from http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/90044-Where-Does-Data-Go-When-You-Die
But yeah in a brighter more lively light, i enjoyed this weeks lecture on HTML and CSS it really helped clear some of that fog. Having Nathan show us what a page looks like with a style sheet attached to a html document and one withoute answered alot of my questions.
The tutorial was just as good, i learn much better from teacher interaction than i do from reading a text book, personally i would like more contact hours even if it was just to ask dumb questions about HTML and CSS. But after being shown some good reference sites like CSS cheat sheet, i feel that i should be able to code withoute worrying about my site falling to peices.
so yeah all i can think of for now! so till next time all!
- Posted:3 years ago