How to Start & Stop a Fire

Saturday was beautiful weather, so my neighbour (you’ve met before) and I decided we needed a fire, which he started.

Efficiently.

As IF this isn’t album cover art.

That’s the starting part, now comes the stopping part.

He was so calm, there was no flinching.

Then we got back in the car and went home, because this never happened in our front yards.

 

 

Your Data is Stored in Here

This is a data centre.

If you store stuff in the cloud,
this is what those photos & files
look like in real life

1 – housed in a well-ventilated building
2 – a backup power supply, to ensure continuity
3 – through the doors is your stuff

This would be considered a small-ish data centre.

A big one, probably like Facebook’s, would use the same amount of electricity as a small town.

There’s environmental controls like air conditioning (these places get very hot), and fire suppression systems.

Even if you use the cloud to back up your stuff, it’s a good idea to make your own physical back up, and to make two.