Folks, today is World Cancer Day. In 2005, 7.6million people died of cancer worldwide. That’s just plain crazy.
Get checked, get off your but and exercise, eat better, take care of yourself and each other every day.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/232998
So my Apple Time Capsule died back in September. It seems that the first run units had an issue with power supplies. So much so that someone setup a registration website where you can register your fallen Time Capsule (http://timecapsuledead.org/). Seems that 18months of operation is the key time frame before it goes kaput.
Anyway my local Apple store very generously offered me a replacement (how about that!). However, when I asked about what their data destruction policy was surrounding returned Time Capsule devices, the reply was that Apple doesn’t have one.
For those of you who don’t know, the Apple Time Capsule is a backup device that wirelessly backs up all of your Apple computers to the 1TB hard drive that is on board the device. So in this case when the power supply died, leaving the hard drive containing the data completely intact. When your device dies, Apple exchanges it with a new device. So you have handed a full unencrypted backup of all of your computer’s data over to Apple and they don’t have a policy that restricts what they can do with that data.
In my case Apple didn’t have the exact model of my Time Capsule in stock. They did the exchange paperwork and ordered my new one. I have to bring my broken TC back later this week for exchange. Since the paperwork is now done, I took it upon myself to do a little surgery. I opened up the device, mounted the drive directly to my Mac and erased the data properly. I’m hoping that the exchange will still go through later this week.
Now I am stuck with a decision of what to do with my new Time Capsule. I’m seriously thinking about just eBaying it because I don’t want to be in a position for this to occur again. It’s not worth the risk of the data for me. I will just continue to back it up on my NAS.
I wonder if Apple will adopt a data destruction policy concerning these type of backup systems? As the current consumer base becomes more and more educated on data security issues, I think the manufacturers will have to deal with the issue of security on returned devices.
The song begins right at 2 minutes into the video.
This guitarist is a local Dallas guy who is absolutely amazing. His brother Ashley is a survivor of pediatric brain cancer that he was diagnosed at age 2. His cancer has returned with a vengeance and they are pursuing a very aggressive strategy with an experimental treatment to save Ashely. The treatment is non FDA approved and isn’t covered by the family’s insurance.
He is trying to sell 2,000 of his box sets to help pay for his brother’s treatments.
Check out the video, go to his website and take a listen to some of the other music and buy the set.
I’m winding down a day’s worth of scans, and test here in sunny Bentonville, AR to some good news. My CT scan, PET scan and blood work all look great. My CEA is down to 2.7, the lowest that it has been since I have been off of chemo.
It was great to catch up with the nurses and doctors at Highlands Oncology as well as chat with Robyn as she was getting juiced up in the chair. Keep it up Robyn — 6 more (there’s no “only” about it).
Being back there, I’m quickly reminded of how fortunate I am to have the results that I was given today. There are a lot of folks who don’t walk away with the same news. God bless all who fight and all who help those who fight.
Nothing like a little dreamy orange barium for breakfast. Mmmm-mmm good!
