bout airplane tickest a while ago…..great price
Day before try to get 2 seats together  online at check in….

That did not happen, normal not a big deal.
but this time the wife is in a walking boot for her ankle and the kid always flys next to the wife.

Security at the airport was a breeze for everyone including the wife in her ankle boot contraption.
security made sure that the kid did not go wondering off well mom got scanned.
I get to deal with the 10 little gray bins and getting them thru the xray thing
as odd as it sounds it was like they wanted to help….got to love that.

Get to the gate wait for the gate folks to get there.
Now the gate folks had always been very helpful  for me

So I know they could easily fix the seating issue for me…..

WRONG
“the flight is full figure it out yourself when you get on the plane” 
The message from the gate folks

it was like they were more concerned about themselves then helping me an mine.
no even an earl boarding invite….wife in a walking boot for her ankle injure and 7 year old boy….

so we wait and yet more self involved airline folks come and go.

they open the plane for boarding…

final yet another group of airline folks…
about half way thu boarding we get invited to board after the wife hobbles around in the waiting line.

I new face from airline….who had just helped a 13 year old traveling alone… was the yes please go bored voice of reason

we go down the empty gate ramp took like 5 minutes down hill walking slow….
get on the plane and there are people sitting in all of our seats….
kid starts crying… have i mentioned yet that the wife “does not like to fly “motion sickens””

get the tickets from the wife…
kick an old couple out of my seat and the 13 year old seat….
then the 13 year old says I’ll change with you..

So the the wife and the kids get 2 seats together…..finally
the 13 year old stranger gets a window seat beind me…

Oh yeah forgot to mention the flight crew losing it because we had stopped anyone from boarding  the plane.
that kind of happens on the small jets  when you are in row 3 waiting for some folks to move out of your seats….

longer story short..

flight was great 20 minutes early kind of great.

moral of the story you should always call the airplane phone support folks to fix seating issues and wait on hold for an hour to talk to 
SAM “shrewas”  who think that the yankees are a florida baseball team……

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Over on the post “Enterprise Security Today | EC2 Outage Takes Out Multiple Sites, Including Foursquare” contains this text:

“EC2 Outage Takes Out Multiple Sites, Including Foursquare By Barry Levine April 21, 2011 1:54PM

Foursquare and other web sites were affected by problems at Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud data center. Amazon said additional capacity was added to support EC2’s ‘affected availability zone’ in Virginia. The outage is likely to add to the debate about reliability and security when using a vendor data center like Amazon’s EC2.   Related Topics Foursquare Amazon EC2 Outage Data Center Security Latest News EC2 Outage Takes Out Multiple Sites National Lab Needs Cybersecurity Your iPhone Knows Where You Were U.S. CIO Sets Ambitious Cloud Goals Windows 8: What’s in Store for OS?

Amazon’s cloud -based platform suffered outages Thursday. The company said the problems involved latency and other errors, and it brought down the web sites of Foursquare, Quora, HootSuite, Reddit and other companies. The problems hit the part of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) that supports start-ups. In a statement, Amazon said it is ‘now seeing significantly reduced failures and latency,’ and it continues to recover. It added that additional capacity has been brought online to support ‘the affected availability zone.'”

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“ron Mountain exits part of the cloud
Storage Alert By Deni Connor, Network World
April 18, 2011 12:03 AM ET

Going on two years in the cloud storage business, Iron Mountain will shutter its Virtual File Store and Archive Service platform without giving a reason. After weeks of rumors that Iron Mountain would close these services to customers, the company will continue to support some cloud storage services as it seeks to migrate them to another cloud service provider. 

Virtual File Store customers have the option to migrate, get their data back or be shifted to the more expensive Iron Mountain File System Archiving service. For Archive Service Platform customers there is no option and their data will be returned and their contracts terminated or they will be migrated to another provider.

Enterprise Cloud Services: The agenda”

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“Cloud users remain worried by security, lock-in

By Dan Hatch
Apr 15, 2011 9:39 AM
Tags: Cloud | security | lock-in | IDC
Those committed to the cloud most worried by the risks.
Organisations that have switched to cloud computing continue to worry about security, vendor lock-in and management, according to analysts.

But those using the cloud and those who still haven’t moved to the computing model have different concerns, according to an IDC survey of 700 IT decision-makers.”

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“Popular cloud sync app raises security fears
Dropbox makes it easy to sync files among devices, but a crucial weakness points to yet another soft spot in cloud security

By Woody Leonhard | InfoWorld”

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“Legal issues in the Cloud – Part 4
There are no laws unique to the Cloud, but you must consider your exit strategy”

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