{"id":3755,"date":"2022-10-31T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2022-10-18T07:35:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:35:26","slug":"spilled-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/10\/spilled-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Spilled Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I finally did it\u2014I spilled a cup of coffee on my computer (first time ever over 40 years). A few lessons learned.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After 40+ years of using my own personal computer, I spilled a cup of coffee on my current Apple MacBook Air. After a couple of hours, the coffee saturated the computer and it was kaput. This was a Sunday morning. I run backups on Saturday morning. I bought a new MacBook Air on Monday  morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lessons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is a great idea to use cloud storage like DropBox, iCloud, and OneDrive.<\/li><li>GitHub is also a great thing to use.<\/li><li>Google&#8217;s Colab is also a great thing to use.<\/li><li>It is a good idea to have a desktop Mac and shareable Desktops and all that iCloud stuff that I really had not noticed before.<\/li><li>It took four hours to restore from backup using Apple&#8217;s software. That&#8217;s a long time.<\/li><li>A new computer has a CLEAN screen. Wow, what a difference.<\/li><li>The new keyboard feels better than the old one (two years old).<\/li><li>This should be simpler to replace a computer on the spur of the moment (like an accident).<\/li><li>I should be careful. I am growing careless.<\/li><li>Perhaps I should replace my laptop every year. That would cost more $$$, but&#8230;<\/li><li>Perhaps I should just be using a Chromebook.<\/li><li>Are there Mac computers up in the cloud for rent?<\/li><li>Time marches on.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I finally did it\u2014I spilled a cup of coffee on my computer (first time ever over 40 years). A few lessons learned. After 40+ years of using my own personal computer, I spilled a cup of coffee on my current Apple MacBook Air. After a couple of hours, the coffee saturated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,479,454,83,259,312,20,339],"tags":[322,480,455,200,260,313,142,341],"class_list":["post-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-chaos","category-cloud-computing","category-computing","category-failure","category-humility","category-learning","category-mistakes","tag-accountability","tag-chaos","tag-cloud-computing","tag-computing","tag-failure","tag-humility","tag-learning","tag-mistakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3756,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions\/3756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}