{"id":548,"date":"2007-12-09T21:15:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T21:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/09\/data-woes\/"},"modified":"2007-12-09T21:15:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T21:15:54","slug":"data-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/data-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the guy who has ants in his hard drive, so he loads it up with insect spray.  Kills bugs dead.  And data too&#8230;&#8230; the woman who&#8217;s USB stick went through the wash.  Whites whiter, brights brighter, data gonner&#8230;&#8230; the guys who decided to test a parachute using their fancy digital camera as a weight.  The parachute didn&#8217;t work.  But the camera <em>did<\/em> bust into tiny pieces&#8230;&#8230;. The British Scientist who got annoyed at the squeeking noise his hard drive made.  So he experimented with oiling the hard drive.  Hypothesis:  Rejected.  Data: Gone&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;taxonomyName=storage&#038;articleId=9051298&#038;taxonomyId=19&#038;intsrc=kc_top\">[source]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the guy who has ants in his hard drive, so he loads it up with insect spray. Kills bugs dead. And data too&#8230;&#8230; the woman who&#8217;s USB stick went through the wash. Whites whiter, brights brighter, data gonner&#8230;&#8230; the guys who decided to test a parachute using their fancy digital camera as a weight. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/data-woes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Data Woes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}