Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Finding a Cube, Feeling Like a â’Rubeâ’
- Procter & Gamble is now using its 1-million square foot…
- Inlet gas usage sets record
- Recording your own life suggests immortality but has its problems…

Finding a Cube, Feeling Like a â’Rubeâ’
New York Times – Jan 28, 2007
“The broker kept saying, ‘I’m sure you can do a phone interview; you are going to be fine,’ ” Mr. When they were told they had to meet the board in person after all, they scheduled a date to do so and booked a moving company. Then came “the most frustrating call I’ve ever received,” Mrs. They had to fly out a week earlier to meet the board. They dropped everything to book a one-day trip… With the emergence of so many glitches, they started to fear they would be rejected, “but we had no other choice because that’s where we had put all our eggs,” Mr. If need be, the movers could haul their stuff to a storage facility in. They anxiously searched Craigslist, the Web site, for a backup place and found an unusual listing: a 900-square-foot TriBeCa one-bedroom, with 14-foot ceilings, for $2,800 a month. The landlords, a married couple, replied quickly to their e-mail message.

Procter & Gamble is now using its 1-million square foot…
Free with registration – Lima News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 28, 2007
We worked out of our vehicles for a week or so. Moved dirt around for three or four months. ” For the last three or four weeks, P&G employees have been moving pallets around inside the new distribution center. Work teams have also been checking the bolts that hold together the Borg-like Automated Storage Retrieval System, which they call “The Rack. ” Yunker, whose title is overall delivery leader, said company workers have checked 78,000 bolts… ” For the last three or four weeks, P&G employees have been moving pallets around inside the new distribution center. Work teams have also been checking the bolts that hold together the Borg-like Automated Storage Retrieval System, which they call “The Rack. ” Yunker, whose title is overall delivery leader, said company workers have checked 78,000 bolts.

Inlet gas usage sets record
Petroleum News – Jan 28, 2007
Inlet gas usage sets record – January 28, 2007 – Petroleum News. Enstar Natural Gas, the Southcentral gas distribution company, set a throughput record Jan. 4 million cubic feet, and the company and Cook Inlet natural gas producers had to scramb… html’>Nikiski, which was shorted 35 million cubic feet. It took all the producers working together to meet the peak need, he said. And it took working around bottlenecks, moving gas in ways it doesn’t usually move. “We’ve not seen this since ’99,” he said. Enstar serves more than 125,000 meters and some 340,000 Alaskans with more than 3,000 miles of distribution and transmission lines. It is the state’s largest.

Recording your own life suggests immortality but has its problems…
San Francisco Chronicle – Jan 28, 2007
But can you truly forget anything when a permanent record of nearly everything that happens to you exists — or say goodbye to what never leaves? For more than seven years, the self-appointed guinea pig for such a shift in human experience has been a top-ranking, 72-year-old Microsoft researcher called Gordon Bell, who has been testing the practicality of recording almost every event of his day with widgets that include a miniature camera suspended from his neck. All the written and printed documents associated with his life, including a record of the birth of his mother in 1900, have been scanned and added to the same vast digital trove that has been turning the span of his life preserved in it into a sort of eternal present. A detailed Fast Company magazine account of this experiment in November says that Bell can frequently take a look at who passed him unnoticed on his walk to work in San Francisco four weeks ago, and occasionally deletes — at his partner’s request — bytes she deems too intrusive. Surreal now, that sort of thing could also be quotidian for the rest of us once ever-cheaper digital memory brings us the “wearable computing” experts have been predicting, which will include tiny “life-logging” sensors and recorders worn like, or encrusting, clothes. Giant kinks have to be worked out of Bell’s life-logging software — known as MyLifeBits — before anything like it can be marketed. Its search feature often fails to return him to the day or telephone call he has requested from the log. Since computers do not know what images mean, or stand for, the system will not be able to comb through its memory pictorially until its search tools make a great leap forward… Ideally, the memex would not just retain those facts but — as Bell believes MyLifeBits actually does — spur creativity. Bush envisaged his gizmo automatically forging a variety of logical associations between pieces of information, approximating the “intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain. ” Although he thought it highly unlikely that any machine would ever surpass the brain’s ability to make bold and imaginative associative leaps, “it should be possible to beat the mind decisively in regard to the permanence and clarity of the items resurrected from storage. ” If my life were stored on anything like a memex, I would know whether it was, as I suspect, the science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury who wrote a futurist sketch that captivated me as a girl. A young couple lives in a wretchedly overcrowded totalitarian state that allocates to each family a living space as tight as one of today’s pod hotel rooms. Day after day they suffer the almost unceasing surveillance of others. Then, either he or she accidentally discovers that one of their confining walls is actually flimsy and conceals an enormous room that the authorities do not know exists.