Jacqueline Friedrich Loire wines site...???

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Karen Goetz

Karen Goetz
Does anyone know what happened to Jacqueline's website?! It looks like it has been hacked.
Any knowledge of the siege? What is Jacqueline up to? Her work is some of the most definitive re Loire Valley wines/history/viticulture well before the gentry stormed the gates...
Thanks for any info.
 
I have no knowledge but I have looked up some things:
- Her website went live in 2013 and she has never updated it. It looks the same in the Wayback Machine as it does today.
- The website is actually still there except for the home page. For example.
- The website registration was renewed last year for the duration of a year. That suggests ambiguous feelings about it because usually people re-up their sites for multiple years at a time.
- Most of her other social media are similarly inert, although she has been on both Facebook and Medium within the past year or so.
- An article of hers, about Tavel, was published in a Tavel-oriented magazine in 2017 but I don't know when it was actually written.

Overall, I'd guess that she's gone private.
 
originally posted by BJ:
I liked her Sancerre book. I think she's great.
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BJ, I'm with you.
Superb, tender writing about a region and its food and wine. No B.S.
Friedrich has a sensory capacity that matches a fine intellect and an open mind. Rare.
 
some years ago, not long after her sancerre book came out, i emailed her and asked about when she'd have a book on chinon et. al. and as i recall she said that she had had a hard drive crash and lost the book.

but yes, her sancerre book is top notch.
 
That is so brutal, I can't imagine. I would have loved to read that book.

Her original Loire book is perhaps my all time favorite wine book. It really got me started with Loires. I like her sensibility; very thoughtful, but not taking it all too seriously. Karen, your summary is poetic and perfect. Thank you.

I've always wished she'd chime in here at some point, but I think she would find it all a bit much.
 
I have an impression in clay from a Babylonian seal. That technology has lasted in workable form for thousands of years. Can you say the same for your cloud?
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Can you say the same for your cloud?
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The cloud is probably easier to update into new technologies than the various offline ways of saving data (USB, external drives - both of which I use in addition to the cloud).

But I have wondered what it will be like to access all of my research output/journal articles several decades into the future. I guess all we can do is wait and see!

I have also wondered about how our output will be accessed in thousands of years, but I won't be around to see it, so I can't be too worried!
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
The cloud is probably easier to update into new technologies than the various offline ways of saving data (USB, external drives - both of which I use in addition to the cloud).
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I'd say it a little differently. The cloud is a persistent collection of patterns of bits. Because bits are building-blocks it is easy to arrange them in the patterns preferred by your current programs. Security is one question, of course, but persistence is also a question. Ultimately, your saved patterns are either written to disk/drive somewhere or they are copied/distributed to enough machines that it's statistically unlikely to lose them all.
But I have wondered what it will be like to access all of my research output/journal articles several decades into the future. I guess all we can do is wait and see!
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Well, if the documents exist, then either you will have a program that knows how to show them to you or you'll have to transform them to a program that you have (and hope the essential parts come through).
I have also wondered about how our output will be accessed in thousands of years, but I won't be around to see it, so I can't be too worried!
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Read any good Babylonian beer recipes lately?
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Can you say the same for your cloud?
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The cloud is probably easier to update into new technologies than the various offline ways of saving data (USB, external drives - both of which I use in addition to the cloud).

But I have wondered what it will be like to access all of my research output/journal articles several decades into the future. I guess all we can do is wait and see!

I have also wondered about how our output will be accessed in thousands of years, but I won't be around to see it, so I can't be too worried!
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As someone who has scholarship from 40 years ago that, whether it is in the cloud or not, pre-existed computers, I can tell you that you can still access it, without the cloud. You would have kept your offprints or book copies (remember those things) and libraries, or some libraries somewhere, still do.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
You would have kept your offprints or book copies (remember those things) and libraries, or some libraries somewhere, still do.
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I have my books, but journals no longer send offprints (at least in our field). And even if the journals still exist in paper in distant libraries, that's not very much use when you want to show your grandchildren your stellar article on xyz.

That said, the chances of my grandchildren wanting to read my articles is probably pretty low!
 
My point was that we didn't have to wait for the cloud to have our ancient scholarship available. I find it embarrasing enough to read myself, in any case. I doubt I'd want my collateral offspring to read it as they would certainly lose what little respect they have for me.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
Brutal indeed. But who stores anything on a hard drive? I haven't done that in 20 years!
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I do. I back up my data and research in two cloud locations and an external hard drive that is in a different location from my office. Because I don't have the energy and fortitude to cope with what apparently happened to Jacqueline.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Well, if the documents exist, then either you will have a program that knows how to show them to you or you'll have to transform them to a program that you have (and hope the essential parts come through).
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This is an important point given the rate at which technology changes. How long will the methods we currently use for encoding information continue, and, as encodings change, how much of current information will be updated? Get out enough generations and the programs for converting from one early encoding to the next may no longer exist. There’s also a hardware aspect. If your information is maintained on some obsolete equipment, will you even be able to access the bits? I still have a few floppy disks around (they were second only to punch cards for use in subjecting students to crotchety old guy, back-in-my-day harangues). Not real easy to access that data these days.
 
Disregarding security and privacy issues, what are the cloud's function vulnerabilities? What extent of disruption would be required to degrade the reliability of accurate retrieval? What might be sources of disruption on that scale?
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Disregarding security and privacy issues, what are the cloud's function vulnerabilities? What extent of disruption would be required to degrade the reliability of accurate retrieval? What might be sources of disruption on that scale?
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Using Amazon's Cloud as the example, here is Wikileaks' map of their data hubs, as of 2018. There are more now.

The point is that you are far more likely to lose your modem or your local cell tower than they are to have dozens of simultaneous killer earthquakes.
 
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