One of the thorns in my side of late has been my idiosyncratic iMac G5, with it's incessant desire to switch off at random and interrupt anything I happen to be doing. It's become such a problem that I've actually abandoned it as my home computer and have conceded defeat.
Today I spoke with Apple on the phone and made steps to activate that Applecare protection plan I purchased about 2 years ago (!) and put it to some good use. So far the outcome of this is that I should be able to get my machine repaired in short time and I will be back online again. Wow!
In the meantime, I've become reacquainted with a nomadic data lifestyle again and needless to say have embraced online storage like you wouldn't believe. Flickr, Google and even wordpress are the name of the game and I honestly don't think I could go back to the way things were.
Having said that, some form of permanence is important, as I noticed with difficulty during the hour in which I searched for a working scanner to make the simplest of conversions. Whilst I was doing this search (eventually finding a scanner) I noticed a sign warning of USB data loss and how to avoid it on campus! I nearly did a double-take when I saw this, thinking to myself that I would scan the image into the machine, upload it to flickr and use it elsewhere. Why do I even need a USB stick? These things do come in handy when transferring stupidly large files, but docs etc?
Perhaps this is just my frustration at filing conventions that backfire or fail completely, but the online tagging and searching capabilities have completely rewired my conceptions of data storage and retrieval.
Hello brave new world..
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