Mullett's Corner

Sarah Scicluna -  http://flic.kr/p/5EWQf9 Well, here we are, yet another blogging platform I've had to clamber on. All thanks to another fantastic platform falling foul of lack of investors. Jux for all its worth has been the latest victim, Posterous is another fallen comrade and I can't bring myself to utter the words of previous platforms now nothing more than a name of a url which gets redirected to a bigger company which swallowed it whole. I guess this is the cost of being curious of new platforms and being one of the early adopters. I always thought Jux would have been different though, it strayed from the very linear (e.g this page) look commonly associated with blogs and flipped it on its head, with a massive focus on media. Now this wasn't supposed to be up against flickr etc it still held on to the fact is was a blogging platform but it made it such a nicer place to be, people write blogs and people have to be on those pages while they read them, so why not

Mani Babbar -  http://flic.kr/p/78eFU6 I've always been someone who believes having that extra backup is a necessity rather than an option. My iMac at work had to have the same file structure and programs installed as my Macbook Pro, my mp3 folder had to be the same over those two devices plus my custom battlestation at home. This became quite time consuming having to work separate syncing programs to keep everything up to date, had to use an external hard drive for the music as it was so large. Hints of OCD? Yeah, that happens, ectopic heartbeats were a regular occurrence when the syncing software displayed two files exactly the same and asked me to choose one. Bags had to be packed certain ways etc etc , you get the idea..  But it all started to change with the rising popularity of the murky fog that is cloud computing. I must have been introduced to Google Drive about 3 years ago now, and lets say I was incredibly hesitant, I DID NOT want another laborious sys