Shifty Crumbs

Inkblot's daddy sent her this video:

It's called Shift Happens. It's about globalization and the ever-expanding technology of our times. It's slightly frightening, but massively exciting, for Inkblot to think about. She means to say that it kinda sucks monkey butt that her junior year of college she will have to "unlearn" half the stuff she learned her freshman year because of how outdated it will be. Of course, it isn't like it happens over night and we will have to learn it out of nowhere. We will be adapting to the change as it comes, but it does seem sort of a waste for us to be learning all these things that won't even be useful to us in two years' time.
In relation to this technology race we seem to be having against ourselves, Inkblot has been trying to find a way to store humongous files (ooh! sidenote! Did you hear that Webster's Dictionary added 'ginormous' as a word the other day...) on the internet instead of on her computer to save space and have access to the files no matter where she is. Inkblot is having trouble figuring out exactly what she wants, though. Ideally, it would be more like a website than a place to download the files. Downloading is more for sharing files, but Inkblot wants to store them and access them in other places so she can work on them. She's thinking a lot about big term papers and long stories (possibly novel-length, there is one in the works!). Inkblot wants to be able to go to a certain website and look at her work much like she would look at a Microsoft Word document, but online so that she doesn't have to wait for the file to download, have enough space on her computer, upload the updated version back to the storage space, and then delete the file from the computer. It's just too high-maintenance. Inkblot wants something a lot like this blogger account. She comes in, has an easy to use formatting thingy (though she may like a few more extras like the ability to indent and more font options), can type up what she wants or copy/paste it, can edit stuff she's worked on before... And then everything is saved on the internet and not on her computer, and (barring a huge internet crash - cross your fingers, God forbid!) it'll never be deleted unless I want it to. It would also work where, if you didn't give anyone the link or the password (a password would be ideal) then your files would be safe from potential essay-stealers or whatever. If such a website-like-thingy-majiggy actually exists (yayness), please let Inkblot and her other readers know! And, of course, all technology-related thoughts, comments, ideas, fears, etc. are welcome. Much love,
Inkblot