in the clouds...

Been thinking a bit lately, and experimenting, with the value of the cloud. No, I'm not getting off the deck of the planet's surface with lofty time-wasting... rather, appreciating and testing the value of online living.

Moving from the early ideas of desk-bound communication, our mobile world follows us rather than being a place that we access from single points beyond our daily lives. Even in 1975, there was a preview of the advantages... have a look at these slides!

• Gmail, Picasa, me.com, online storage and backup, Google calendar

Sure, there are some dangers... NPR presented a report that's got some helpful cautionary value to it.

But I'm prepared to embrace the good of the new before fearing the bad of its shortcomings. Yeah, I'm cautious and conscious of security... but the online world is a resource to use rather than run from in a sweat.