Cloud Storage – Salvation for your Data
It’s not just we humans who need saved from our sin nature. Our data needs saving too. And the cloud’s become the place where salvation occurs. Gone are the floppy disks, the ZIP and JAZZ drives, the CDs and DVDs, and to some extent, even the USB drives. The major benefit of the cloud, besides the increase in storage space it affords? You can’t easily misplace something that you don’t physically possess.
It’s thrilling to win in a competition—even when victory is sealed sheerly because one offers to pay more money for an object than the next guy. That’s precisely the victory I experienced many years ago at an auction house near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In fact, I don’t even remember what I “won” the right to purchase. What I do recall is the feeling I got when the auctioneer pointed at me with his gavel and said, “SOLD! To the sharpest dressed man in the room.” I felt a popcorn popper rush of energy, a surge of adrenaline like back in my high school sports playing days.
Local auctions didn’t always get my heart pumping. But the PBS television series Antiques Roadshow put a light on the possibilities of discovering rare and unique items at neighborhood estate and garage sales. The show’s appraisers became rock stars; when they stood onstage, I listened.
I even visited a Roadshow taping, traveling five hours with some dusty old wares to Hartford, Connecticut. Though my items were essentially worthless—family heirlooms I should continue to treasure, as I was told—I did find my way on camera…accidentally. My father and I were caught on tape as we wandered around the Roadshow set aimlessly, searching for the collectibles appraiser. Though not an ideal television debut, as I sat and watched my image on plasma, my heart did begin to race. You could say I felt an auction house high.