Yup

Ain't technology GRAND?  I agree with most everything in the above video and use most of the services therein (or have at least tried them), with the exception of Facebook (I deactivated my account months ago) and Flickr (which I just don't see the need for).   

The one thing that shocked me?  Boston College not giving out e-mail addresses.  E-mail may be passė in some circles, but it's still an essential communication tool for most of us.  Then again, one would imagine incoming freshmen already have e-mail anyway... so I can understand why BC wouldn't want to spend the money.  Infrastructure ain't cheap.

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Memory, on the other hand, most certainly IS cheap these days.  Witness:

That's a screen-shot from one of those Amazon love letters we all get.  I've gone on the record as spending about three hunnert Yankee Dollars for my first hard drive in the way-back.  All ten megabytes of it.  Yup... technology IS grand, innit?