Monday, March 21, 2005

Where have all the files gone

You get used to the idea that a website service can do anything you dream up. Take files for example. I might have perfectly good reasons for wanting to include and attached pdf to this blog post, but I can't do it from the blogger universe. Not unless I host my own files. I suppose I could try to hunt down some file store type place, but the point of the excercise was to see how much I could do using the google family.

Now I perfectly understand the limitation. Let people have file uploads and there's a whole world of pain. Hell someone could post binaries, full cd iso, mp3s - and as we all know you can't find those things anywhere else on the web. Maybe the way to do it is with torrent links, but that somehow seems less like the solution.

Score another victory for the happy trio of ascii text, gif, and jpg. We love you guys.

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