why .Mac ?

[Steven Hatfield]

Hello everyone,

I thought I'd chime in a little here -- my first post to this list  
will be to defend .MAC and give you a first hand account of how it  
saved my bacon once.  I know that I could have used other services,   
but in the end it was .MAC to the rescue.

I was taking a Spanish class, and in this class I needed to give a  
presentation (in Spanish of course).  I decided to present to the  
class my history with the guitar, and to describe the parts of the  
guitar and its history as well. Part of the presentation was to play  
my guitar at the end with a song that I had written using Apple's  
GarageBand software.  I would use PowerPoint for the presentation and  
printed hand outs so that the other students could follow along with me.

The day of the presentation, I copied everything onto my laptop and  
took it to work, where I discovered that I had forgotten to copy the  
actual song that I wanted to play at the class.  To me, without the  
song, the presentation would have been seriously lacking, and I  
wouldn't be able to show off my guitar playing skills :-)

"No problem", I thought.  I'll just connect to my Mac at home (I have  
a dedicated server setup on the Internet) and download the song.

I tried doing this, and to my dismay, the Mac could not be seen from  
the Internet!  Of all days for something to be wrong, this was NOT  
the day.  Because I live 20 miles south of where I work, and the  
class is 20 miles north of where I work, there was no chance of  
leaving early and driving 60 miles to give the presentation -- I'd  
arrive too late and too tired.  It turns out that since I live in a  
new development community, the builder had accidentally cut through  
some lines while working on a new house, and it took them 6 hours to  
fix it.

.MAC to the Rescue
Rather than panicking, I spent a few minutes thinking about possible  
solutions... and once my brain settled on the fact that I had copied  
the music file to my iDisk, it was all but over.  I connected to my  
iDisk on my laptop and downloaded the song from there, problem solved.

It was then that I decided that I'm a .MAC user for good, and I  
actually use it much more, and much smarter than I used to,  
strategically copying important files to the iDisk, consistently  
syncing my AddressBook contacts, Mail (etc).  Now I know that if  
something goes wrong, at least I won't be without my most important  
data.

The presentation went very well.  (La presentación se fue muy bien.)

¡Hasta la próxima!
-Steven


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