You may have noticed fewer videos on KTVZ.COM this week. (Then again, maybe not.)
Our video service provider, Syndicaster, is located in a data center in lower Manhattan, so … power was cut off there as floodwaters rushed in.
Their (Critical Mention is the co.) gear is upstairs and all fine, they say – but without power, they had to wait until the water was pumped out below so they could get going again.
We’ve been using workarounds to get video on the Web – but considering we’re still rasslin’ with a recent major change to a new video editing system, well … the Perfect Storm hit us, too.
It just goes to show you that all this “save it in the cloud” folderol is … a bit overblown. Nothing gets saved up there in the sky. It’s all down here, and all the precautions and backups in the world aren’t going to prevent occasionally getting snakebit.
There is NO comparison, of course, to our tech hassles and the misery those in the Northeast are facing. But this interconnected world of ours does bite back once in a while.
It’s good we’re so connected, most of the time. But we can go well beyond Bill Clinton’s “I feel your pain” line when you literally depend on those a continent away for the things you take for granted, day in and day out – until they aren’t working.
And then, you remember, and realize just how thin the veneer of ‘everything’s OK, just rollin’ along’ really is in today’s tech-dependent society.
Leave it to Barney 