On Sat, 16 May 2009 23:03:58 -0400, RLM wrote:

On Sat, 16 May 2009 21:10:03 -0500, HeyBub wrote:

RLM wrote:


My safe deposit box costs $38 per year. Seems cheap to me. What do
you consider cheap?

Family will keep a copy of a CD for free. Free is cheap! It's
availible on weekends too! Day or night if need be. I also have a
couple of fire safes in the house and live in a community with 24 hr.
fire protection. So I can also keep a copy.

CDs cost money. A Gmail address is free.

Gmail allows up to 8Gigs of storage (last I heard). Send an email to
yourself with the pictures in a ZIP file attachement.

The documents are, like Elvis, out of the building. They are accessible
anywhere to anybody with the password. They are easily updatable.

Where's the bad?

I already own a dozen re-writeable CD's that can be copied and erased over
and over like floppy discs. Nothing wrong with online storage. I offered
it because I'm sure I'm not the only one that has them setting around.
Rewriteable CDs are getting harder to find - but rewritable DVDs are
available everywhere (and for less than the rewriteable CDs.