Re: online diary, not public blog (I'm almost clueless)

de Franklin 05/29/2006 02:09

On 28 May 2006, Greg Conquest<gregconquest.com> wrote:

> Thanks for these suggestions, but this journal, with the multimedia
> included, is going to get big. And a wiki? They are designed for
> pblic access as well, aren't they? I will check into that one.
>
> Last night I was thinking about wysiwyg html editors, and I thought
> maybe OpenOffice could works as a basic one. Then I realized that I
> could also just use the OpenOffice OpenDocument format, across
> platforms even.
>
> I started the journal in OpenOffice, included one scan, and saw
> that audio/video can be embedded as well. When I went to save the
> document, there was a password option!
>
> Now, I have to: - check the strength of the encryption - determine
> if I can save the document to and open from my website (uploading
> and downloading each time would work, but a mapped remote drive on
> each machine I use would be much preferable.) - check to see if
> using html from OpenOffice would work as well.
>
> There may still be something better available, but I finally seem
> to have found a clue.
>
> Greg Conquest

There is a view that if something is really important then it should
not be put on the web no matter how well you think you are encrypting
it.

Personally I would be surprised if you outran the growth in USB
memory provided you didn't put movie clips into your diary.
Currently 1GB USB devices are quite easy to find and the price is not
bad.