I loved learning that many of the bodega owners paid their workers for those hours they were closed.

Yea, I have tons of respect for those Yemeni bodega owners; you know they work on really narrow profit margins, and closing down for 8 hours was a big sacrifice for a lot of them.

I amazes me every time there is a discussion about cloud storage that SugarSync is used by such few people.

I honestly don't understand why. There is nothing that DB offers that SugarSync doesn't. If you just want to have a signle folder synced and put everything in there, DB style, there's the Magic Briefcase.

There's a great quote by (or at least often attributed to) Winston Churchill that's somewhat similar, "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."