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Apr. 3rd, 2008
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Uploading my metabrain to the noosphere
Apr. 3rd, 2008 05:04 pmOne of the nice things about the modern world is not having to worry too much about where my data is being stored.
I like having my calendar on my phone - it's very handy, and stops me overbooking myself too much (or at least doublebooking myself too much). However, my phone occasionally goes wrong, gets lost, etc. and has to be replaced with one that staggeringly doesn't come with my calendar on it.
However, I back my calendar up online, at google. And the people use to do that (GooSync) also back up my contacts at their site. Which means that half an hour after getting my phone I've set it up with a Sync entry (that they texted to me) and all of my data is back on my phone again.
The same's true of my email - it's not kept on any single device, it's just out there on the interwebs, available from anywhere I happen to be. This weekend I'll install a decent email client (I really like profimail), and have access to everything as if the phone was never lost in the first place.
I have a bunch of information stored online - simple documents in Google Docs, complicated ones are on SkyDrive. All of my music, videos, and miscellaneous other data is stored on the Terastation, which has RAID, but I really ought to organise that and sort out an offsite backup at some point.
I look forward to the day when I can totally replace my worldly goods and not actually lose any of my information at all.
I like having my calendar on my phone - it's very handy, and stops me overbooking myself too much (or at least doublebooking myself too much). However, my phone occasionally goes wrong, gets lost, etc. and has to be replaced with one that staggeringly doesn't come with my calendar on it.
However, I back my calendar up online, at google. And the people use to do that (GooSync) also back up my contacts at their site. Which means that half an hour after getting my phone I've set it up with a Sync entry (that they texted to me) and all of my data is back on my phone again.
The same's true of my email - it's not kept on any single device, it's just out there on the interwebs, available from anywhere I happen to be. This weekend I'll install a decent email client (I really like profimail), and have access to everything as if the phone was never lost in the first place.
I have a bunch of information stored online - simple documents in Google Docs, complicated ones are on SkyDrive. All of my music, videos, and miscellaneous other data is stored on the Terastation, which has RAID, but I really ought to organise that and sort out an offsite backup at some point.
I look forward to the day when I can totally replace my worldly goods and not actually lose any of my information at all.
I love the internet
Apr. 3rd, 2008 11:31 pmOver here Warren Ellis talks about a script he wrote on his way back from the worst convention ever. He links to the Wikipedia article for WinCon, so I followed that link, only to discover that the article now contains the text "Ellis described the 1999 convention as "probably the worst convention I ever attended." - with the link going back to the article I'd just come from.
Sometimes the internet feels like a great big conversation. With all the good and bad things that that entails.
Sometimes the internet feels like a great big conversation. With all the good and bad things that that entails.