I'm kinda thinking of trying to have all my notes and emails and such in the cloud. Seems like it would get around my sync issues with my PDA since I could access everything from any device regardless of which software I had installed. Then I could revert my netbook back to Linux and not have to worry about running out of drive space with XP, etc.
I'm storing a lot of notes in evernote and my to do list is slowly being migrated to toodledo. I'm sync'ing my PDA calendar with google calendar. Experimenting with using meebo for instant messaging.
But, I was just fiddling with gmail today and found some entries in the forum about some recent changes google has made to the gmail interface. People were used to working in a particular way and google changed some code and messed up their systems. I had the same thing happen to me with hotmail years ago and it still bothers me. I like new software but I don't like having it rammed down my throat.
And there's the issue of backing things up. I have copies of my emails going back to my first tentative forays on to The Internet way back when I thought that the be all and end all was CompuServe. I want to keep collecting my mails and I don't want to be stuck in a situation where through misunderstanding or (heaven forbid) violating some obscure Terms of Use item my account is terminated any files deleted. I do like having control of my stuff.
It doesn't look like the cloud is quite ready for me to move in completely yet.
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