Moving my whole world online
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Over the past 12 months I've probably rebuilt my machine at least 6 or 7 times - so I'm getting pretty good at it. The good thing about doing a rebuild is that it's a fairly static set of tasks that you have to perform each time; so the more you do it, the better you get at re-doing it. But you still seem to end up losing stuff each time no matter how regimented your routine is. So now I've decided that, as much as possible that I'll use the web as my central filesystem and so hopefully, rebuilding will become even easier.
Up until now I've used the following online storage facilities to store my stuff:
Music: ???
Source Code: ???
Photo's: Flickr
My Documents - Sharepoint My Site (synch'd from Groove)
As you can see, I've made some inroads but am still looking for a good solution for managing my music and source code from the web.
One of minor thing's that has pained me about doing a re-build is making sure that I export my OPML file and then I have to set it up again by downloading an aggregator and importing my OPML file after the re-build. This might sound like a small task - but it all adds time to the total effort of doing a re-build. After working with Grant this week I was introduced to a great solution for managing my aggregator from the web - Google Reader (Beta).
My favorite thing about Google Reader is that they have provided a web part so that I can view new entries to my feeds from my home portal (Personalized Google Home). Here is a screenshot of my Google Reader web part displayed on the home page of my portal:
This is why I love portals and web parts. Now I will always be connected my aggregator and no longer will I need to migrate my aggregated stuff when performing rebuilds in the future!
What is your favorite online storage story?