When friends and family tell me they are uncomfortable posting photos of their children online, I'm usually the one saying "What's the big deal?" The kids are probably much better at advertising themselves on the various social nets than anyone can possibly imagine. But this combination of things hit me today, and I wonder if I've been wrong, or if my paranoiac tendencies are just now surfacing. You tell me...
I was driving home from the local YMCA, following a minivan down the road, and noticed one of those cute sets of "My Family" stickers on the back window. "How sweet," I thought to myself. There was Mom, Dad, 2 girls, 1 boy, and 2 dogs. As we pulled up to the stoplight, I saw Mom, 1 girl, and 1 boy in the car.
I've been traveling more lately, and that means alternately using my desktop computer when I'm home, and my laptop when I'm not. For years, I simply copied my main work files from one computer to another, going back and forth as necessary... sometimes loosing data, usually not.
A couple months ago I started to get tired of the dance, but more imporantly, I got tired of the limitations having to plan and execute the updates put on me. For one example, I'm sitting in my living room while I'm writing this. Not such a big deal on the face of it, but normally I would have had to stay at my office to do this because that's where my files were... unless I had taken the time to synch up my laptop before taking it from the office.
I had (and still have, to some extent) several major applications and data structures that needed to be synchronized, and those are the ones I decided to address. Here's the list of applications I need to connect:
