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Rain from the Cloud needs filtering
May 27th
I love ubiquity. Especially across personal devices. With services like 
Google and the venerable Microsoft Exchange Server I can quite simply pump unified data up to the cloud and have it rain back down on me in a sea of data that holds my life together. There is however one big drawback. Does everything really need the cloud?? Ok so it is all easier if it is up in the cloud but maybe the rain from the cloud needs filtering?
As much as I love having access to files with Dropbox, E-mail (read as Gmail), Calendar info with Gcal or Exchange the ubiquity comes at a cost of often times redundant data. That redundancy is what impurifies the data and ends up making me want filtered rain water.
Of course many would say that data redundancy is user ID-10T error related. Maybe the data I am flowing up to the cloud needs to be purified before it evaporates into the ethereal plane of 1′s and 0′s. But really I think the cloud should be “intelligent” and could see the identical data. Then not only should it register multiple items and maybe merge the two as one but should do so and stream in related information that is in other parts of my cloud so as to enrich the rain with minerals. Nuggets of information that was caught from all the rest of the bit stream and placed when a pattern is realized.
Maybe what I am talking about is not really doable… maybe the stream needs to be purified before sent to the cloud… maybe I am not wanting to use my brain enough and am just being lazy…
Or maybe I could put my cousin’s birthday party on my calendar and contact, address, and shopping preference information could come up.
Maybe I am just crazy.
Scheduling Fail – but Why?
Feb 8th
So I have a tendency to be booked all over the place considering that I cover Maryland, DC, and Virginia. My main problem is that quite often I will agree to do something over the phone and not put it in my calendar or just plain ignore my calendar and schedule things anyway. Now the truth is that I have no excuse to let stuff get screwy like this. I utilize Google Calendar, Remember the Milk, Twitter, and my company’s Exchange support. It actually is really effective because I let stuff live in the “cloud” and can change the data through several different mediums. I can send a tweet on my phone to Remember the Milk (RTM) and it puts the task/event on my list. I can also just add an even on my calendar in my phone and its syncs with Exchange. Then if I have no access to VPN or phone entry is not feasible then I can get on any computer with internet access and dump it on my Google Calendar. Google sync then does two way syncing with my Outlook Calendar and puts the data in both places. So my thinking is maybe I just have TOO many ways of adding things to my calendar and tasks. Maybe the whole process of getting stuff done is so convoluted that I need to consider streamlining it. I mean though it sounds really complicated it all makes sense to me and just works for me because I am always switching computers and my phone is always dying. Web 2.0 powered sites and apps are what makes this all run. Hmm… Maybe its not the system that is cause the problem but the pudgy human bit that should be maintaining it all. I think I shall make an effort to be better about that too. I already feel better about my blog and my postings. More to come later.
