Mindstab.net

I love tomboy. I drop tons of my ideas into it. And plans. Lists. Anything on my brain. The problem is as soon as I have more than one computer, like now with my netbook and laptop, all my thoughts are split in half. Ever since tomboy hit the scene years ago I’ve loved it but also known it needed synchronization to be the best and truly useful to me. I’ve only had sporadic luck with the sshfs sync. It worked last year. Now it doesn’t.
Anyways, I finally couldn’t stand it any longer and decided to sign up for an Ubuntu One account that goes with the Ubuntu Web Sync plugin shipped with Tomboy on Ubuntu. I’m not normally one for web services, I like to roll my own where I can (email, jabber, blog), but here since sshfs sync wasn’t working and snowy (tomboy online) is pre alpha, I didn’t have a choice.
(Actually, in hindsight I realize I could have tried and been using sync to local folder and placed that in my DropBox, whoops)
Anyways, it was painless and now my notes are synced to the cloud and my brain is healed. So thank you Ubuntu. I’m not a huge fan of proprietary solutions but no one else has a solution at all, so you win by virtue of just shipping. (Of course this isn’t exactly a multi platform approach, I just thankfully only run Ubuntu on my laptops right now. A few years ago when I ran Gentoo on desktops/laptops this would have been a no go, and Dropbox would have probably floated to the top of my mind sooner)
Let that be a lesson to the rest of you, ideals are good, but solid options are better.

I need to get back into blogging, but like so many others, twitter has been eroding at that. We shall see.