The topic comes up regularly in our household: how are we connected? What are we syncing to? Could we eliminate any of the extra steps? What – this isn’t typical conversation in your house?

So we decided to make lists. Every place online we store data. @Johnstok sent me his list and I looked at it and thought – oh wow, okay, surely mines less than that… Nope. Not only did I have some to add, I uncovered more for him!

So here is my list of sites and apps that I push my data through or sync to almost daily (and sorry sites, but I can’t link to each of you – maybe if there weren’t so many!)

63 68. Count them.

There could possibly be some missing still – kinda scary! When do you reduce, when do you consolidate? It’s surprising how they add up. How many do you have? is there a chunk of them you could ditch?

It’s been 5 days since I’ve been webless, apart from my iPhone (where I’m currently writing this post), which helps for the nessecities through it’s apps for Twitter, Facebook, my email client & it’s Safari browser. However, it is still a small, hand held device, not really meant to completely replace your computer for tasks such as copy/pasting, viewing items large or spell check (so forgive any typos in this post please).

Today I was on a mission to take my computer out and give us both some much needed wifi love & attention. Thinking I would give Victor @ Centotre a break from my mug, I tried some other places on for size. Hrmmm…

Local uno: weak connection & exceptionally loud music. Bareable once I switched seats to obtain said weak signle, then when battery was up, that was it. No plugs. Notta one!

Place two: found a plug, wifi works on iPhone, but not on Mac. Killing me!

Cest le vie. Computer, my love, today was not meant to be…

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