I’m a digital pack-rat. I save *everything*. It’s getting hard to track it all though.

In the old days, I just archived off my email every once in a while. I used ‘talk’ a ton back in the late 90’s, and there wasn’t really any way to save those, though I’d just kill to have those logs now.

These days, there’s a bunch of stuff to keep track of. The good stuff just does it all itself. This public blog is all nice and automatic. The ‘family’ blog — same same. IM is a little tougher though. Trillian keeps a nice log of everything, but they stick it in Program Files, so it’s super easy to fuck up and lose it all when you reinstall. I have a pretty bitchin’ backup system, but I think I’ve never added the trillian logs to it. Wooooops. Plus I have trillian on like 3 different machines, so I gotta be sure to back up all of them, even though they all go through the same account. Everything is all so distributed and crappy.

Next is facebook. I don’t think there’s really any nice way to back that stuff up at all. There’s a firefox extension to do it looks like. Nice job idiots… just make a program would you? A firefox extension is useless to me (although maybe it’s the only way). Almost everything on facebook is a useless waste of time, but everyone once in a while there’s something, and I want to have it backed up somewhere, so I can go find it when I’m 60 and just wanna go back and re-live my digital youth.

Sidebar: I’m yearning just yearning for the day that facebook is replaced with something that does not suck.

I’m starting to think that the wave of the future is for me to have my own secure block of data somewhere in the cloud, and everything I bounce or post on the web I want to get stored here. Every facebook post. Every blog post. Every email. Every IM. It should all pass through this block and get saved there. It would sortof a content-aware storage proxy… thingamajiggie.