A couple months ago, a colleague at work introduced me to DropBox, which was in private beta at the time. Their motto is simple: online storage that just works.
Take a look at the video and give it a try. They have clients for Windows, Linux and the Mac.
I just started playing with it, but I can already see that it has a very good chance of becoming a key member of my utility toolbox, along with such gems as Pando and FileZilla. It makes it very easy to synchronize documents or other files across multiple systems, and keep version history.
It also means that businesses are going to have one more mechanism to worry about if they don't trust their employees. 
You get a nice 2.0 GB of storage to play with, and I expect that there'll be more made available for a price, and you can save both public and private data. I'll post another update once I've used it for a couple weeks. I'm going to link up my home PC, laptop and work PC to the shared storage account and see if and how it changes my data management experience.
Or, as I recently pondered on my Facebook, Plaxo, LinkedIn and Twitter status updates (via HelloTxt):
Andrew wonders whether or not the ubiquity of micro-blogging has diminished our capacity for substantive conversation...
Is our reliance on the immediacy of information, and our apparent fascination with providing up-to-the-minute reports on our daily activities getting in the way of deep, and meaningful communication?
The jury is out (for a very short recess), but I'm very tempted to say, "YES!"
For myself, I get very busy during the summer. Each year since I started blogging, I've found that my post count goes way down in the summer months, relative to other times in the year, and this year is no exception. But I also notice that this year, since I started really using Twitter, as well as the status updates functionality on the various social networks, I've been less inclined to take the time to sit down and write any lengthy commentary. As a result, I haven't posted anything here since early July, even though there have been plenty of subjects worthy of discussion.
In an effort to reverse this trend, I am committing myself (no pun intended) to writing at least one post per week for the next two months. And I have a lot of catching up to do in terms of what we did this summer (Camping, Family Fun Day, the Beach, Technology Projects, etc).
We spend so much time saying so little of anything useful, that we are not inclined to say anything meaningful even when given a chance to do so. I enjoy the fact that over the past 3 or 4 months, I've been getting reunited with friends and colleagues through the social networks -- but, at the same time, there is a sense that we are just cramming more and more activities into smaller and smaller windows.
What we need are more deep, abiding friendships, and less casual acquaintances, and the way to cultivate the former is not via texting, microblogging or IM...
Is the trend reversible? That's a very good question.
Today was our first trip to the Shepherd Lake recreational area in Ringwood, NJ for 2008, and the weather was very accommodating.
My wife took the opportunity to get some rest in the sun, because she wasn't feeling up to playing any games or -- heaven forbid! -- going boating.
And so, she rested. (BTW, she promised that she would injure me if I posted any of the pictures I took of her sleeping onto Facebook. So, I won't. You'll notice, that this isn't Facebook.)
Because of the recent auto accident, we couldn't take the minivan to Shepherd Lake, so we didn't bother to carry our inflatable kayak with us this time. And, considering the temperature today, that was not a bad idea at all! I was roasting for much of the day. When my wife feels a bit better, and the weather cools down some more, we'll definitely head out on the water with kayak.
Still, there was much fun to be had in the water, and also with playing football. There was even some jump rope activities going on for a bit. 
I'll be posting some of the pictures I took this coming week -- both here and on Facebook (except for any that would get me injured, of course).
Besides the people that came from our church, a couple of my old friends -- from way, way back -- came out with us as well. All in all, it was a great day, with lots of fun. Once again, we were blessed with great weather, despite a forecast that originally called for rain in the afternoon. The kids pretty much spent most of the day in the water, and I get quite a bit of relaxation. And my wife had some fun and lots of rest.
We're going back out there in August and September, and we expect to have more fun.
On Friday morning, July 18th, my wife was rear-ended by a Snapple truck while she was sitting at a traffic light. As you can see, the minivan took quite a beating from the hit.
Thank God, she does not appear to be seriously injured, and none of our children accompanied her for this trip. She's still a little sore from the incident, so we'll be keeping an eye on the situation over the next few days or so.
The van is off to be assessed and repaired.
Not a fun situation, to be sure, but we continue to count our blessings in this situation, as things could easily have been much, much worse!
On June 26, Microsoft released Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing. You can download it today!
Now, I can really finish up with my home network virtualization project, which has been languishing because I haven't had a lot of free time.
A few reviews of Beta and Release Candidate code can already be found on the web, including this review published by Network World.