Well, we moved out of our house and this week I have been focusing on getting everything ready for our move to Japan next Monday (September 8^th).  That being said, the vacation is over, and it's time to start blogging again.  :>)

To start things off, I figured I talk about Google Chrome.   After all, it seems like just mentioning it will guarantee someone will read this post (HA, seriously enough people!).  Anyhow, I haven't had the chance to really look at it.  But, I wasn't really surprise about the announcement.  Instead, it was just a matter of time before Google did this, and in doing this they have:

• Most likely killed their Firefox deal.
• Most likely have impacted Firefox's market share.
• Started to challenge Microsoft in yet another front.
• Mave found yet another way to horde my data and information about who and what I do.  :>)

With that last comment in mind, I arrive to the main point of this post.  Over the past couple of weeks.  I've been trying to accomplish two primary goals in relation to my identity and my data.  The first, goal was to take steps to better secure my personal data with a secondary goal of making that data more portable.

Seeding these goals, were two big changes.  One was the move to Japan (hence portability), while the second was the refresh of my laptop.  Both of these changes presented an opportune time to re-think how I deal with my data, plus practice what I often preach.

Making my data securely portable:

Yes, securely portable is a strange term, I just made it up.  But, the term sums up something I've wanted to accomplish for some time now.  My wife and I have tons of data.  Some data like account information and such is sensitive, while other data like pictures are not.  In either case, I need to make sure that this data is both available to each of us (where ever we might be), in certain cases better protected based on what the data is, and in certain other cases sharable so that we can collaborate on that data.

So... I needed to find solutions for my data problem.  Unfortunately, there isn't really anything off the shelf that would handle everything that I needed.

Over the next couple of posts, I will explain how I will or have reached these goals and some of the pain points I've encountered.  Hopefully, the information will provide helpful.