Opinions and Observations

Thoughts and ideas about corporate blogging, content syndication, and information systems.

Welcome to everything about me. This site is an aggregation of many things that I do and many Weblogs that I maintain. This is also a unified interface for my consulting clients; companies that I advise concerning matters of emerging technology. This application is built using my latest innovation created with co-founder F. Andy Seidl, the MyST platform. It demonstrates a fair degree of agility, especially for syndication and publish-subscribe content.

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February 15, 2008

Outlook Hammered My Contact List

I've used Outlook for what seems like decades and in fact is decades. Today (for the first time ever) I awoke to find that it discarded all 1241 of my contacts.
Was this related the Tuesday's Microsoft upgrade? Dunno. But the scary part is the loss of contacts rippled across my Mac and my iPhone without any indication. This is a testament to ubiquitous synchronization but not what I was expecting.

It's really cool to add an ap0ointment on my iPhone and see that appointment ricochet across iTunes to my Mac calender, and then on to my desktop automagically. This is achieved with Plaxo Premium which [thankfully] has a backup-rollback feature.

As an atheist, I often find myself being thankful without anyone (or anything) to thank. In this case, there's no irony - it's Plaxo.
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