I've been a big advocate of keeping all of your "stuff" in one place for a long time. It's been more than ten years since I tried to do the laptop-desktop-syncro-dance because it just works best for me to have all my stuff with me always. And I hate switching contexts any more often than I have to. It not only slows me down - it seriously increases the possibility of stuff falling through the cracks.

So it was quite refreshing to see someone else have the same epiphany. In a post last night, Russell Beattie got it:

"But today I was working at home and instead of reading my news in the morning on my personal machine, swapping to my laptop during the day and then switching back to my own computer in the evening, I've been using the same box all day. Suddenly I'm getting to emails I've forgotten about, updating to-do items, organizing things that crossed my mind later in the day, etc. Ahhhhhh… Wow. What a difference!

Now that I think about it, I worked for almost 8 years as a consultant, pretty much always having one laptop with everything on it: emails, calendaring, code, etc. I never had to change contexts, and if I thought of something, whether it was work or personal, I could address it immediately. This, I think, is a big thing!"

A big thing indeed. Welcome to the one-computer-is-best-club Russ.