There’s zero shame in being the first kind :-)
One of the first thing I did when I got the new computer was to put a symlink to my projects directory in my Dropbox folder, so that all of my projects now get backed up to Dropbox automatically.
git push origin develop
Personally I have a mirrored drive set that I use as my primary storage, and a third disk that I rsync to nightly and use for backups of other stuff, because I don't trust that I won't have filesystem errors or controller problems that might render both disks in the mirror unusable. Then on top of that I use Crashplan to ensure I have an offsite copy.
For most of my code I also push to github or private external repositories regularly and/or pull to my laptop.
Maybe a bit paranoid, but I've had to recover from enough scary hardware and software failures over the years to not want to take risks.
Your post has got me wondering about Vim again.. :) Making the switch to Sublime Text has got me appreciating a more shell-like interface for some things.
Have you ever found yourself wanting to code and not have an internet connection? I think that's a pretty rare scenario, I'm rarely offline.
The few times I have wanted to code offline, I've also wanted to look something up >.<
Between having tethering and generally ubiquitous tethering, we should be good.
I think I want to try getting into VIM again. Is there a good resource site you like, where I can find a decent guide and some pointers on where to find some language dictionaries? Totally off topic but I'd appreciate it.
Once I got the basics down (15 minutes in vimtutor), I noticed enough productivity gains to use it immediately for note taking and scripting. Then I just decided to jump in and use it for a real project. I learn new hotkeys, plugins, and config tricks every week and I just feel my productivity inch its way up and up.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-MB167B-A-Wireless-Keyboard/dp/...
Making the Macbook Air 11" the lighter option.
I have the wireless keyboard (the older three-AA revision) and it's comparatively lighter than my 7" Tab, which is 380 g.
edit: Charlie Stross says 325 g for a four-AA revision in http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/ipad-wri.... Macworld says 323 g in http://www.macworld.com/article/150600/2010/04/ipadwhichkeyb...
My keyboard, bought in November 2008, part number MB167LL/A, definitely takes three.
Current revision available on Apple's website is MC184LL/B and that one is well known to only require two.
When you do this, much less important data is stored locally, on developer's actual machines.
Now we're on Mercurial and life is better.
Edit: A nice win with the Linode is that they back it up for me for $5 a month. Sure, there are solutions for the desktop too, but somehow I never got around to using one of those.