As soon as I read the news I downloaded iSync from Apple's web site. This new tool is supposed to synchronize data in all your calendars and address books between several computers, iPods, cell phones, Palms, etc.

It's about everything I always wanted from my personal information management software: besides the small gizmos (I own both an iPod and a Palm), I regulary use 3 Macs and I would *love* to have address books and calendars synchronized between these 3 machines as I always have something stored on the other Mac (I would also like to have these data syncronized on my Windows machine... but this is another story).

So I installed iSync on two, set up the .Mac account (synchronization is done trough Apple's servers, and you need a .Mac accoun), hit the sleek "stainless steel like" button and... I got a server error.

Checking the Apple's site, I noticed two things:

• iSync is a beta version
• on the discussion group I found out that everybody's having the same problem

Now... I'm sure that tomorrow everything will work again, maybe even later today, as soon as somebody find this out and fixes some script on some server.

It's not that I'm not disappointed, I am, but I have also released enough on-line services to know that Murphy rules in these cases, and it happens especially if you release stuff on week-ends, when there's not the usual staff available to fix problems if they occur.

Oh well... in the meawhile I synchronized my iPod, and now I have all my contacts and my appointments with my music. Useful? Don't know yet.

This morning I found cool topics links on Marc's blog, powered by LiveTopics.

I've been trying LiveTopics on my k-log for a while, and I must say that it's very interesting. The main reason I like it is that I'm not much a big topics fan. I mean, I think that having to organize everything I post is additional work and I didn't think it was worth the effort. With LiveTopic it's so easy that you get a topics-based organization of your work almost without efforts.