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I have three questions for the hive mind:

What’s the best service out there for syncing up folders? DropBox? SugarSync? Or, since I’m a Windows-only user and only have a few gigabytes of stuff that I care about, should I just use Microsoft’s free service? Are there nonobvious pitfalls to watch out for?
What’s the best travel site these days? I’m embarrassed to admit that I still creak along with Expedia. What things do other sites do better?
For all you Gmail users: what client do you use? Does everyone just use Gmail’s web client, or is there something better out there?

And finally, a tech success story, just because they seem so rare these days. A couple of weeks ago the power went out here, and when it came back up my email database had been corrupted. After diddling around a bit I gave up and figured I’d take another run at it later in the day. But when I got back from lunch, there was an alert on my computer telling me that my RAID drive had finished repairing itself. Sure enough, I rebooted and everything was fine. So the extra few dollars I spent getting a RAID array when I bought my new box a couple of years ago actually paid off. And it worked completely automatically in the background, just like it’s supposed to. I guess it says something about modern computing that I’m a little shocked at this.