First there was your email on the web, then your docs & spreadsheets and with Web 2.0 marching ahead, the entire desktop is on the web. These ethereal environments promise to keep your entire context (files, shortcuts, desktop configuration et al) consistent and accessible from any computer anywhere in the web - a tall call indeed. Though most of them are at alpha / beta stages these are quite usable and provide features to fall in love with. The long list of Web desktop environments (Web-tops as they are called) includes some free-to-use, some subscription-based services. Some of these are even open-source - which is good news because that allows even organizations concerned with security to deploy intranet-only versions of this backed up by their own storage and run their own custom (licensed) apps... one can't exaggerate the convenience *that* provides. You could be anywhere with a laptop / PC with hardly any storage or server backup but enough connectivity and do all your w