Synch me, will you?

Here is the dream of the chumby:

I don’t need to “get a life,” I have too many already. I just need to reconcile, to “synch,” them better.

We’re hoping that the chumby will help reconcile real and Net lives for some people. … It’s meant to be passive. It’s “sort of” what’s going on in your Net life, with the occasional alert for when you do need to put your real life on hold and engage completely with your Net life …Frankly, I don’t know if it will really accomplish this goal or not (maybe I’ll now be staring at my chumby in the living room and still missing the puppet show), but it’s an attempt. [Chumby Corporate Blog]

My experience so far is mixed. Which parts of my net life are actually passive? Or could be? I’m still figuring that out.

Setting up a good mix of widgets will take time–and a fair bit of experimentation. Until then, Chumby’s more of a time sink than a life synch.