First, I'm going to use Google Docs, Google Calendar, Gmail for this experiment. I like some of Zoho's features more but I'm already sharing some Google docs so it is in some ways a "legacy" application and I'll stick with it.

I'm going to save as much work as possible to the cloud, either in Google Docs folders or on Amazon S3 storage. Again, I already have an S3 account so I'll stick with it.

I will work with multiple machines, including a laptop running Vista and an Asus Eee PC running Linux. I'll probably do some work on a Mac OS X just to show the operating system doesn't matter.

Finally, I'm not going to fight to make things work in the cloud or with online tools. The goal of this exercise is to see how much I can easily move online. For example, I don't know of any online replacement for Microsoft Visio. Of course, I'll keep using desktop only tools for specialized applications, like integrated development environments (IDEs).

I hope by the end of the week to have accumulated enough experience with cloud desktop to save others from the some of the unproductive paths I go down.