Staying connected on the road

steve — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:32:48 +0000

As our RTW trip comes to an end I thought I’d document how I’ve stayed connected to my life in the e-world. These things are my sanity ties back to regular living:

Google Reader: blogs from friends, colleagues, ACM/IEEE publications and fun sites like PhD Comics
Podcasts: BBC Newspod, Buzz Out Loud, Guardian Science weekly, and TWiT are perfect for long travel days
Google docs to store notes and plan trips
Google gears for Reader and Docs offlline access
Twitter and Facebook to keep up with everyday life of those back in the real world
Rapidshare using wget -c for downloading TV shows (-c for resume because net access is sooo slow out there)

all on my eee-pc 900 netbook running Easy Peasy (eee-ubuntu) backed up to an external 100GB USB drive.

One thing that didn’t makehe cut was my USB GPS dongle. Next time we’re getting a GPS-enabled camera.

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Staying connected on the road