Geekin' it up on the way to Wales. I'm sitting in our hire-car -- a little Vauxhall Corsa, or as we all know it, a beep-beep Barina (the car that can go-go-go!) -- writing a 'blog entry on Dee's netbook ("noodle") whilst connected to the 'net via a 3G mobile phone. Meanwhile, Dee is navigating with our new GPS unit (a Garmin Nuvi) and listening to MP3s. Ain't tech grand?
Seriously tho', we've wanted a GPS thingy for a while, and when I couldn't get a USB one for noodle we decided to hire one from the car-hire place ... but they didn't have any! Apparently they go missing, who'da thunk?! The car-hire man was kind enough to point us towards a Curry's Electrical outside the congestion zone (who wants to pay just to drive through London?) so we got ourselves there (just barely) and geared-up. (Actually, we didn't end up buying the ol' sat-nav from Curry's, as the staff were by all appearances apathetic morons to a man. We went next door to Halfords. It still took longer to part with our hard-earned cash than we liked, but at least they actually had stuff in stock.)
Anyway, I'm using this as a test -- can we post from the road with mobile Internet? Can we keep in touch with people when we have no fixed address? Can we connect with you guys from a hut in Thailand, a caravan-park in Western Australia?
Let's see if it actually posts, eh?
As far as technology goes, I have an iPhone. It plays the part of Netbook because I can surf the web, mp3 player of course, and with google maps it's a bit of a gps as well. It's perfect at placing me on the map in Adelaide (and moving while I move) so it'll be interesting to see how it goes on the drive from Adelaide to Bendigo.
ReplyDeleteIt's also an eBook reader, movie player, game console and sometimes i even use it as a phone ;)
Technology is cool :)
I posted but it's lost in cyber space
ReplyDeleteLet's try again
ReplyDeleteHoping you have a restful holiday in sunny Wales. Here is freezing.