Mobility

Solving one of the 'mobile' problems: I've been frustrated for quite a while because I have multiple PCs that I use regularly. Each of them (three to be more precise) has it's software setup to access my e-mail accounts. As you can easily imagine I would often find that an e-mail that I needed urgently at work was on my home office system... or vice versa. Well, last weekend I took a short train ride into Akihabara - the electronics district of Tokyo and solved my problem.

I bought a PC card implementation of a 5 Gigabyte hard disk! It's amazing. It comes in a small plastic carrying case and plugs directly into the PC Card slot in your PC. It looks just like a regular hard disk to your system - which is exactly what it is. Toshiba has done a fantastic job with this one. It took me about an hour to rearrange my files and links, but now I have all three systems setup to put my e-mail and other work files onto the PC card. All I have to do is to remember to unplug it and carry it with me. Now my challenge is to write some simple backup routines just in case something goes astray.....

- posted by tempusmaster @ 12:38 AM