I'm a nerd. Here's some nerdy notes.

Cameras: I'm planning to take my point and shoot. its maybe a year old. Its grand. Now the bad news is that I can take a lot of photos - over 100 a day. So amazon sent us 10 8g sd cards. Betcha we still run out. Betcha that I look at the idea of only 80g of storage and laugh. I've also bought space on Picasa which was dead cheap. The hope there is that we'll be able to get the originals back through takeout later. Facebook is much more of a pain in this respect. We've also got some blank cds, which we'll try and back stuff up onto. The fear here is both losing or damaging a SD card, and also theft.

My Camera can upload photos direct to the internet. Making this functionallity work has been a pain in the backside. It also seems to drain the battery. We'll see if it works out there.

We'll probably want to get into email and facebook while we're out there. We'll probably do it from internet cafes with interesting collections of malware. So 2 factor and SMS auth. SMS auth is a bit more of a pain as we don't really know phone numbers out there - experience and common sense argues for buying a new sim card. I've also picked up a yubikey for lastpass. We'll probably still have problems.

I'm taking an android phone, and to reduce the impact of it being lost or stolen I've set up the android / google apps corp system for registering phones the control panel. It lets you ring phones, wipe phones remotely and tells you where they are. Its a google apps for your domain feature that actually costs money, but its pretty cheap. And it means I never lose my phone again. I also set up the normal security settings - encrypting the phone and so on. We'll see.

This site is hosted on a little virtual machine sitting in London. To get into it I depend on ssh keys. I've stuck those keys on my phone and can connect with connectbot, but using a unix text editor with a phone's keyboard may drive me insane. We'll see how much blogging we do ;-). I have thought about putting putty and the keys on a USB stick and plugging it into internet cafes - we'll see.

I also have a kindle. I like the kindle as its dead light and has a ton of books on it. Laura points out the kindle will probably be nicked. We'll see. At least I bought a waterproof bag for it at some earlier point.

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