While I’m there, I hope to collect all the days thoughts and some photos on this travel blog. Since I’ve never written a blog before, I suppose the first obstacle will be maintaining the discipline to post every day, assuming I can find the time every night. At best I hope to make an entry every other day. The next obstacle might be finding an internet connection. We’ll be staying at a few relatives houses, whom I’m pretty sure have a connection, but some of the time, we’ll be staying at my paternal grandparents place, which might not. Since the condo is in Taipei, I imagine I’ll be able to find some kind of free connection; then the exercise becomes frequenting the establishments on a regular basis. Not only is this important to chronicling the trip, but since I won’t have a cell phone, it will be my best means of communication with my wife.
I currently have Picassa installed on my computer and will use it for photo management and online storage/sharing. Canon does come with some software for file transfer and minor manipulation but I have yet to install it. I’ll probably also attempt running Photoshop CS3, which might work fine if the Nvidia ION can handle the load. I’ll have to see how much post processing time I have each day.
I’m generally using Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer to compose blog entries. It just makes it a little easier to create the entries offline, and save unfinished drafts locally. It will also allow me to post whenever I can find a good connection. I’m not sure if I’ll be installing any wardriving software since I’m not familiar with the laws in Taiwan about that sort of thing. Hopefully it will be a non-issue.
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