Inside Chris’s Head

I was in Dallas on business last week and I have the good pleasure of getting together with Cali and Neal from GeekBrief.tv. Cali and Neal are getting ready to head out on a year long road trip (August) in an RV called the Big Trip. In addition to adding a new travel show for the Big Trip they have decided to shoot a new video show called “On Location” where they will interview bloggers and podcasters. As long as I was in town they shot the first episode of the show interviewing me about the Amateur Traveler podcast, my day job and whatever else the people in the chat room on ustream were asking about (besides “who’s the dude?”).

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MacWorld is in San Francisco this week and I had a chance to go up for a Geek Brief meetup this evening. It is on days like today that I appreciate that I have an EVDO card for my laptop. For those of you not familiar with EVDO it gives me an internet connection through the cell system even when traveling, as I am now, on CalTrain between San Francisco and San Jose. So I have been chatting with a good friend from high school for the last 10 minutes while riding past Redwood City and now I am blogging as I pass Menlo Park.

I have even uploaded podcasts via an EVDO connection before. Upload speeds are much slower than download. Once it took me nearly an hour to upload a 35 minute podcast. But when you consider that I was in a car on highway 101 and stayed connected to my companies VPN for that hour even though I was traveling 65 MPH, that’s not half bad.

Certainly there are faster connections available, but having a connection that is more ubiquitous than Wi-Fi is a very nice thing. On the MacWorld show floor there is free wi-fi, but with so many iPhones and MacBooks you are luck to get a decent connection. Now if I only had a MacBook Air and 5 hours of battery life. Fortunately, CalTrain has power outlets.

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