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Friday 2009-05-15 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Panic mode
I'm spending the day packing — I've almost never been so late packing, and this has various reasons. A minor reason is that I've been "under the weather" for a week or so, so I'm running a week late now. Of course, our plane does't leave later, so I'm trying to squeeze two weeks into one, which means chronic lack of sleep and still too little time.
A more important reason is that I'm also working on starting up with my own web development business, and that's a lot of work. Trying to combine that with preparing for a five-week trip was … interesting. It would not have been a major problem, if only…
If only I'd not decided to handle updating my travel blog a little differently, by using a netbook to directly type my notes during the day, so I don't have to write everything three times (first in a little notebook, then write it out as a story, then type it all in (while watching the clock) in an Internet cafe on an unfamiliar keyboard. And if only I'd not decided that I wanted a lighter camera for travel, and a digital one at that. And if only my new bank hadn't had a special offer for a mobile phone account with a good discount — with phone if you wanted it — and I wanted a different (mobile) phone for my nascent company; and the phone I got has GPS built-in, so If I'd take that I could leave my separate GPS home. The upshot was that I ended up with a lot of new hardware, all somehow intended to make traveling, blogging and taking photographs easier and lighter… but all of that needed to be tested, set up, practiced with, and even connected together.
Still, this week I finally managed to prepare the blog with the itinerary for the coming trip, and now I'm typing this on my netbook, and in a bit will send it on its way to see if the email interface to update the blog still functions nicely (and I haven't forgotten how to use it). So, here goes. And then back to packing!
Panic mode take 2
Well, the mail arrived all right and got posted — now it seems Kmail (the mail program I'm using on my netbook) was using a setting (encoding) that caused lots of weird '=20' and similar codes to appear in the text. I've tweaked it a little, so let's see if this helps. (Then I'll "repair" the previous post so it's readable.) If not, I'll need more experiments, and probably will have to pull an all-nighter to get my packing finished, too.
Panic mode take 3
Not much joy: more of those pesky codes, and it seems it´s not Kmail doing it, actually, though I´m not entirely sure of that either. I´ll try to send this from webmail (through the browser) instead of a mail client. Sigh.
