TooMuchGreen

My good friend and fellow tech head Adrian has been upgrading his home network (substantially) and dropped an open inquiry from his blogsite the other day for user comments about their own setups, as I’m what you may call globally mobile at the moment I thought it might be fun to give a quick breakdown of my travelling tech.

Two years ago I gave up the corporate shirt and tie, sold my house, eBayed all my possessions and now operate online from a suitcase and “carry on bag” from whatever Craigslist apartment I’ve rented in whichever country I happen to be in at the time, and it all works remarkably well (the tech travels in the carry on bag).  Read more... (estimated reading time 3:19 mins)

As you know I’m presently a big fan of the mobile lifestyle, partly through need and related ease of transportation but also partly due to the mental clarity and lack of conscious clutter it brings, it’s quick, compact and cathartic being able to pack all my worldly possessions into a Caterpillar travel case and a Crumpler backpack – clothes, toiletries, books and tech, it’s all in there.  Read more... (estimated reading time 3:29 mins)

It doesn’t take long to be reminded how ‘German’ Germany is and to encounter some of the reasons which make it so. It started for me on arrival at the hotel when I fired up the complimentary computer in the foyer to be greeted with a Linux desktop…! Although proffering such niceties as being open source, super stable, virtually hack proof and virus free, as a computer operating system it can admittedly have one foot in the technical (unless you’re familiar with Ubuntu of course), anyway – enter the Germans with their quirkily obvious and unphased liking for the boundaries of the technical alternative, case and point the BMW C1 as pictured above.  Read more... (estimated reading time 2:16 mins)