This week we’ll be running a series of articles on travel for geeks. Whether you’re headed to Fiji for some R&R or to Singapore to supervise a team of ADA programmers, geeks are on the go. With that in mind, we’ll be talking about packing, booking tickets, buying foreign gadgetry, and surviving jetlag and X’s Revenge where X={Montezuma, That Weird Thing on a Stick, Oops I Ate the Ice Cube, …}. Today, we’ll talk about the ultimate Geek Go Bag and we encourage you to send in your best travel tips to tips at crunchgear.com or simply post them in comments.
CrunchGear: Flying the Friendly Skies with 50 pounds of Electronics and Getting Stopped and Strip Searched at Every Checkpoint.
The thing that bugs me most about taking laptop on holiday is that hotels and other accommodations do not publish full info on their wireless networks – for instance on hotel I stayed in recently advertised “wireless” broadband in every room but when I got there I found I had to purchase credit to get user and pass to access the network ggrrrrhhhhhhh! These hotels should be forced to make the terms of their internet facilities much clearer