Ampersand switched to gmail (well, google apps) last year and hasn’t looked back. This means that I can get at all my mail, calendar, contacts, etc. from any browser anywhere. But in order to work effectively during the summer abroad I needed to monitor and respond to short term emails from anywhere — a train, [...]
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Our family decided spend 9 weeks this summer travelling around Europe. Since I was unable to take 9 weeks off cold turkey, this was to be a summer working in Europe for me and partly for my wife, not a summer off, so we need to be able to communicate easily and [...]
I was fortunate enough to be able to work from Europe this summer, combining the need to earn a living with the desire to spend the summer with the family in a variety of interesting locations. It went well, and in this day and age it’s certainly possible to do a lot given an [...]
Well, it does for me anyway. A month back I wrote that I was trialing both the iphone and the g1 (aka google phone) side by side, as a candidate replacement to my blackberry.
Bottom line: I’ll be carrying the g1. The iPhone is a beautiful device, but with my usage the battery runs out in [...]
It used to be that I would struggle with the month of March — there was VON in San Jose, and a week later David Isenberg’s excellent Freedom to Connect unconference in Silver Spring. But, not being a professional conference goer, I would either skip one or the other, or else attend both and [...]
I’ve been spending some time playing with mobile technology in the last few weeks, and will write some more comprehensive notes here when I get a chance.  But here’s the gist:
 I was in Italy on vacation, and used a Nokia N95 with the 3G carrier Tre (3).  I used to carry a first gen [...]