I spent the entire day today backing up the GE data. It’s crazy the amount of data I produce! Plus everything has to be securely backed up and accessible, which can take a long time. So overall today I had two computers moving a couple of hundred gigs around.

In the evening I went out to the electronics store because I was thinking about getting an ipod. Usually I use my phone, which can hold around 5 hours of music, but due to the very silly digital rights management, I can only transfer data across to it in real-time, which is a real pain. I also want to listen to more motivation CDs and language CDs ( important to always keep learning myself!), so figured I could just have an ipod with everything on it! But…. in the end I decided I wouldn’t bother as a) ipods are really expensive! b) Once you have your data on an ipod you can’t copy it back to your computer, i.e. you still have to keep the 40 gigs of data on your hard drive ( space which I don’t have on my laptop) and c) It’s an extra thing to carry around! So I’m going to stick with using my phone, I can still transfer data across from my computer every day, and it’s so convenient to have everything ( ebooks, schedule, music, games, photos etc. etc. ) in one unit.

I also thought about getting the Edirol PCR-1 keyboard, which would be great for composing on the road, but once again I figured that travelling light is probably the best bet. The digital lifestyle ( i.e. having everything, books, magazines, TV, video, music, email etc ) on my computer is the least heavy to carry around the country.