Day one of our holiday sees me casually blogging on my iPad next to the pool looking out over the sea! Not bad!
I decided to make this the first holiday in a while i didn’t take a laptop/net book on to see just how well this iPad thing works. My objective is to keep myself entertained and informed using the ipad while keeping in touch with folks back home. A little overkill for a week in Greece maybe!
I spent Friday buying a couple of movies, stocking up yon podcasts and audiobooks and downloading a few relevant eBooks into the Kindle app (boo iBooks!) so content wise I’m good to go. I bought the camera connector kit from Apple to enable me to uploAd my photos and I also downloaded a few apps like wordpress,photogene and flickrstackr to facilitate on-the-hoof blogging.
So far all goes well. I picked up my new geotagging camera at the Airport (panasonic TZ10) and charged it last night. Some of the pics are below, or you can checkout the photos page by clicking on the camera above. They should also now be on a map on flickr if all has gone to plan!
Logging off for now to nod off!
Rob
Part two:
We are now on day two of the holiday having spent today at the beach. Unfortunatly after writing yesterdays blog post I ran into the old geek travellers bug-bear: connectivity. The hotel wifi was down, which was acceptable for an evening, this being Greece. Imagine my horror, however, when 24 hours later connectivity has not been restored. Yes, incredibly, it seems the hotels ISP does not offer a decent SLA. Time to take matters into my own hands. After a quick assessment it transpired the routers dhcp service was clearly not functional, and after a a quick selection of standard static ip setups it soon transpired that the router I’m currently connecting to is most likely a linksys (192.168.2.1 ftw) and I’m now probably the only hotel guest with wifi access!
I’ll write up a blog post tomorrow after our trip to corfu town, as today was rather uneventful, filled with sand sea and sun but little else!
