Here I sit in front of this laptop after so many days of internetless woe (damn that fickle wireless). After brushing the dust of the keys I began to wonder what caused this significant lapse in posts… well lack of net access contributed no doubt along with that wireless which did test patience levels and continues to do so along with the simple fact of time constraints placed by current employ after all how many of us want to burn out our retinas in front of a CRT or LCD for the entire day only to arrive home and do the same?

Still have no understanding why the many power outlets throughout the house were not working the night of the storm and furthermore why useless devices such as the fridge remained powered but the most important device of all (the wireless connection) went down? Would gladly taken curdled milk with cereal the following day.

Now USB flash drives are considerably aged technology in todays time and as they have existed for more then 6 months nonetheless it seemed to be an ideal option for personal portable needs

As may be guessed by the picture the chosen form was a 4 gig Lexar with its Power to Go system. A mini debate between Lexar and Sandisks U3 system ran until Lexar was chosen for the mere fact that it is compatible with Vista (yes Vista has caused a few cussing incidents due to compatibility issues)

Why bother with portability you may ask. Well once upon a time my laptop was in tote with self wherever I went (with exception of toilet and beach) which really is not necessary as in current society access to a computer of some kind is easily managed. The computer you connect to will act as the host for your device which in this case is the Lexar. The beauty of the Lexar is that it operates in its own environment and removes itself leaving no trace on the host machine. May wash out the registry of your host computer so be careful not that I have a clue what that means and choose not to delve into the technical area to deeply.

Anyhow the whole true portable computing solution has burned the cerebrum for some time and prior to net-null incident was awfully close to cheering google docs, funnily enough having that temporary blackout causes thinkings to the safety of your personal data floating around the web (what if someone guesses your password?). Provided you are not a video editor or musician, the 4 gigabytes should provide plenty of space to carry around important documents, pictures and programs along with leaving room for backing up important work documents. Having all the lazy templates for various financial functions on hand is a blessing after all how many of us really remember by recall how to perform something as simple as a cash-flow or are able to recite a Coleridge level letter we have floating in our personal PC’s. Having access to your browser bookmarks is a definite godsend for we all know how tricky some of them invaluable web resources are to locate and once found may never be discovered again. That is the beauty of portability and having access to your data treasure whenever you require. Plug it in and provided you were sensible enough to copy the file across to the device it will be there for you whenever you require

There are many applications such as portable email clients, diaries, anti-virus, etc. that may be installed and run from the usb stick and we’ll save discussion on this discovery for a later post since the hour alloted to webbing tonight is close to being exceeded with the sites new theme set-up taking up the majority of that hour. I do like the theme as it reminds me of some places that I must organise to see soon.

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