Today I have been thinking about a few things. Things that are not of massive consequence to my life, but would make it significantly better if I could/did implement them.
Mostly these things revolve around my passion/obsession/hobby of web “design”, development and writing. At the moment, if I am not at home, I don’t have adequate tools for writing or designing at all. The only tool I have is my iPhone, which is fine for writing shorter passages of work such as this, but is completely inadequate for any significant writing process.
What I am currently thinking would be the ideal set up would be to have a proper desktop computer at home, with plenty of processing power, and a nice, fast Internet connection for things such as dowloads, serious development work, and media storage. Whilst on the move, an ultra portable laptop or netbook with a 3G Internet connection (preferably on the Telstra NextG network) for writing, simple development, and occasional media use. The next level down in terms of gadgetry to make my life simpler is obviously the iPhone. This device is amazing for things such as a basic camera, texting, updating twitter, making calls, writing shorter entries that starting my netbook for would be pointless and of course media use actually on the go.
With the hardware aspect of this sorted out, I would then need to start looking at what Shawn Blanc calls “everything buckets”. Somewhere that I could store all of the data that I would be likely to need on the move, and be able to access it from anywhere, along with syncing those files across all the two computers so that at any given time, I can be sure that I have the most up to date version of any file on which I want to work.
I think that if I could afford, and did, implement these things I would never be caught with an idea that I want to put down, or start working on, and not be able to get a start on it because I didn’t have the tools at hand at the time.
