PDA, Bluetooth, SD-USB Blog downloads on the road

[Bossies]

We have a blog and will be wanting to update it as and when we find a internet cafe but to avoid wasting time sitting in expensive internet cafes we want to get a way of typing up the text before hand and then simply cut and past into a email. So I have spent some time trying to decide what would be the best hardware solution for us. First I thought of taking my Toshiba Portege 3440 laptop which is so small it vanishes into the bottom of my topbox. But that is just overkill.

I have now decided to the take my HP5550 PDA, a bluetooth keyboard and have fitted one of those nifty SD cards thats folds over and can work as a USB card. So save the files on PDA as a txt onto the memory stick. Take it out and plug it into the internet cafe computer and cut and paste into email...and hey presto...

I will point out that I bought my PDA as a impulse buy from a mate of mine who flogged it off on me so I am not up to speed with it's detailed operation. I know how to type a file and use the calender. I'm one of those that has decided to give up trying to keep up with the pace of changing/advancing technology. No I don't own a Ipod...

So to the technoguru's out there; where's the risk in this it solution. I read the recent post about USB corruption and viruses etc but they are welcome to copy my blogs which will be in the public realm anyway. Just wont store any confidential into on the card which I was thinking of doing.