Laptops, camera and other techno gear

[roamingyak]

Hi,

Have a chat with Martin at www.africa-overland.net as he creates websites for people travelling through africa as a hobbie and so will know what most people end up doing.

From what I can tell some cafes will let you plug in your laptop, but most won't. It's something you can't count on etc

Find out what a weblog is as this is an easy way of sending an email that automatically adds itself to a page on your website. Very useful when the connection is bad etc.

I wouldn't worry about the external hard drives too much (Something like the www.miglia.com MediaBank is good though if you need them). They are fragile things and prone to crashing taking your photos with them.
Best to try and get a cd writer, or even better a dvd writer (quite cheap now) preferabbly via firewire, but USB is fine also. Then just burn two copies or each set of photos. Send one home for safe keeping, and then keep one yourself etc

Thats my two cents worth! :-)