So not only will I cross the Rwanda-Congo border today with 3 netbooks, 7 GPS devices, 5 digital cameras, a Kindle and 2 external harddrives, I am particularly happy about the following four things.
- Don’t laugh, but I only found out recently that I have internet on my phone. About two weeks ago in Nairobi I was cursing (again) that I had no access to my email. Within 2 minutes a friend of mine got it working on my phone. Nice!
- I have installed Gmail Gears. That is, I now have 10,000+ of my emails with attachment on my computer. I can also write my emails offline and then it sends them out when there is internet. Ha!
- Knowing that internet is down often in the Congo, I have purchased a USB modem in which I can place a cellphone simcard and use internet. Awesome!
- Finally, and this is the coolest, via my phone I can send myself an email and then it will appear as a post on this blog. Knowing that in upcoming months I will be in the field often where there is definitely no internet, this rocks.
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