Last night I was at James and Jennifer’s house and they were lamenting the fact that I haven’t blogged in about a month. I explained that it wasn’t so much because I wanted to stop blogging as it was that it had simply become inconvenient to post because my technology patterns were different. I am getting online at work as much as always, but now I am kept extremely busy and I work in an open lab environment where I rarely (if ever) have an opportunity to write. At home I am spending less and less time on my laptop and more and more time working on music down on the desktop machine in the basement and I don’t find that machine (which is, gasp!, a Windows PC) to be conducive to blogging.
The main writing I do is done, as this post itself is, on my Palm Tungsten which has wifi and a word processor and a nifty little folding keyboard that fits in my pocket. I use this now because I have back problems that keep me from wanting to carry around a backpack with my laptop in it. The problem is that I hadn’t figured out a good way to take the things I wrote on the Palm and transfer them to my blog since I can’t get it online from work and I usually forget to post what I have written on it by the time I get home. The only other mobile blogging option I have is my phone, a Moto SLVR, and I used it during NaNoWriMo but I can’t write really long and interesting posts using it because typing on a numeric telephone keypad sucks and when I get over a certain number of words the thing drags to a crawl.
Last nights rebuke, however, inspired me to figure out a way to write on my Palm and post to my blog whenever I could either A) get to a wifi access point or B) get to any Internet connected computer. It turned out that I had everything I needed with me, almost. My SLVR has a Micro-SD memory card in it and a USB connection for recharging. It just so happens that when it’s plugged into a PC for charging it also mounts the internal memory card on the desktop as a drive. My Palm has a regular SD memory card slot but no ability to connect to a PC without it’s little cradle/charger thingie or a wifi connection. The only thing I needed was the ability to copy a file from the Palm to the Micro-SD card from the phone, which could in turn be plugged into the USB port of the computer. On the computer I can open the file, copy the contents into my web browser, and post them to my blog. The missing piece, a Micro-SD to regular SD adaptor. It just so happened that I had a couple of those lying around that came with Micro-SD cards I had purchased. SO, to make a long story longer, I grabbed one and stuck it into the little leather case for my phone.
Here I sit now, taking a ten minute writing break in the cafeteria before heading up to begin my day at the office, typing away on my little folding keyboard, secure in the knowledge that I can get these words online in a matter of minutes once I am sitting at my desk. Oh the glory, the rapture, the ecstacy….
I promise, my next post will actually be about something. 
