getting ready to go again

should be back on the boat in a couple of weeks. The yard in Arisaig launched her a few days ago. Planning to go to the west coast of Ireland. Have the charts on order. Going to take a couple of friends for a short trip around the Small Isles as a shakedown. At the moment I'm trying to sort out a computer. I thought I might have a go with a pay-as-you-go wireless modem and an asus EEE pc . The asus looks like it should be boat compatible with no moving parts but I had hoped that they would have improved on the two hour battery life by now. This list is partly to see if my iPod touch works for blogging. Seems ok but photos from the camera gto the blog would not be supported. Having said that, I'll probably be spending most of the trip beyond reach of fast internet via a phone, often don't even get a phone signal, and uploading photos could be expensive. So might see if one of those wireless modems will work with an old wireless router that is lying around here somewhere and maybe use that plugged in to the invertor when I can use the iPod.