It’s only about 6 weeks to go before we leave, so it’s high time to setup the blog. Since we’re not planning on travelling with a real computer, I have been trying to setup the blog entirely on Barbara’s ASUS Transformer tablet. And my general conclusion is that mobile devices are 100% deserving of the description “consumer” devices, because once you stop using them to consume information and start trying to create information, holy cow, they suck rocks!

First the file management software didn’t show that it had uploaded any of the WordPress files that I uploaded to our website. So I checked it on my real laptop and surprise, the tablet had actually uploaded the files, but it just didn’t refresh the list to show that it had! Then the WordPress app for Android had this tantalizing button called “Quick Photo,” but after taking a picture of Barbara and giving it a title and pressing the magic button…well we got a post on the blog, but no photo attached to it!

So it looks like management of the blog will be the old fashioned way mostly, through the backend, using the keyboard attached to the tablet. But hey, that’s what the real keyboard is for, so no big deal really.

Next, we have to setup accounts for family and friends, at least I’m hoping that if we do and they comment with their own e-mail addresses, then avatars can show up of their faces, next to their comments. That would be a nice touch.

And we need to figure out a good photo gallery system. WordPress has a lot of options for that I know, so it should be good. The keyboard for the tablet has an SD card slot, so getting real photos onto the website from the real camera should be pretty simple.

Of course, there’s still a million other things to do in prep for leaving. But at least this small one is crossed off the list. Next question…what should our twitter handle be…hmmmmm