{"id":944,"date":"2004-09-04T08:39:11","date_gmt":"2004-09-04T12:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=944"},"modified":"2004-09-04T08:39:11","modified_gmt":"2004-09-04T12:39:11","slug":"is-that-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"Is that all?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert X Cringely<\/a> prepares to flee a hurricane:<\/p>\n\n

Given that my personal space in the Town & Country minivan is just enough for a briefcase, here’s what I’m putting in mine. I’m taking my notebook computer so I can work on the road. I’m taking an IEEE<\/span> 1394 FireWire external hard drive containing every operating system, language, compiler and application I care about, plus all associated data. The FireWire drive holds 250 gigabytes and I only have it about half full, which seems pitiful for having spent half of a lifetime doing this stuff. Finally, I have on my wrist a watch with a built-in 256 megabyte USB <\/span>flash drive holding all my e-mail since 1993, everything I have written since the late 1980s, and a bootable Linux partition. So worst case, I can buy a new PC wherever we land, plug-in the watch and be up and running again in minutes with most of the stuff I need.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Say one thing for the years since 1945: they have made it easier for a writer to be a refugee, assuming that there is the right technology at the other end. I am haunted by the suicide of Stefan Zweig<\/a> and his wife, who killed themselves in Brazil in 1942. There are two interpretations of his death. One — favoured by the writer I have linked to — says that he was was despondent over the rise of Nazism; the second, that he could not bear, as a writer, to be cut off from his native tongue. So a modern Zweig flees with all his works to somewhere sufficiently remote and primitive to be safe — and kills himself because he can’t get a driver for his firewire disk.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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