{"id":1674,"date":"2006-09-24T15:18:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T22:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/24\/have-gadgets-will-travel-not\/"},"modified":"2006-09-24T15:18:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T22:18:26","slug":"have-gadgets-will-travel-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/24\/have-gadgets-will-travel-not\/","title":{"rendered":"have gadgets, will travel (not)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s gettting tricky. Flying I mean. I once spent a (paid) week on some obscure island, waiting for the laptop I had to check in to arrive. It was a compaq 286. Yes, I am that old. Since then I say good bye to whatever I check in. When looking for said laptop in Frankfurt they showed me the amount of lugage that got stuck in one week at the airport. Since it had been months since the thing found an interested owner it was kind of pointless. But fun too. Hours and hours among suitcases.<\/p>\n<p>rant inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/expensive_camer.html\"> an interesting solution to the check-in problem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s gettting tricky. Flying I mean. I once spent a (paid) week on some obscure island, waiting for the laptop I had to check in to arrive. It was a compaq 286. Yes, I am that old. Since then I say good bye to whatever I check in. When looking for said laptop in Frankfurt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Evolution of Travel Tech: From Compaq 286 to Modern Gadget Woes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Reflecting on the challenges of traveling with tech over the decades. 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