… so, not that long ago, I got a 512MB SD memory card for Glitch, my faithful PDA. I figured it would be more than enough for a good long time, to fit in all the programs, games, books, music, and the occasional video I might want to take me. And so it was, at least for a while. Then, I got into podcasting.
Now, I regularly carry around some 6 hours of programming (on average), and a massive chunk of my storage space goes straight to keeping all those podcasts there. It’s been tight (especially since I have a bad habit of adding another new podcast to my listening roster every week or so), but I’ve been managing, keeping everything, a backup of my entire system settings made each morning, all my podcasts, programs, documents, etc., and still having 10 or so MB left over on a good day. But now, I’ve found something that leaves me feeling.. well, inadequate.
I’ve discovered I can take Wikipedia with me. Yeah, the Wikipedia. Apparently, the whole shebang fits in a single 400MB file (without pics, a little over 1 GB with pics). One file, locally stored, indexed, searchable, hyperlinked, in my pocket, wherever I go.. inforgasm….
So now I want.. nay, need a bigger storage card, simply so I can carry Wikipedia with me. I mean, I allready carry the Skeptic’s Dictionary, the whole site, in a single file, indexed and searchable, in my pocket, for whenever I feel the need to debunk something. That’s just a 6MB file, no biggie. But Wikipedia… man! Back me up on this, people.
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BTW, credit for the above image to jkOnTheRun, where I linked the story from. I’d heard about the mobile wikipedia from Jenneth and others, but didn’t get to actually blogging about it till jk’s post. So thanks.
Portable Wikipedia………….R t3h 4w3s0m3.
Hm, sounds like Katsu’s pr0n collection is growing…
Hey, if you’re looking for pr0n, Absu’s your man, dude, not me.
That I am… but, perhaps, the phrase you’re looking for is “priapic demon overlord”.