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Rocking the Mobile Workspace… August 1, 2007

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My version of the ever-present “what’s in your gadget bag?” post… These are staged photos, as I haven’t had a chance to take a “real” picture at work or at client sites recently, but I wanted to take a moment to work through what my current mobile work setup is.  As I’m heading away tomorrow to San Antonio for the Manager Tools Conference, I needed to run through my gear anyway just to make sure everything was present and correct.

First up - that’s a flickr link photo, and there are notes on it there.  This would be my gear laid out and ready for work.  “Other stuff” is shown later.  Working clockwise from the left, what you’re looking at is:

I don’t have a cellular link for the Q1 in this setup, but give me a network cable, or WI-FI, and I’m good to go for 4-12 hours (or more), depending on what I’m actually working on.

That’s the “core kit” out and ready.  Here’s what everything looks like when it comes out of the travel bag:

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Same deal with that being a flickr link.  I laid it out like this because it’s (usually!) how the gear is stored inside the bags compartments - the top two rows here, for instance, are usually in a two-by-three pocket arrangement inside the bag.  Key differences between this photo and the previous is that everything is cased up.  In addition, you can see:

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Top Row:

Bottom Row:

And that would be, pretty much, my traveling office.  I’ve recently started carrying a 250Gb Passport drive from Western Digital around, but didn’t have that around when I took the photo.  The only “main” thing that I didn’t photograph is the mains cable for the Power Station.  That doesn’t add much bulk or weight to the kit.  My bag would usually have a couple of pens and some notepaper, a book and/or a magazine, sunglasses and my travel documents, and I’d be good to go.

Oh, the bag?  Heh.  Let’s just say I have a small “obsession” with them.  I have over a dozen, and that’s after a recent purge of them.  The one I use will depend on the type, length and “profile” of the trip I’m taking.  My current day-to-day bag, and the one I’m going to go to San Antonio with, is a Brenthaven ProLite III, originally intended for a 17″ Mac.  Has just the right number and distribution of pockets for my current needs, but it hasn’t been really field-tested by me yet, so we’ll see.  Incidentally, my day-to-day load is roundabout 10lbs; fully loaded for San Antonio, with most all of the above, and a reasonably sized book for the flights, it’s still under 20.  I can live with that.

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