...and do your bank-business with this person via email or telephone.

And yes, you should keep notes of all the expenses you make with your credit-card and communicate this with your trusted person. A debit-card and ATM-machines work better, most of the times. (Mastercard or Visa). Use only ATM-machines in banks during office-hours.

If you want to be connected:
In most of the Latin countries you can get prepaid "Banda Hancha". Most of them work with a Huawei-modem.

"Keep in mind that many places have very poor bandwidth and latency."

I don't know what this has to do with security of your data.

It is also not my personal experience. (I live in rural South Chile). To get a new release of my OS takes 24 hours on broadband. If I go to the next village, I'm ready in an hour by hooking up my laptop to the Internet-Cafe infrastructure.

If you want to keep a blog, do it via http://www.posterous.com./ Blogging via email, perfect if you don't know when you will hook up to the Internet again. Of course you use an email-client.

Don't let them steal your netbook but realize it can happen.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/24/michelle-obama-photo-goog_n_368760.html

The apology of Google. "Sometimes Google search results from the Internet can include disturbing content, even from innocuous queries. We assure you that the views expressed by such sites are not in any way endorsed by Google. [...] We apologize if you've had an upsetting experience using Google. We hope you understand our position regarding offensive results."

Will we see more apologies in the future?

Freedom of expression is not the same as freedom.

From a practical musicians point of view:

It is a kind of sport to know who is playing the sax whenever I hear a recording. This is not only sound but also phrasing, tempo and melody. (Some Jazz-recordings are pretty bad in sound quality, but it is always nice to hear Charlie Parker for ex.).

Most of the people I meet cannot even hear the difference between a soprano, alto, tenor or bariton sax.
It is the same with the violin-family or with the flute-family.
An oboe and clarinet are sounding the same to a lot of people.

Music like language has a lot of redundancy.

They are not reading glasses in the classical sense. They are 'computer-screen-glasses'.

You should tell your ophthalmologist or optician that you want lenses to read a computer screen that is about 60 cm away (measure your normal distance). A book or newspaper you read from a distance of 30 cm.

It means that you have to buy special glasses for computer-work.
If you do a lot of computer-work it is really worth it. It saves your back and good spirit.

Most ophthalmologists and/or opticians are not aware of this. But they know about the problems of performing classical musicians reading their score.

to discover the real meaning of a GPS.

Having a night watch, stormy weather.
See the ETA going up from 40 hours to eternity,
Like in the old days with modems and file-transfer.

Take a sextant and paper-charts as back-up with you.

"God bless America"
 

I agree, Wave has everything to become a killer app.
Now let us see how people are going to use it.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

A real cloud doesn't know the borders of a country.

As out of first hand experience I can say that it is like that in the Netherlands, probably in EC as a whole.
Also in Latin-America. I know this immediate transfer to another bank-account is also possible in Chile, probably in Argentina and Brazil too.

Each land has so its own little banking-tradition, as if money is not international.
For example in Chile you can not open a useful bank-account (cuenta corriente) the first year of your legal stay. Even if you own a registered Chilean Company.

Pricing strategies vary from country to country, even when you deal with the same bank.

It is still a mess, not only how they invest, but also how they deal with customers.

What is a wave?

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

See for more http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.htmlGoogle Wave

Do they pee in the same thing as they shit?

Garbage in Garbage out maybe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_In,_Garbage_Out

If you can label it, you can staple it

I've reread this a few times and I don't get wiser.
I'm 55. Maybe I'm having dementia praecox? ("It refers to a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood.", Wiki)