The Mobile Worker

My car has died - I am stuck on the side of a lonely country road.

I have a busy morning planned - ten years ago this would have been a problem. Not now.

I called AAA from my cellphone, then rescheduled two meetings and made a couple of other time critical business calls. Didn't mention I was stranded on the side of the road as it doesn't matter.

Obviously I have my laptop with me, and have spent the last 20-30 minutes responding to emails that came in during the evening. I'm not on the Internet now, but don't really need to be to respond to emails - I'll send them later.

I also have a bunch of promotional material to write on my Blogging for Business book follow on plan; a course description on business blogging I'll be offering soon, three articles that need finishing, a proposal for a keynote on "Monitoring Blogs for Competitive Intelligence."

Also, should my laptop battery go dead (do I have the carpower cord for my Dell with me??), I've got a few hours of reading; the new class material for my SANS security class later this month and a fascinating book called 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators - From Idea to Execution by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble.

(towtruck arrives - finished post an hour later)

Ten years ago I would have been out walking. No cell phone to call for help - and certainly no coverage in this rural area. And if I had sat in my car, there would have been no business calls and no laptop to work on.

Things have obviously changed a lot, although winter in New Hampshire is STILL COLD :)

Will post part II later, on the towtruck driver's Internet entrepreneurial undertaking.
(note: I posted part II on my other blog as it's more appropriate there)