Ari's Planet

As a photographer, I tend to shoot a lot of RAW images. I need to back these up to DVD before clearing the flash cards. I don't carry a computer, just a portable DVD drive. There are many Internet cafes in Japan and Ulaanbaatar. In Japan, the only one with a DVD writer was Manga in Shinjuku, Tokyo, but the imminent typhoon Fitow terminated my attempts at burning at DVD. On to UB, where cheap 24h internet access is readily available (T600/hr, or $0.50/hr). But they don't have DVD writers and won't let me plug in my DVD writer (not sure why). Hmmm.

Update, 9/11: The guest house has a DVD burner and doesn't mind me plugging in my own, which seems to burn a little faster. Having the two DVD drives means I can make sure the disks are readable. Still takes >30 min per DVD, and with 4 disks to burn this is taking a long time. Got JAlbum, standalone, to try to resize the jpegs for my website.