I found this interesting blog from a site referred to as Digital Nomads. As a worker who finds myself on the go a lot these days with my new job I find the idea of using a coffee shop as an office amusing and odd, and also given the amount of confidential chatter, most dangerous. 

I shudder to think of what kind of job would have me walk into a coffee shop with a laptop and set up office for the day. Imagine my horror when I read the blog about arriving at 10 thirty and leaving at 6:00.

Generally I work in the office, I can meet clients in a coffee shop if i want to I suppose, but what does that make me as a trusted specialist ?

Anyone got any thoughts or ideas on this ?

Coffee Shop Office

There are lots of tools available for blogging , messaging, photo uploads etc. I am well impressed with the new suite of tools for windows live users. At http://get.live.com/ you can download the new betas of the Microsoft Live suite of desktop tools for XP and Vista. I find the blog tool very handy, by default it published to windows live spaces but can also be used to publish blogs to other providers.

The Photo tool is great as well, it also has a PhotoSynth feature that is pretty neat. It also uploads your photos to live spaces.

I also have installed the MSN messenger application onto my facebook page, this is pretty handy as I can now update my status by changing my status in messenger.

All this stuff is free, now all I need to get is a tool that remote controls my XBOX so I can schedule downloads and stuff.

I have been playing a lot of Viva Pinata:Trouble in Paradise lately on the XBOX. You can take pictures of your creatures and garden and upload them onto www.vivapinata.com, I have taken a bunch of them and uploaded them here.

http://y2kprawn.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!6BDC8C108B55437D!227/

Makes nice gentle desktop wallpaper.

On windows Live and FaceBook you can now add messenger to your FaceBook account. One of the cooler features of this is that you can update your "what are you doing now" from messenger. So when you change your messenger status , you also get the change reflected in facebook.

This is especially neat for me as I can use messenger on my XBOX, so when I am playing a game, the status update is sent to FaceBook as well. 

Windows Live Messenger Developer Blog : Messenger on Facebook V2