I will be leaving town tomorrow for about 2 weeks and will be minimally able to remain in contact for the beginning and end of the trip but in the middle I will be basically completely out of contact due to internet costing > $0.30 per minute of connectivity. I will therefore be using it very sparingly (duh).

Your hotel only offers dial-up?!

No, the hotel offers some free internet. I will be on a boat at sea for over half of it and that is where it is expensive. http://www.ncl.com/nclweb/cruiser/cmsPages.html?pageId=InternetCafe

That's a serious rip-off, but I'm sure you'll find a way around it

I'm not quite sure what you mean a way around it? I was just planning to use very sparingly and possibly get the 100 minute plan to lower the cost some.

I have decided that I will post picture galleries and text on my website whenever possible during the trip, I have posted the first gallery already but I have not linked to it yet. I will probably post the link on my site soon as well as an initial post. I will probably add the visitor logging code into the gallery and then post the link, so it should be in the next 30 minutes or so. The link for my site will be in my profile as soon as I can add it.