Survey: Did You Get Sand in Your Computer? | Fall 2001 | ITforUM | Office of Information Technology

Survey: Did You Get Sand in Your Computer?

Summertime, and the living is supposed to be easy. You take time off work, you travel, you hope to "get away from it all".... But in the Information Age, getting away may not be what it used to be.

Admit it! Did you smuggle the Palm into your beach bag, alongside the suntan lotion and the beach novels? Did you surreptitiously keep calling to check your voice mail the whole time you were in Hawaii?

Complete the "totally unscientific" survey below and submit it to us and in the next edition of the ITforUM, we'll print the results.

1. Did you take a computer or cell phone along with you when you traveled on vacation?

No! Yes - but just a PDA Yes - a Laptop Yes - a Cell Phone

2. Did you check email while on vacation/away from the office?

No! Yes - once a week Yes - every 2-3 days Yes - every day

3. Did you check voice mail while on vacation/away from the office?

No! Yes - once a week Yes - every 2-3 days Yes - every day

4. Did you use an online map program to chart your vacation; or the Web to help you plan it?

No Yes

5. Did you use a GPS (Global Positioning System) device to keep you from becoming lost or to assist you in refinding your way if you were lost?

No Yes

6. Did you purchase airline tickets or make accommodation reservations via the Web?

No Yes

What other information technology did you find useful while on vacation/away from the office?

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