I’m heading to China for 19 days, and so the big activity this weekend is packing. I found myself enumerating all of the electronics gear that I’ll be taking:

1. Apple MacBook Air – my personal laptop
2. Dell E6400 – my work laptop
3. Power brick for the MacBook Air
4. Power brick for the Dell
5. Mouse – my Microsoft wireless mouse will have to do for both; I’m not bringing my new Apple Mouse
6. Moshi combined SD card reader and USB hub
7. Apple iPhone
8. iPhone USB cable and transformer (the original one, which accepts Apple international plugs, not the cheesy little adaptor which they introduced with the iPhone 3)
9. Android G1 – my international phone (which I hope to replace with an unlocked T-Mobile Pulse from Huawei)
10. China Mobile SIM card
11. G1 USB cable (incompatible with iPhone USB)
12. Amazon Kindle 2 e-book reader
13. Kindle USB cable (incompatible with iPhone and G1 – standards are wonderful)
14. Sennheiser earbud headphones
15. Panasonic DMC-TZ4 camera
16. Battery charger and spare battery for DMC-TZ4
17. Apple Airport Express (so I can create a WiFi access point if the hotel only has wired Internet)

There are definitely too many cables.