Time is drawing near and it will soon be time to begin packing for MLA. If you’ve been attending conferences for a while you may have your own routine down, but I bet almost everyone can find something useful in these posts from the popular blog Lifehacker.

Simplify Your Work Travel
This post lists 10 tips for working on the road. You can’t hear that reminder about backing up your data too often.

The Power Traveler’s Checklist, Part One: Pre-Flight
The Power Traveler’s Checklist, Part Two: Travel Day
These are two great checklists that contain links to lots of other useful sites related to travel. Be sure to check out the comments on the posts; there are more great ideas hidden there.

- Pat Higginbottom