>>>> "Brian" == Brian Foley
<bfoley(a)dcs.warwick.ac.uk> writes: 
 Brian> A recent variation on this theme is the 'Home on iPod' feature
 Brian> that Apple were rumoured to add to MacOS X.
It's there.  An iPod is a firewire disk, and yes, you can have your
home directory there.  I haven't tried it, but I saw the doc.  It was
either in the Apple docs, or in the "Mac OS X -- the missing manual"
book (good book!).
     paul