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hol·i·day /ˈhɒlɪˌdeɪ/
Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[hol-i-dey] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
2. any day of exemption from work (distinguished from working day).
3. a time or period of exemption from any requirement, duty, assessment, etc.: New businesses may be granted a one-year tax holiday.
4. a religious feast day; holy day, esp. any of several usually commemorative holy days observed in Judaism.
5. Sometimes, holidays. Chiefly British. a period of cessation from work or one of recreation; vacation.
6. an unintentional gap left on a plated, coated, or painted surface.
–adjective
7. of or pertaining to a festival; festive; joyous: a holiday mood.
8. suitable for a holiday: holiday attire.
–verb (used without object)
9. Chiefly British. to vacation: to holiday at the seaside.
[Origin: bef. 950; ME; OE hāligdæg. See holy, day]
—Synonyms 2. vacation, break.
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Xaero6139 wrote: exemption from work...
a period of cessation from work...
Ah. No wonder I don't understand the concept. 
/ravi
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Good point: what good is leave if you can't take it?
...usually gets paid out end of your last day of work, the very day before you start your new job at a new company  really should start taking better care of ourselves!!
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I needed a break after 13 years and the boss said you need to decide where you are going first. I dropped the subject, because I did not understand the concept. Six months latter I walk out the door and forgot to go back.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra
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Let the holiday be a true holiday.
Why take taptops and like stuffs?
Family is the best stuff for holiday;)
"Silence will create respect and dignity; justice and fair play will bring more friends;
benevolence and charity will enhance prestige and position; courtesy will draw benevolence;
service of mankind will secure leadership and good words will overcome powerful enemies"
Ali (Peace be upon him)
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A laptop complements a rich holiday. Particularly when you run out of camera space, you can transfer to laptop and then to an online storage space like Picasa.
Also for core bloggers, it enables to live blog thier travel experiences.
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I have an HD that can read several types of memory cards and you can upload mp3 to it.
Beats the laptop when travelling through the jungle with a backpack  .
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I generally have my laptop with me for photo storage and editing.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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Exactly. It is much more refreshing to leave all IT gadgets home. That way I will not try to do any work, answer a single email or care about what the stock market is doing.
John
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The best stuff for a holiday is subjective - for me it can be an opportunity to just play with writing software without constraints as opposed to the day job where I have specific objectives /and/ half a dozen staff to manage...
For that matter one of the things that one could do with the odd holiday from is the family (or more exactly the responsibilities that go with) and that (when the opportunity arises) is liable to involve significantly less technology...
Murph
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I would take with me a computer keyboard that can type code on sand.
0 errors: 0 warnings: 0 messsages
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Why coding, always :->
Having too much of something will be destructive 
"Silence will create respect and dignity; justice and fair play will bring more friends;
benevolence and charity will enhance prestige and position; courtesy will draw benevolence;
service of mankind will secure leadership and good words will overcome powerful enemies"
Ali (Peace be upon him)
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Nisamudheen wrote: Why coding, always
Because its not always - nowadays for me quite the reverse, not nearly enough (although there are compensations). And it does depend on the holiday (we do both the lap of luxury - a cruise next - and things rather more basic e.g. cycle camping...)
Murph
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I don't want to really work when I'm on holiday. But if I do bring my laptop...I tend to code something. Haha I guess its one of those bad habits.....
-b
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It's not like that..
Thinking in technical terms is the instinct some people have themselves..
it's not for the coding purporse but for self understanding of the processes going around.
It is not destructive, it's just a habit of seeing things like that..
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Holiday is a sigh of relief,
a better chance to come out of an hectic environment and
after which one can have a new look at the problems
with a definite advantage.
kinjalb wrote: Thinking in technical terms is the instinct some people have themselves..
Thats why
Nisamudheen wrote: Be technically OFF
"Silence will create respect and dignity; justice and fair play will bring more friends;
benevolence and charity will enhance prestige and position; courtesy will draw benevolence;
service of mankind will secure leadership and good words will overcome powerful enemies"
Ali (Peace be upon him)
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There's something that's not in the list... Ipod. I take my Ipod EVERYWHERE. 
Don't talk to me... Talk to my interface
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