But mostly it’s really, really boring.

At first it sounds cool. Go to new cities. Visit other places. Hang out in hotel bars. No, wait, that’s not so cool. I mean, it gets the job done, sort of, I guess, but it gets expensive. But you’ve got the hotel broadband, what if you just want to play some video games?

Ahhh, but there in lies the rub. What company really wants you to have video games on your corporate laptop?

(The answer is “cool ones” but, odds are, you don’t work for a “cool one”. Sorry.)

Penalties typically range anywhere from getting yelled at, to having them automatically deleted off your machine when you next log in to the corporate intranet, to, well, you know. Being fired. Yikes.

But – oh man! You’re in training from 9 to 5, after hitting the hotel gym, going to dinner…you’ve still got hours and hours to kill. And only so much pay per view that you can stand (or afford) to watch.

So how to play the video games without resorting to that old N64 hooked up to the TV?

The answer is…MojoPac!

(Should there be cool music here?)

So here’s the deal. You install MojoPac on your USB hard drive. You can do it on just about any kind – I think the one they sent me was on a “Vantec” drive, and I saw at least one write up talking about doing it on an iPod.

Basically, it sets up a Windows style environment on the USB drive, you can copy files over if you want – whenever I stuck it in my brother’s machine it automatically updated with his profile information onto it – and use it, well, like a USB drive. But wait, there’s more.

You can also install software to the USB drive. Yes, if you want to play World of Warcraft all night with your guild buddies while you’re stuck in a hotel in Hoboken, wherever, you can just install it on the MojoPac USB drive, hook it into your corporate machine, and play it from there.

(A quick note: some of you out there will be thinking “hey, why not bring your own personal laptop with you when you travel?” If you’re thinking that, you don’t travel on business enough, or your willing to let your business and personal uses on a single machine overlap to a perhaps uncomfortable degree. Just saying.)

Of course, this isn’t restricted just to video games. You can install other software on there, such as (say) Firefox, and use it to surf websites that you don’t want showing up in the corporate version of IE’s history (or on the computer’s hard drive at all). A law firm is talking about using it to deploy software to attorneys, for instance. Or you can also just throw your videos and MP3 files on there to jam with.

There’s really only one big problem that I saw – the speed of the USB drive. If you’re going to be using this, you’re going to want the fastest USB drive you can find. And that can be a bit expensive.

But if you want a way to game on the road – or even on a friend’s machine – without having to go through the Carl Sagan-esque “billions and billions” of hours installing software over and over again, and risking copyright violations, then using MojoPac may be right for you.