Johnny Five is Alive!
I swear that I was going to write a nice, long post tonight (it was going to be about how awesome America is. USA! USA!), but I am afraid it'll have to wait until tomorrow. Tonight, I finally got internet access set up at my apartment. Hooray! Of course, this being Switzerland and all, there are caveats. Slow? You bet. Unreliable? Completely. Annoying? Off the charts. I am using a "Flybox" modem from Orange Mobile, which connects to the UMTS/HSDPA cellular network and then transmits a WIFI signal to my laptop. In theory, it's capable of pretty decent download and upload speeds, and the price is reasonable as well. In practice, it's a piece of junk that can't download even a single webpage without timing-out. I'm hoping that the ridiculously patchy service I'm getting right now is due to me only having partial access to the network or something similarly lame, because otherwise I think I'll have to take advantage of the 14-day free tria...