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 trial and ditch this thing.

So, instead of updating my blog, I am updating Windows Vista (22 updates to download!), iTunes, Norton Anti-virus, etc. Also, given how spotty the connection is, I don't really have the energy to type up a long post. I promise I will write something tomorrow, or at the very least, I have a "rejectd" blog entry that I wrote a long time ago and have been saving for truly desperate times. I don't think we're there yet.