waider on tour

This past few days:
- Feb 1: Dublin, then (briefly) Zurich, then Biel
- Feb 2: Biel, then Geissbach (or maybe it was Giessbach, or maybe some other spelling)
- Feb 3: Geissbach, then Biel again
- Feb 4: Biel, then Zurich (including an accidental visit to, quite literally, the wrong side of the tracks)
- Feb 5: Zurich, then Dublin

Congrats to JC and Anita!

Switzerland: technology fails me

- laptop decided it didn't like the local power source (or something) and refused to either power up on mains or recharge itself. It's fine now, although I suspect the battery may be roached.
- phone and digicam ran out of power, the latter at an inopportune moment leaving me to take a bunch of photos on the former. The former only ran out of power when one of my travelling companions borrowed my "Irish plug to freakish foreign power socket" adapter overnight on the one night when I actually needed a recharge; fortunately, the phone spent an hour and a half beeping plaintively in lieu of actually shutting down and ran out of power right as I was boarding the flight home.
- Vodafone's picture album service appears to be broken again, meaning my cheapskate Flickr gateway isn't working right now.
- the phone's email client choked on one particular message, by which I mean the entire phone OS appeared to reboot. This was repeatable, too. I can't see anything wrong with the message now that I can look at it in a real client, so I can only assume shoddy coding in the client itself.