Net access here (Prague) is really slow, seems to be slowest in establishing new connections (and then decent once connection is established), but I don’t have enough networking-fu to figure out why (maybe DNS is slow or something). Also, Google keeps trying to fake me out, sending me to localized versions of their pages, which [...]
It turns out that in places like the Czech Republic, they actually use all the crazy accented characters that Americans are used to ignoring. You know, like “č”, “ů”, “ř”, etc. Anyhow, I finally got annoyed that I was just seeing “?” instead of “ö” (or whatever) and fixed the problem. First: $ xterm -u8 [...]
.!. .!. Everyone travels with an iPod, right? Right. How do you charge it? An iPod can only be charged via the stupid dock connector, which means you have to bring an extra cable of some sort. Most people I’ve seen have the normal cable with an iPod connection on one end, and a USB [...]