When one of the musicians in the band I play in complained of the drummer being loud, he started playing with drum-rods, which are described here.
In Germany and in Switzerland, drum-rods are expensive. The ones we found locally cost 23 Euros.
The drummer decided long ago to spare himself from paying that ridiculously marked up [...]

For the first half of this week I was in Friedrichshafen, Germany with my boss at a seminar.  We brought our digital projector (”beamer”) in order to go through some slides with our colleagues.  However, Swiss and German power outlets are different:

Swiss Power Outlet

German (European) Power outlet.
Unfortunately we forgot to bring a power adaptor.  My boss, [...]

I’ve been moving apartment for the past few weeks, packing, repacking, jettisoning kit, repeat. Ikea furniture is quite terrible for non-drivers, its heavy, often one-time use, and in switzerland its difficult to get rid of.
Swiss apartments often have built in cabinetry and closets with shelves in the walls.  This makes purchasing bookshelves and clothing closets [...]

Its a drag buying a laptop which is obsolete in X years and whose hardware is impossible to upgrade. 
A step in-between a laptop and a desktop is to buy a small desktop, a flat-screen and the typical external components (along with the indispensible external harddrive), and pack into a suitcase.  The only thing potentially ‘missing’ is a battery [...]