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Its a drag buying a laptop which is obsolete in X years and whose hardware is impossible to upgrade.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 […]