phone related unrecovery/meetings

I’m (most of the times) proud owner of a drei 3G/UMTS Nokia N70 phone. Since my birthday (surely just kind of a present from drei) my network connectiviy has been very shakky, it seemed like UMTS networks worked fine while connectivity through GSM networks wasn’t possible anymore. This is a major PITA as most of drei’s coverage in carinthia is provided through A1′s GSM network. Thus my connectivity was down to the level of my prior provider (tele.ring), in other words: not existent.

A short chat with drei support staff brought light into this problem. There is a known problem with drei’s roaming through the A1 GSM network with this special mobile phone. It seems like a bug in A1′s access points sometimes classifies drei SIM-IDs as rouge users and thus banns that ID from its network. I got a new SIM card and am now waiting for its registration to complete. Hopefully I’ll be connected again soon.

This was the very long explanation for: “my phone’s connectivity was broken, sorry that I might have not get your calls or messages”.

In other news: I attended at a work related meeting through the last three days. It was very interesting, the goal and requirements for my part are a lot clearer now. Also the social event which happened after the meetings were ‘interesting’:

• Day 1 brought me to Maria Loretto. Very nice restaurant at the edge of the Woerther See. with very good food, but they definitely got a bug-related problem and the price is more that a bit on the expensive side. Travelling to Maria Loretto by car is a experience on its own. But this picture is shadowed by narratives that they do not treat their (summer) interns not too well.
• Day 2 was ended with a visitation of the excavation at Magdalensberg. “Leading the way” may not be my heraldic motto as it needed twice or thrice the time of the others to get there. It seems like I misunderstood the description of the starting point and through that I choose route with only two oder three direction signs (on a 10-15km long track) instead of the well-signed out normal route to the Magdalensberg. The excavation was interesting, but not that intoxicating. Dinner was consumed in the restaurant at the mountain’s top. They also serve very good food, ambience is very is nice and comforting. A thunder storm set in while we were eating so we had to stay at the restaurant for a bit. After electrical problems the rooms were lightened by candles which made the ambience even more pleasant. Hopefully our foreign guests do not conclude that this situation is normal for austria.

I’m feeling the urge to go back to sleep.

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