Well, I'm here in Prague. I have 3 hours of battery life.
My universal travel adapter works fine with the weird Czech plugs.
My PC has a grounded 3 prong plug. The adapter only has sockets for
an ungrounded (2 prong) plug. Ooops.

Moral: check things out/learn by DOING before you leave.

Time to call the hotel concearge/plug in at the IETF terminal room.

Also, Konqueror blocks popups by default. blogger.com wants to use them.
Enable in settings->configure conqueror->java and javascript->javascript->open new windows->ASK.