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Saturday routines or occasional returning rites that make it into my periscope include running a few errands and then having a coffee and smoke in a local café while reading the Saturday local and international press. I may be the only local politician who does not read the daily paper everyday, only on weekends, and [...]

Today during the Stadtrat’s dinner break from 19:00 to 20:30 a few of us met with a group of apprentices in the city’s administrative offices. The city offered sandwiches and mineral water and we sat around to a very interactive round of questions and answers.
A few of their questions:

Is it not a bit disrespectful that [...]

more photos from tensoriana
As almost all Swiss know by now my seat neighbour in the city parliament Christian Wasserfallen has been elected to the national parliament on the national elections of October 21. He has gotten a whole truck load of congratulatory notes, [...]

Achilles: You have been in the Matrix again, haven’t you?
Tortoise: You know me, I can’t live with it, and I can’t live without it. The Matrix is my generative, it makes me feel more human than my arthritic joints are capable of reminding me.
Achilles: But what I really want to know is if you have [...]

Of all literary genres, biography is not a favourite with me. I am overly cautious with the kinds of biographies that I read, and the thought of autobiographies written by self-proclaimed living legends is at best weird. With this bias, each time that I am asked to write something about my own biography, I [...]

Tokyo 528, originally uploaded by chrisjongkind.

Waiting for Godot

I want to go to a barCamp and end up in a blogCamp. I go to a blogger meeting and end up discussing BarCampSwitzerland, but what stole the show tonight was habi’s iPhone! That is not David (aka habi) on that pic, that is Chrigu who works with one of our local GSM service providers [...]

I am desperately missing my two friends Achilles and Tortoise! I have not had much of a chance to spend some time with these two since the time at the beach.
I had a bit of a compensation in that Remo, Marc and I met around a bottle of Italian red in their kitchen [...]