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It turns out that the last few weeks have gone over me while I seem to have been in an altered state of conscientiousness. Trouble is is that I am not quite sure on which side of that consciousness I have been, I have whined and moaned and pestered many around me about the details [...]

While Theoretical Man and Public Man debate each other within the intimacy of an hard-drive, I keep on hacking language. This month I took an unusual family break and jetted down to where my folks live. I had long conversations with nine persons, all of whom I have known for at least twenty years, and [...]

IMGP4617, originally uploaded by Dannie Jost.
Once more I have not sent greeting cards, this is my tradition: no cards. This afternoon Harald and I went for a sledding run to Grindelwald. We started from Berne after 12 noon, and were back down in Grindelwald after 6 PM. In between we took a two [...]

In the last week or so in several of the off-line conversations that I have engaged in we have touched on the subject of life and death, how men start wars, and what is important in life. During this time an Aikido colleague had a serious road accident and is now in hospital in intensive [...]

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 [...]

Really! This sore throat is turning into a fully disagreeable cold, I am going through Kleenex like a champion, and I feel miserable. This is however the kind of misery that I can live with. I have not been home much lately and the place displays all the signs that a vagabond lives here! [...]

DSC01101, originally uploaded by Dannie Jost.

Really… there is not much that I can say now, other than repeat what I wrote to a friend a couple of hours ago.
“had a most fascinating time in Portugal, nothing like on other times… i feel the batteries recharged… walked a lot, slept a lot, ate a lot… was [...]

Friday August 31, 2007
One of my best friends gets these horrible debilitating migraines on a very regular basis which she endures rather bravely. Today I felt that I must have borrowed her head, I simply woke up in a deplorable state of having a nagging headache, and I will not take medication unless I am [...]

Yesterday before taking off from Locarno and its festival, I got a chance to view the screening of Freigsprochen.
Funny! This ain’t a funny film. Afterwards my friend and I mused on the wisdom of having a 10 year old watch such a film, and we agreed that even fiction reality is a good vehicle to [...]

Last night something strange happened after I spent an hour on the phone with Marc and we ditched the idea of going to the open air cinema.
Alternate title: Jealousy and Patience
Subtitle: Corn-mush, fresh goat cheese, basil and Mirabelle plums smothered in olive oil
Marc had spend the precious past night not sleeping and reading the newspaper [...]

You may find all the fables by Jean de la Fontaine by following the link below. Here one that was mentioned to me recently.
LE RAT DE VILLE ET LE RAT DES CHAMPS

Autrefois le rat de ville
Invita le rat des champs,
D’une façon fort civile
A des reliefs d’ortolans.
Sur un tapis de Turquie
Le couvert se trouva mis.
Je laisse [...]

Teo and Larry, originally uploaded by Joi.

Two bloggers that I read more or less regularly are Larry Lessig and Joi Ito.