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So a Wiffle is nothing that we use in this corner of the woods! Around here nobody plays Wiffle ball, but we European are fond of other games. The Irish are a lot all of their own and some of my good friends originated in Ireland, but what puzzles me is that none of them [...]

These days my political activity has been in the background, or rather, I have been exercising the art of the invisible. Politics is an art. One of the more startling discoveries that I have made is that the most action does happen behind the scenes and within the political household that “the party” is.
Recently I [...]

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 [...]

The last time that I could not sleep because I did not want to sleep without writing down a few thoughts occurred a few months ago. At that time what was on my mind was very private and intimate, and then I wrote what there was to write, purged the buffer of my mind, 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, [...]

Actually having a ball with politics!
Just a few days ago I tried pitying a friend of mine for the fact that he works like a horse, and he retorted something that implied that he needed no pity as he was having all sorts of fun. For him work is fun. Yesterday somebody asked me how [...]

Es war für mich einer besonderen Wahrnehmung des Sondergleiches Kenntnis zunehmen von der Ereignisse des 6. Oktober in Bern die mir an der Küste der Atlantik, via Paris und ein Amerikanischen Schriftsteller erreichten: Gewalt auf die Strassen von Bern zwei Wochen vor die Wahlen!
Es wäre vorteilhaft für dieser Stadt und dieses Land wenn wir heute [...]

Thanks to a friendly email from Sarah I got a reminder that BarCamp Zurich is coming up on Saturday. I will have to disappoint the local firemen and not show up to something that would greatly honour them with my presence (cough… cough… yikes! who thinks up these wonderful form letter invitation formulations?) and head [...]

Today I got from the post office the mail that was held back while I was away and in it there was one of these remarkable spam letters that politicians get by the ton. To begin with it is a very non-green activity to waste so much paper to send mail to people who may [...]

Very recently I found myself in a reboot 8.0 t-shirt, oversized guerilla trousers and a ghutra over my shoulders shaking the hands of a few ministers in ties and suits. In the age of instant communication, physical logistics still fail and so it was that I arrived at the destination on time but my luggage [...]

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 [...]