Archive for the 'Switzerland' Category
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 [...]
One idea that I heard for the first time last Saturday at BlogCampSwitzerland in Zurich was Facts 2.0. It seems to me to be an interesting experiment in interfacing traditional media to new media. Over the next few months I will be trying to satisfy my curiosity over the workings and usefulness of this site. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The session of our city’s parliament on September 6 has left me perplexed, amused, and wondering in what kind of rabbit hole I have fallen into.
Today had lunch with Philippe Müller to discuss the possibility of actively becoming a member of Berne’s city parliament. For the habitual readers of this blog who are not familiar with my involvement in politics, this may come as a surprise. Me and politics is a troubled relationship. I just have always wondered what role [...]
March 21 to May 28 2007
I was told about this exhibit by Joan Schenkar now in the midst of giving her biography of Patricia Highsmith its last buffing. I am interested in it from the perspective of looking at a writer’s life and her work. I always wonder why is it that some of us [...]
