May 2015 – Richard's blog

Le Sentier des Toblerones

May 27, 2015

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteLe Sentier des Toblerones Toblerones Walk from Mainvision on Vimeo. Hidden among the trees in the Canton de Vaud you can find concrete blocks put there as a defensive line to slow down invading armies. The concrete blocks have a similar shape to chocolate Toblerones. There is a hiking trailÂ that you…

Tour D’AÃ¯ Via Ferrata

May 15, 2015

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richard

in Switzerland, Via Ferrata

Reading Time: 2 minutesNice View of the Alps from the Tour D’AÃ¯ Tour D’AÃ¯Â via ferrata is a nice option if you are looking for aÂ view of the Alps and of the Lac LÃ©man region. You can take the telecabine from Leysin to the top and from here walk one hour and get to the base…

Mountain biking down a via ferrata

May 7, 2015

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richard

in Uncategorized

Reading Time: < 1 minuteVIA FERRATA from Summitride on Vimeo. Of course riding a mountain bike down a via ferrata is impossible. What is possible is riding the bike at the start and end of a via ferrata. In this video we see an individual ride down some routes where we would not feel at…

TomTom Go and the diminishing cost of live traffic data when driving

May 5, 2015

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richard

in mobile, reviews, traffic

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday with Tomtom Go you pay 20CHF per year for the maps and traffic information. When I first bought the TomTom Europe apps for iOS and Android they cost about 170CHF an operating system.Â If my memory serves me well traffic information would cost an additional 100 CHF per year. As a…

Amersports and Sports tracker

May 5, 2015

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richard

in N95, Scuba Diving, Swiss walks, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday Amer Sports announced that it has bought Sports tracker. Sports Tracker is an application that I have been using since I had the Nokia N95 8GB. I used it on symbian, iOS and Android devices over the years. What I love about this app is the way it displays information about…

Video piracy in the 21st century

May 4, 2015

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richard

in mobile streaming, social media, social networking, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago I was watching a Magnum PI episode where Higgins had a film camera pointed at the television screen to record a game of snooker broadcast from “half way around the world” by satellite. Â Today I noticed this articleÂ speaking of the way in which twitter’s Periscope app and Meerkat…

Social media, breaking news and information overload.

May 4, 2015

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richard

in social media

Reading Time: 2 minutesSocial media is really fast because there are so many participants. It’s also fast because one person telling a few others is simplified. The social media are a crowd and when one person says something then others repeat what they have just heard to find out what has happened. Within a few…

is twitter changing your blogging habits? – A 2008 response

May 4, 2015

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richard

in social media, social media living room, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteYes and no. Twitter is replacing instant messaging and chatrooms. Itâ€™s an open method by which for people to communicate instantly with others. Itâ€™s also about the overheard conversation although that term has disappeared. What does â€œoverheardâ€ mean? Well simply that whenever two people discuss a topic hundreds of people are…

Ingress Operation Apache, Covering Geneva in Blue.

May 3, 2015

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richard

in ingress, Switzerland, team work, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesOperation Apache Ingress is a selfless game when you play as a team. The driver gets no AP. Other operators get a few AP for breaking portals. Three individuals gets hundreds of thousands of Mind Units (MU). Rather than feel a sense of achievement I feel fatigue. The first reason is to…

Social conversations and the social media

May 1, 2015

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richard

in lifestream, mobile, mobile streaming, observation, social media, social media living room, tech related, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you read “How to Win Friends and Influence People” you see how important it is to take notice of other people, to be positive and to be interested in what they are doing. That can be a challenge for everyone. We all have different priorities so putting other people first is…

Month: May 2015