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  • Nice Clouds on a Windy Day

    Nice Clouds on a Windy Day

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes you drive home on the scooter and you look up at the sky and you think “When I get out of this village I’m going to stop by the side of the road and I’m going to take a picture of the clouds because they’re photogenic. The reason for them being…

  • The Slowness of Public Transport

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday someone something to the effect “If I go from here to there it will take me two and a half hours so it would require a car.” That’s what I have been saying for years. That’s one of the reasons for which having a sporty life, during the pandemic, is not…

  • 2020 – The Golden Opportunity to Be A Recluse

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    Reading Time: 4 minutes2020 – The Golden Opportunity to be a Recluse. If you’ve ever wanted a reason not to be social then open society’s behaviour, in regards to the COVID-19 virus, has provided us with a fantastic opportunity to enjoy being reclusive. During a normal Spring and Summer I would be driving to the…

  • The Pain of Optimism During a Pandemic

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesThe pain of optimism during a pandemic can clearly be felt by those who were optimistic enough to believe that self-sacrifice during the pandemic would result in a summer free of the COVID-19 Virus in Switzerland. We went from a moving average over seven days of one thousand one hundred and twelve…

  • De-Confinement, In Name Only.

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesUntil recently every time Switzerland moved from one phase to another the number of new cases per day increased slightly but with the latest phase the number of cases has increased by four or five times the number of new cases. From March until mid June we could go to the shops…

  • Hiking in Switzerland

    Hiking in Switzerland

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn 2019 Swiss people spent 162 million hours walking and hiking in Switzerland. Hiking generates 2.5 billion CHF per year and there are 50,000 signs to help people find their way. In Switzerland people hike 20 times per year. I go for a two to three hour walk/hike every single day…

  • Walking from Village to Village, and Village to Town

    Walking from Village to Village, and Village to Town

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThe conversation is too often about designing cities to be car-free, but I would argue that designing the countryside to require less frequently would be more advantageous. The reason for this is that walking from village to village, and from villages to towns eliminates the need for, and appeal of the car.…

  • FaceBook’s Primitive Content Management System

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFacebook’s Primitive Content Management System, because aside from being a social media platform, it is a CMS, makes it very hard to delete posts, images, and more in bulk. Facebook should be seen as a CMS because it allows us to share images, posts, events, and more. As a CMS we should…

  • How to Migrate from Instagram To WordPress

    How to Migrate from Instagram To WordPress

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently I migrated my photos from Instagram to a WordPress blog. The process took some trial and error. The first step is to understand how to read JSON files and format them in a way that WordPress can use. The next step is to import that data into WordPress. To request your…

  • Playing With Grasshopper

    Playing With Grasshopper

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteGrasshopper is a Google app to teach adults and children about Javascript. It provides people with short, easy to understand modules to get a grasshopper to do things. The curriculum is divided into seven modules. These are: Fundamentals Fundamentals II Intro to Interviewing Array Methods Animations Animations II Using a Code…