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I am a media asset manager, camera operator and more. I hike, cycle and climb in my free time. During the COVID-19 pandemic I am blogging on a daily basis to keep a record for future generations.

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  • Staring at phones in the rain once again…

    Reading Time: 2 minutesOnce again I was out in the rain walking around a city. Once again I was looking downwards and then up. I was also looking around and navigating through a city I have been to before but only for a meal and on my way to another place. I went there for…

  • The Trouble With Thankless Jobs

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn interesting talk about thankless jobs and how to make them more rewarding.

  • Modern Life Is A Western

    Reading Time: 2 minutesA few afternoons ago I tuned in to a Western on Television and I thought about how similar our modern lives have become to Westerns. Either we’re the ones travelling all the time meeting new people and then leaving them behind or we’re the ones staying in place while everyone around moves.…

  • Tourism and Ingress

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re a geek and you like mobile phones with a data plan then ingress is for you. Over the last two days I walked 18 kilometres playing ingress and winning back the City of Nyon for the Resistance. It didn’t last long. The same evening the enlightened players destroyed my hard…

  • Rome’s Lost Empire

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDocumentaries have been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember. This year I started with the Documentary Rome’s Lost Empire narrated by Dan Snow. With Sarah, an associate professor they travel from Rome to Transylvania, to Petra and to Tunisia to uncover the Roman Frontier. Using a…

  • An Open letter of complaint to Netflix Switzerland.

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDear deceptive content distributors, When I have wanted to watch a number of documentaries the subtitles have been in German on english commentary documentaries. As a paying customer I expect English language versions to have English titles, English subtitles and English location information. If you do nothing to resolve this problem…

  • Thoughts on Journalism deaths and those affected by conflicts and war.

    Reading Time: 2 minutes“The implications of these numbers can be put in another way: good journalism is not just the responsibility of the journalistic community; it is a global effort that must be bolstered by individual governments’ commitment to protecting the freedom of the press, and fought for in the face of authoritarian entities. It…

  • Lebara Spain

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you visit Spain and get a lebara Spain sim you need to set up two access point names. One is for internet access and the other is for MMS. I only point this out because dozens of sites tell you what the configuration requirements are but non indicate that you…

  • CERN gears up to cool LHC down

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  • What the World Searched for in 2014.

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNot the most inspired year in search.