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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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  • Ingress First Saturday

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSaturday I went to Lausanne to play Ingress with over 100 individuals. The purpose of this meetup was to level up lower level players. I would have preferred a more strategic game as we were so many players. I need to find people who want to play strategically. Ingress is a virtual…

  • Threaded conversations and community

    Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom the 1970s to 2007 we had threaded conversations through bulletin boards, forums, groups and other centralising discussion points. For a brief window of about two years conversations became so captivating that people wanted to meet in person as strong friendships were established. By 2009-2010 the threaded and personal conversations between web…

  • Playing Ingress

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA virtual game you play in the real world. People will meet in Lausanne on this Saturday to play.

  • The Joy Comes In The Pursuit

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe joy comes in the pursuit

  • Ingress on Saturday in Lausanne from 1000 onwards.

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA taste

  • Pico Iyer: The art of stillness

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe need to take time to think. We need to avoid external stimuli and spend time with our thoughts. We desire to move and to achieve which drives the economy forward at the cost of forgetting to give ourselves times. The talk explores time and space. It also explores the popular…

  • How I built a nuclear reactor at the age of 13 | Jamie Edwards | TEDxCERN

    Reading Time: < 1 minute  A charismatic fourteen year old speaks about how he did some research, got some money approved and then ordered and built a nuclear fusion reactor in a classroom

  • Performance — the LHC remix | Tim Exile | TEDxCERN

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTaking sound samples from around CERN a flow machine was used to make music. It sounds like music you’d expect to hear at L’Usine in Geneva. It is interesting to see how the audience get up and start to dance.

  • On Film and Television

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI like that I can watch days of television series and that I can’t spend 90 minutes watching films. Television series are about people, places and situations and the characters are realistic. In contrast films are superficial, shallow and too full of special effects for a story to be told. The…

  • 10 Billion People for Dinner

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHaving ten billion people to feed will have consequences.