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Category: Swiss walks

  • Time Spent being Social

    Time Spent being Social

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWho do you spend the most time with? Before the pandemic, it would have been the climbing, hiking and diving friends. I would meet them every week, year round. it was a strong group of peopla and I liked to see them.  Adventure Groups It is with this group of people that…

  • Music Festivals, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sleep Deprivation

    Music Festivals, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sleep Deprivation

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFirst things First, I have had a lot of fun at festivals, and I have volunteered for a few. What I object to is the noise pollution. In the 21st century we could avoid that noise pollution, so we should. And now for the rant, now that I have told you I…

  • One Hundred and thirty Two Kilometres in Trail Gloves

    One Hundred and thirty Two Kilometres in Trail Gloves

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIn theory shoes are meant to last for eight hundred kilometres before they need to be replaced. I am now one eighth of the way towards needing to replace my Trail Gloves. In theory.  In practice the left shoe is worn and the tread is gone, in two spots. The toes, where…

  • Of Blogging and Substacking

    Of Blogging and Substacking

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesA month or two ago we had the chance to jump on the Substack wagon while it was hot and to ride the wave of new followers and experience a growing community. I could have joined in. I could have become one of those “I’m one of you people” but I didn’t. …

  • Application Programming Interfaces, Really Simple Syndication and the Open Protocols

    Application Programming Interfaces, Really Simple Syndication and the Open Protocols

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesTwitter and Reddit want to charge people to use their API despite already wanting people to pay them directly. Twitter decided to drive users away and make itself more expensive. As a result of this the website is imploding, rather than thriving.  Yesterday I read that Reddit, too, wanted to charge users…

  • The Solitaire Puzzle

    The Solitaire Puzzle

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I rediscovered my love of the game solitaire. It is the game we played on windows 3.1 and other windows operating systems, up to iOS and more. Solitaire is a simple game to play on a mobile phone, ipad or computer, whether laptop or desktop.  I have found that a game…

  • Playing with the Hugo With An Old Site

    Playing with the Hugo With An Old Site

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a few days I have been playing with Hugo with Markdown and HTML pages. It says that it is “the world’s fastest framework for building websites” and so far I do notice that it has a key strength that I like.  Front Matter That strength is that with small modifications you…

  • Twenty Seven Thousand Steps in BareFoot Shoes

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago I took twenty seven thousand steps in barefoot shoes. My feet did not suffer at all from walking that far in such shoes. I did some of that walking in the vapor gloves and the rest in the Trail Gloves. The beauty of barefoot walking is that you…

  • Hiking in the Jura in Minimal Shoes

    Hiking in the Jura in Minimal Shoes

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went for a short walk in the Jura with minimal shoes and I felt fine. The shoes, despite being thin soled, felt fine on the dry dirt paths. They do get wet when walking in dew covered grass but that’s what you would expect so that’s acceptable.  When you’re wearing…

  • Seventy Kilometres Later – Adapting to Barefoot Shoes

    Seventy Kilometres Later – Adapting to Barefoot Shoes

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI walk from three to fie million steps per year. In doing so I wear through shoes and through socks every six months or less. It makes sense that I would experiment with barefoot shoes since I spend so much time walking.  The Experience Initially I tried the Vapor Glove 6 and…