Category: Switzerland
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Another Walk By The Mediterranean.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne treat of being in Spain is that some people do wear masks when walking outdoors. You are normal for wearing a mask. In Switzerland you are looked at as if you are eccentric or absurd. It is nice not to be looked at as a curiousity. It is nice to…
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A Walk By The Mediterranean.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHave you walked by the Mediterranean recently? I walked by it today. It was blue and Green, turquoise and red. The sea was calm and a sailing boat or two set off to sail from one place to another.
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Spain During A Pandemic
Reading Time: < 1 minutePeople wear masks as they walk and do waiters. This is nice. It’s nice to see people wearing masks during a pandemic. It’s nice not to feel like an outlier. It’s nice not to feel eccentric for mask wearing. I went for my first swim in at least two years. I…
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Twelve Hours Of Focus
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I drove for twelve hours with hardly any breaks and finished two books. Twilight of Democracy and Almost Human. These were good books to read during a drive because they are both entertaining and informative. They are also well read. I think my day of rest yesterday helped too. 12…
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A Queue of Tractors Without Drivers
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I saw a queue of tractors without drivers. Tractors with trailers full of beat were parked by the on loading dock at the railway siding. There is a machine. The tractors come up to the machine, back, and then start to pour the sugar beet into it. The machine then transports…
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Thoughts On Long Drives
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe most I drove was 3600 kilometres in four days. I went to Western France, Barcelona, back to Western France, and then back to Switzerland. It was an average of 800 kilometres a day. About two or three hours from home I was so tired of driving that I stopped at an…
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Tap Water, Hollow Fibres disagree with Calcar and a Barrel According to WaterMinder
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday the Service Industriel de Nyon, SI Nyon, sent an e-mail saying that tap water is one thousand times more environmentally friendly than bottled water. Bottled water is sold at between 20 to 90 centimes per litre and tap water is sold at about 0.1 centimes per litre. It is 200 to…
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JSON-LD and a Walk
Reading Time: 2 minutesA conventional tech blogger would usually just write about JSON-LD and completely ignore the fact that they went on a walk. I like to combine the two. JSON-LD, short for JSON Linked Document is an agreement for certain data fields to be used for specific purposes. The idea is to standardise terms…
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A Happy Pan – When Oil Smiled
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I had a happy pan, when the oil smiled at me. I didn’t intend for it to become a smiley face. I poured in the oil as I always do before cooking. That’s when my imagination thought it saw something. Yep, a face. I was amused enough, and I thought that…
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Yet Another Sunny Day
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I looked at two of the masks I used over summer and they are both bleached by the sun. So is my hat. I normally expect things in Spain to be sun bleached, not Switzerland. The reason is simple. First, it never ever rains, and even clouds are rare today, and…