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Dissertation Results

Jun 28, 2007

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in Holidays, Post-university life, tech related, university

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday is a great day for a number of reasons. The first of these is that I woke up early, which means I slept enough. The second of these is that I dropped into university and was sad to see all those empty bedrooms, which shows there are some good memories…

The Summer of Barbecues

Jun 23, 2007

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richard

in Holidays, Post-university life, summer holidays

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt would seem that this will be the summer of barbecues because of the amount of meat leftover from last night. With a friend, we went over to France and bought four kilos of meat, a nice little quantity. Too much for two friends to eat in one sitting but that’s…

Podcast listening and more

Jun 20, 2007

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richard

in Holidays, Post-university life, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesSince I finished my dissertation my biggest time sink has been listening to podcasts. For some reason, I download the entire series of podcasts and work through them one at a time until there are no more. It’s a way of relaxing. It’s also a way of getting information quite easily. In…

Sharing Videos With Facebook

Jun 18, 2007

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richard

in Holidays, Post-university life, summer holidays, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesThrough technology such as that available on Facebook, video sharing has become quite a bit easier. Whereas on a website like youtube where you share video footage with the world on Facebook you select who you share your videos with. There are three settings, share with everyone on your network, including all…

Slightly Ahead Of Their Comfort Zone

Jun 16, 2007

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richard

in Holidays, Post-university life, summer holidays, tech related, work

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went to film some friends playing a gig by the lakeside in Nyon and it was a great occasion. The sun was shining, the air temperature was good and many people that I had not seen in many years were present. The shoot involved two cameras. One was at the…

Disorganised Contrasting of Two Ways of Life.

Jun 12, 2007

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richard

in travel

Reading Time: 4 minutesThere is such a large contrast between life in London and the village where I grew up in Switzerland. In one place you can walk for kilometers before getting to the shops whilst in the other going down the street is enough. In one place there is a 24hr a day life…

I like Joost and I like the Wii

Jun 8, 2007

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richard

in Holidays, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesTonight was a tech-filled night. I finally had the possibility of downloading and testing out Joost and I enjoyed the experience. Joost Joost is a peer to peer video sharing website that is based on the concept of channels but unlike other channels, each video is available on demand. What this means…

It’s Vacation Time

Jun 4, 2007

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richard

in Holidays, Post-university life, travel

Reading Time: < 1 minuteit’s vacation time are words that were uttered at the end of a long night in crete back in 2000. They were uttered by an older guy who was with a group of us as we watched the sun rise. Those words always stuck in my mind. On Wednesday I’m flying…

It’s All Over – Mission Accomplished

Jun 2, 2007

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richard

in Holidays, Post-university life, university

Reading Time: < 1 minuteChecking through my pockets this morning I found that £30 are still there in cash. That’s quite surprising when you take into account that last night’s mission was to drink the bar dry. Obviously I did not contribute to this as greatly as was initially anticipated. It was another night of…

And That’s When Flames Caressed My Leg

May 25, 2007

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richard

in Holidays, Post-university life, university

Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night after visiting my new flat and getting to know one of the people that live there I came back to the bar in Halls to chat with friends but that didn’t last long as there was a lack of atmosphere. Everyone migrated to the field and that’s when it’d become…

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