Category: Swiss walks
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The EV Pay Per Kilometre Tax
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the last two days I noticed several posts speaking about an upcoming tax for electric vehicles that will charge people per mile driven, as there is with petrol cars. In theory people will be charged a flat fee for the first year, and then per kilometre from then onwards. I…
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The Modern Village and EV Charging
Reading Time: 4 minutesA modern village is one that has parking on the outskirts, so that you can drive to it, park on the perimeter, and walk in, to hike, run, cycle or other. It also includes affordable slow chargers where you can park for as long as it takes to charge to full. Such…
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On Online and Offline Culture
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Guardian has an article about [Going Offline is Fun](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/19/going-offline-is-fun-living-offline-was-not-just-ask-a-child-of-the-90s). It’s about how “young” people are trying to disconnect from mobile phones and other technology. There was another article about how 61 million CDs have been sold as people buy physical media rather than digital copies. When the web and social networks…
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The Long Tail of the Heat Wave
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning it felt nice and cool so I spent as long as I could ventilating before the sun heated the Southern side of the building to a point where cooling was no longer effective. I went from 30°c down to 26°c very, very fast. The Outside Air Temperature (OAT) was 18-20°c…
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On Technological Literacy of Parents
Reading Time: 3 minutesYet again I see an article about children being banned from using mobile phones before they are thirteen years of age and once again I find myself asking, “but what if parents had the required digital literacy to help children and teens?” and “What if teachers had that digital literacy too?” Ireland…
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A Run and an EV Charge
Reading Time: 3 minutesHave you noticed how if an event is organised in the evening, long into the night, people see it as normal to participate. Have you also noticed how waking at the crack of dawn, to run, four towns away, is seen as lunatic, and crazy behaviour. We live in a society and…
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On Garmin and Coros
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s easy to fall into the trap of looking at expensive Garmin watches and thinking that maps are a premium feature, when, in fact they are not. Suunto and Coros offer them on affordable devices, should you require that feature for trail running, hiking, and more. If you want to use the…
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The Complete Death of Social Conversations on Social Networks
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf I look at Binstagram and Threads, and other Facebook owned sites I notice that conversations are completely dead. I was also looking at Twitter (now X) and I was also struck by how few conversations are taking place. I barely see any conversations. I see people posting, but I see little…
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The Summertime Failure of Minergie and the Case for AC
Reading Time: 4 minutesMinergie is a fantastic concept for a cold planet, and to keep cool in winter. It traps heat with ease during the morning and radiates it for the rest of the day into the night. It supplements to solar radiation heat with geothermal heat, which it gets from the heat pumps. That…
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The Never Ending Need to Choose
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Saturday I always have to choose between running or cycling, and for several weeks I favoured running. Recently I considered reverting to cycling because it has been a while since I went for a proper ride. At the same time the regular book discussion that is on a Tuesday was moved…