Posts from ‘March, 2007’

It’s been a very busy week. TGIF!
Professionally the move means me splitting my time between two offices and some overtime to compensate. All my professional activities are in flux and I will have to adhere to new objectives.
I have been asked to step up as National IT Director of an Association that I am [...]

From memory, Swiss chocolate Easter Eggs are differently packaged from those available in the UK although with globalisation this might well have changed a lot since I left! I did promise to show some pics and here is some photographic evidence of what we are finding in the shops now.

Judge for yourself! Unfortunately I can only link to an article in french. The “sculpture” is called Lieux mécanisés (Mechanical places) and is a somewhat large exposition in our local Shopping Mall (Balexert).
By the way, it is in constant movement and is somewhat reminiscent of the works of Tinguely although less excentric.

The [...]

Title says it all really. In a recent comment Michelle was wondering what it looked like and you know me, I can’t resist a request or an idea for a post.
My office is on the 9th floor so the view is agreable (if a little Mary Poppinish if you see what I mean - [...]

Self explanatory really. I’ve wanted one for quite a while and things fell into place the other day. I’m very happy with it!
Actually it’s my second Mac as I had a second hand Mac many years ago and even paid serious money to upgrade the memory to 1Mb … I then bought an [...]

As I mentioned the other day I’ve moved offices and now everything is unpacked. It all went very smoothly and the only things left to do urgently are to get me a phone so people can phone me and to redirect printing to my new office.
Through the wonders of modern networking if I send something [...]

Here in Switzerland some things (a lot actually) are legally binding. There a lots of laws, rules and obligations and when you own a house (well the bank does but that’s another matter) there a whole load of things that you have to do and each and every one of them leads you to dip [...]

It’s been a bit of a whirlwind week this week. I was out Wednesday and Thursday evening and my brother and sister-in-law are coming for a meal this evening. My days have been busy at work too as I have to pack ready for the move next Wednesday and have been testing software intensively all [...]

I think I mentioned it a while back but I’ve been reorganized and from an Organizational and Quality role I am integrating a Systems Information division and while pursuing my explorations in ECM/CMS Wiki and EDM will be providing more support for our Intranet and Extranet.
In a meeting today my new boss informed me that [...]

After a fresh start (5°C) to the day the temperature rose to 16 in the shade today and we couldn’t resist taking our dinner out on the terrace. I don’t think we will take the chairs out of the garden shed just yet but it was all the same a blissful moment and a reminder [...]