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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 [...]

From my last posts you might have the impression that I am spending a lot of time in restaurants. Well today was no exception and I had a working lunch with my colleagues at a local “Oriental” restaurant La Palmeraie which is not far from my office. We had the “plat du jour” which conveniently [...]

As you can see from the photo above - a wonderful photo that my wife took this afternoon - winter has finally arrived. We had more than 15cm of snow overnight and traffic was chaos. It took twice as long to get to work and even longer to come home this evening.
Bad news in the [...]

Before coming to Switzerland I lived and worked in Edinburgh (with a year in Glasgow) and hold fond memories. I would happily return to Scotland if it were possible. Even the climate wouldn’t hold me back
I check the BBC News web pages daily and more often than not keep up to date with [...]

Having some extra time off each week has unexpected benefits. Last Sunday my wife and I went to the lake to take some photos and today the weather was so sunny and mild that we went on another walk on the riverbank near to where we live.
I’ll be posting the pics a little later but [...]

Resisting the urge to tell you how excited I am about my new 3 column template (I’ve promised myself to avoid those sorts of posts), here is a photo I took last Sunday while on the Neptune Rock’s photo shoot.
I’ve just uploaded the others of the set but I rather like this one as it [...]

Sounds like a flashback to a Mark Knopfler soundtrack (which I like by the way) but in reality it’s a heads up to some local news.
On the first of January a Geneva resident jumped into the murky waters of the Rhone, here in Geneva, and saved a woman that was trying to commit suicide. His [...]

I have blogged in the past about journalism and journalists. My main point was that “News” only happens if there is a reporter to report it. This leads to news being concentrated according to where there is a large concentration of journalists. This is why we have had strong and prolonged focus of news as [...]

Since the end of the Ice Age, two erratic blocks of stone nicknamed Neiton and Neptune, emerge from the water close to the Jardin Anglais (English Garden).
To the right is a photo of the smaller of the two rocks that I took earlier today by a rather grey but clement January afternoon (the temperature was around [...]

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