Posts Tagged ‘local’

 The main story of these past few days is that following on from a surprising popular vote just over a week ago, our local government - who is also my employer - has passed a law banning smoking in the vast majority of public spaces from the 1st of July this year.
I don’t think I mentioned [...]

I was watching Climb to the Stars for news of Going Solo (An upcoming one day event in Lausanne) and noticed that Going Solo now has badges. So I added one.
This is particularly pertinent as my own business will be launching before the end of this week. Details will follow.
I can’t say, however, that I am going solo more [...]

J’ai découvert “The Bliss” en 2001 et j’ai passé une excellente soirée dans une salle à Carouge à les écouter live. Leur premier disque fait parti des disques dans ma collection, signés par les artistes. Plutôt qu’un longue discours vous pouvez écouter un morceau de leur dernier disque et écouter davantage sur leur site.
I came [...]

Isn’t it a little paradoxical that my last post was about an absent friend when I was being a little absent myself?
It’s a little cyclical with me. I’ve been blogging for over three years and it’s become an online presence that I won’t give up. I’ve never really found my own style though and have [...]

I am following the debate on surveillance cameras in the press. I remember a while back that the French are testing cameras that detect road traffic offenses but haven’t gone as far as their English counterparts who also detect Insurance and licensing fraud.
What puts the system well apart from other surveillance systems is the software [...]

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 - [...]

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 [...]

I was up early this morning, as usual for a working day. As I have already mentioned, this winter has been very mild and now, at the end of February, I am allowing myself a certain optimism and looking forward to Spring.
Around about this time of year the days start to get visibly longer [...]

I’ve mentioned it before. We have to vote many times each year on various topics and the next voting day is next month. There are three subjects. The first is for or against establishing a State run Health Insurance system (For years there have been a multitude of competing Health Insurance companies). I might [...]

Remember we had some snow a while ago? Well I said at the time that two of our trees had really suffered. Well I took my courage in both hands yesterday and sawed off the damaged branches. The damage was worse than I had thought. In addition the trunks were thicker and the sawed off [...]