Zurück nach Zürich

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Here is a lit­tle song for all those peo­ple feel­ing home­sick for Zurich:

Alright, I con­fess: I love this city, even if I was nei­ther born nor grown up there. But I live here for almost 10 years and still think Zurich is just great.

And, yes, I stole this video from Zürich Touris­mus

Zurück aus den Ferien

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[simage=285,160,n,right]Since yes­ter­day, I am back from a great vaca­tion. The two weeks in Cor­fou have been mar­vel­lous, even if the weath­er did­n’t always play along.

Well, we’ve been vis­it­ing friends who emi­grat­ed to Cor­fou a few years ago and who built a house there on their own piece of land. This time, we decid­ed take the trip with the fer­ry from Venice, instead of using a plane and ret­ing a car on the island. We want­ed to save on the rental fees.

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Elektronischer Bilderrahmen — kleiner Testbericht

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I recent­ly dealt with an elec­tron­ic pho­to frame. The rea­son is that I gave one to my wife for her birth­day. This is an unof­fi­cial review about a device that I bought and which, there­fore, I want to report about.

Fotograph of the electronic photo frameThe first ques­tion is how you choose one to begin with. If you look for pho­to frames on the inter­net, you will find dozens of them. My buy­ing deci­sion is about two months back. And I did­n’t have pre­cise selec­tion cri­te­ria. I guess I chose using price and (adver­tised) func­tion­al­i­ty. I final­ly bought a Dig­i­tal Pho­to Frame DPF080 by Sap­phire, and I bought it from Brack. Brack is a decent com­put­er shop, who deliv­ered com­put­er equip­ment a few times in the past depend­ably, and which so far did­n’t give me any trou­ble with billing.

The pho­to frame was deliv­ered to my home prompt­ly after a few days. Nat­u­ral­ly, I unwrapped it imme­di­ate­ly and hooked it up right away. Which was­n’t very dif­fi­cult — no need to open the man­u­al so far.

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Anleitung für das Häxehüsli

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[simage=104,160,n,right]My friends and rel­a­tives know that (togeth­er with Kurt and Giuseppe) I am hav­ing free access to a lit­tle house up in the moun­tains of Graubun­den. They also know that I glad­ly offer the house for hol­i­day use.

Alas, there are a few things to observe, which are more or less impor­tant, par­tic­u­lar­ly if some­one is there for the first time with­out my company.

There­fore, I just described the most impor­tant facts about that house and its infra­struc­ture on a sep­a­rate page, although it has­n’t been trans­lat­ed yet. Ask me for it if you need it.

Mein Typ — (VR) Verlässlicher Realist

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I did this per­son­al­i­ty test on iPer­son­ic’s web­site, also offered by Face­book. Here is the result: I seem to be a Reli­able Real­ist. This means:

Reli­able Real­ists are down-to-earth and respon­si­ble-mind­ed. They are pre­cise, reserved and demand­ing. Their most promi­nent qual­i­ty is reli­a­bil­i­ty and they will always make every effort to keep any promise giv­en. Reli­able Real­ists are more qui­et and seri­ous per­sons, they do not talk a lot but they are good lis­ten­ers. They some­times seem reserved and dis­tant to out­siders although they often have a great deal of wit and esprit. Their strong points are thor­ough­ness, a marked sense of jus­tice, dogged­ness bor­der­ing on pig­head­ed­ness and a prag­mat­ic, vig­or­ous and pur­pose­ful man­ner. Reli­able Real­ists do not dither about if some­thing has to be done. They do what is nec­es­sary with­out wast­ing words.

You can read the com­plete descrip­tion of what a Reli­able Real­ist con­sti­tutes on iPer­son­ic’s web­site. What per­son­al­i­ty type are you?

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