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We’re still months from July, but I’m already in the planning stages for my summer bike tour. This year will be the #9 “Seen-Route” or “Lake-Route” that cuts 500km diagonally through Switzerland. According to an online brochure: This route takes you right through picture-postcard Switzerland, from Lake Constance to Lake Geneva. Cycle past the lovely [...]

Losing weight has advantages. Tonight I went rock climbing after a five-year break from the sport. I went regularly between 1998 and 2000 but stopped since moving to Switzerland. I forgot how difficult it was, but I think I did well for my first time back. We went to the Kletterhalle St. Gallen which is [...]

Last week I moved burntlands.org to a new hosting provider. The hosting company is Dreamhost.com and they offer above my previous hosts: better price; 10x larger diskquota; free domain registration; and unlimited subdomains. They also have a referrel program which means $97 goes to a friend who also uses their services. Since burntlands.org was already [...]

It was a perfect weekend to be outside. On Saturday I went on a solo snowshoe hike from Schwagalp (the base of Saentis) to Stein. Most of the route was in the shadow of a valley, but opened to a gorgeous panorama at Risipass overlooking the Churfirsten mountains. It was very quiet and I met [...]

You may have heard about the Million Dollar Homepage. The site is the original ‘pixel-ad’ site that was set-up by an English student to raise money for university. His idea was to sell one million pixels of advertising space on a single 1000×1000 image map for $1 per pixel. He has now earned $999’000 and [...]