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physos — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:45:02 +0000

Switzerland train.

On the Rail again

physos — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:30:01 +0000

I am on my way to Switzerland again. Looking forward to 2 days of teaching Linux to some very good administrators. I like Switzerland and I love my job for allowing me to go there and spread Linux. The 6 hours in trains and stations I am less enthusiastic about. Lets see if all connections work out.

München – ToDo – Weather

physos — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:32:28 +0000

I was in München for the last two days. Met many interesting people, even had a nice Linux discussion on the train home with real world developers who really had a clue what KDE is about.

Small part of my Todo for today. Guess what it is about.

There is some nice weather outside today, so I will test my Wlan reception in the garden. Perheaps thats motivating enough to finish this darn thing finally.

Zürich (Day1)

physos — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:02:59 +0000

Zürich is a very nice town.

It is not too big and very neat. There are no spectacular new buildings from the 70s which nobody wants to look at anymore. The old buildings have a nice touch of understatement while being spectacular at the same time. (photos follow later)

I doubt I have seen as many banks per square km outside of Frankfurt. The banks here have smaller buildings, but I doubt they have less money ;)

One thing you notice pretty fast is Switzerland being an expensive country. At least when compared to Germany. According to the BicMac index almost 25%.

Well walking along Z�rich Bahnhofstr. is not really showing reality ;) Lots of jewels, expensive clothes and banks. (Cartier … , Dolce & Gabana … , Credit Suisse …)

Apropos McDonalds, McD Switzerland has WLAN Accesspoints (for free until 28.02) in all restaurants according to the written advertisement. Unfourtunately I left my Laptop in my room and my Zaurus is at home. Last time I walk around without a WLAN capable device. :(

I expected more snow than back home, but it feels warmer and it has actually less snow than where I came from.

After walking around Z�rich all afternoon my feet hurt and I am tired. So no coherent post right now ;)