Category: travel
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The Allure of Public Libraries with E-Books
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy joining a book club and hearing people speak about borrowing books, rather than buying them I was at once asking myself the question "Why wouldn’t you buy a book when you can afford it?" and "Why wouldn’t you want to own the books you read?" Since then I have changed my…
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Apple and the Expensive Budget Phone
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few months ago I was thinking of getting a new iPhone SE and then I read that it would go up in price by at least 50 USD and that it would have an Apple modem and more and I lost interest in upgrading. For me the niche served by a…
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Lending Libraries in the Twenty First Century
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere was a time when you got an Audible Subscription and you had access to 24 credits per year. You could choose 24 books per year. That’s a new book every two weeks. Eventually, after many years the plan and offer changed. You can now buy books from Audible, or you can…
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On AI and Corporate Social Responsibility
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I went for a run. During this run I listened to Systems Crash and the discussion about AI, about the US attitude, and the European/International attitude and it convinced me that I much prefer to use EU/International projects rather than American ones for a simple reason. Corporate Social Responsibility. The…
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Walking with Others
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I walked from Vevey to villeneuve with a stop in the castle for a visit before taking the train home. In the process we walked about fifteen kilometres along the lake. This was an easy pace for me. It was slow enough for my heart rate to be at seventy eight…
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Chateau De Chillon
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe old and the new. The Chateau de Chillon and the Motorway
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A Comment on Dating Culture on Threads and Strava
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I was trolled by three people on Threads because of a comment on dating culture on Strava. I said that for me Strava is about networking rather than dating and for it one person said she friendzoned me, and two others were hostile rather than commenting in a friendly reason. For…
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Planned Obsolescence in Lifts
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis week I learned that mobile phones use mobile telephony for the emergency call system. This surprises me because I would expect them to use a fixed line rather than a mobile phone signal but also because when Swisscom or another telecom provider stop broadcasting on a frequency range like 3g,…
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Apple Watches and the Art of Standing for a Minute an Hour
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few minutes ago I looked at my Apple Watch and it said that I had not stood for the last two hours so I got up and walked around until it said that I had stood this hour. The irony is not lost on me that a watch would tell me…
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A Morning Run and the Ghost Platform
Reading Time: 2 minutesNormally I like to go for a run in the afternoon, after I have had a productive morning. This morning I went for a run first. This afternoon I have to go to an indoor meeting, which doesn’t fill me with euphoria. I feel an e-mail would achieve the same thing within…