Long weekend: It’s the Swiss national day on Tuesday and I’m taking Monday off. I haven’t decided what I’ll do yet… for suggestions, leave a comment below 😉 Here are a couple of links that have been lingering in draft status: Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School – IMHO you can… Continue reading Fare il ponte
Month: July 2006
Sling bag for digital nomads
This looks like a neat idea: a sling bag with flexible solar cells via bloggerli
Chongoni Rock Art Area
The Chongoni Rock Art Area has been added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage sites: Situated within a cluster of forested granite hills and covering an area of 126.4 km2, high up the plateau of central Malawi, the area features the richest concentration of rock art in Central Africa on 127 sites. They reflect the… Continue reading Chongoni Rock Art Area
Mount Mulanje Porters Race
The annual Mount Mulanje Porters Race takes place tomorrow for the 10th time. The race starts at Likhubula Forest Office and goes up to Chambe Plateau, about 2500m above see level, before proceeding (via the plateau) to Lichenya Plateau and back to Likhubula. Last year’s winner ran this tiring 25km race in 2 hrs and… Continue reading Mount Mulanje Porters Race
summer blue
Writing Copy
Couple of writing tips I found at MarketingProfs.com: Begin with a story Use short words Write shorter sentences Remove clichés Use bridges or connectors Use concrete examples rather than concepts Pay attention to your verbs
MarComm Writing Tactics
Can technical writers be good marketing writers – and vice versa? The above presentation notes are old (from 2002 i.e. definitely Web 1.0), but the question is interesting… what’s your opinion on this? (update: unfortunately the site seems to be down. Note to myself: write a short summary of the main points for future reference.)
Sunny Days
Summer sports program in Basel from 10th July to 12th August: Sunny Days … they haven’t updated the pdf file with this year’s list of courses yet. [update] The pdf is up now!