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Jaw-dropping aerial views of Switzerland
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A twenty minute film in association with Swiss Tourism, showing tremendous aerial views from around Switzerland.
An unwanted friendship
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If you had a friend who cheated, abused your trust and did everything in order to profit himself, how would you react?
The photographic ad with no Photoshop
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British photographer “Miss Anelia” produced surreal and highly-detailed fashion images to advertise the new Nikon D810, without the use of Photoshop.
F is for Festival
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The latest in a alphabetic series on aspects of my life: this time, the letter F is inspired by this weekend’s Glastonbury Festival.
Aare You Safe?
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Swimming in the river Aare is a regular summer pastime of the Bernese in Switzerland. But there are occasionally mishaps. The campaign “Aare You Safe?” is intended to remind the public of the dangers of swimming in the river: not with a wagging finger but with a “cheeky wink”. Keep an eye on yourself and
Cimiterio delle Clarisse, Ischia
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The gruesome crypt beneath the former monastery in the Aragonese Castle of Ischia Ponte.
Parcours on the Altenbergsteg bridge in Bern
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Être Fort (“Be Strong”) parcours athlete Simon Gfeller crosses the Altenbergsteg bridge in Bern the hard way: by hand, across the underside of the iron framework.
Mind-bending planetary panoramas
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Seen plenty of time lapses involving star trails and motion effects? You won’t have seen anything like this sequence by photographer Vincent Brady.
Molo di San Vincenzo
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The lighthouse on Molo di San Vincenzo (the main breakwater of the harbour) in Naples was built in 1950 but taken out of service just 29 years later, being superseded by an electric alternative on a lattice structure nearby. The statue in front of the tower is of San Gennaro (original name Januarius), the patron saint of Naples, who
Capo Miseno
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“At the top of the great stone lighthouse, hidden beyond the ridge of the southern headland, the slaves were dousing the fires to greet the dawn. It was supposed to be a sacred place. According to Virgil, this was the spot where Misenus, the herald of the Trojans, slain by the sea god Triton, lay
What the Swiss keep in their barns and cellars
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A short film by Rick Steves about the unexpected artillery behind closed barn doors, and the overly-secure cellar bomb shelters beneath almost every Swiss home. The main installation featured is the Artilleriewerk Faulensee at the end of our road.
How to make a bad impression
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A cold call from Bharti Consulting Services SARL in Paris quickly escalates into harassment and arrogance.
Blogging in an imperfectly multilingual world
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I was at WordCamp Switzerland 2014 last weekend; a WordPress conference aimed at both content creators and developers. One of the many interesting talks on the day was by Stephanie Booth on the subject of blogging in a multilingual world. The premise of many (even most) websites is that there should be a clear separation of content:
Password or no password?
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Pros and cons to password generation, authentication via email, and whether there are any options to get rid of passwords altogether.
Ulm Minster
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I’d all but forgotten that we’d even visited Ulm, until I came across a set of photos of the interior of the minster.
St. Dunstan-in-the-East
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St. Dunstan-in-the-East was a church in the City of London, built in 1100, extended in the fourteenth century and repaired just over thirty years before the Great Fire of London, after which a large steeple to a design by Sir Christopher Wren was added. Despite largely surviving the fire, the structure was found to be unsafe in
