Posts about Work
Technical case study: Rütli
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Details of the new website for Swiss national historic location Rütli, combined with a brief explanation of the meadow’s history.
Through the Windows
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A personal history of computer desktop wallpaper, a Microsoft Switzerland competition in which you can take part, and some free landscape photos for you to download.
iPhone dilemma
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When I next renew my mobile phone contract in May, I will be entitled to get a new mobile phone at a much reduced price. I’m currently getting ahead of myself and trying to decide whether I really need a cameraphone with many megapixels, or whether I should just follow my instinct, get an iPhone
Customer disservice from Ryanair
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Abusive feedback from Ryanair in response to a blog post, which detailed a potential flaw in the online booking system, provokes a rapid increase in negative publicity for the airline.
Funky Kitchen Club
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Funky Kitchen Club is a Swiss television series, produced in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland by Mountain Multi Media in association with ProSieben Switzerland.
One of those laptop shots
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A work colleague, backlit by the sun coming in through the window, flash laid on keyboard and bounced from laptop screen at 1/8 power to give f 2.8 at ISO 100. Fill-in flash from camera right at 1/1 power (losing 2 stops due to diffusion). And a little bit of dark vignette added during post-processing
Reviewing the review
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I remember the last time I reviewed a screen design with colleagues. It was for a small, local client, who was overwhelmed by the big, modern, alien monster which is the internet.
New beginnings
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I began my new job with Burson Marsteller Switzerland today. This is how it went.
Last Day in Brienz
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Photos from my last day in Brienz after seven and a half years with Gossweiler Media AG are now online at Flickr.
TFI Thursday
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So this is what it feels like to be on a last day at work. Not much different from any day over the past few weeks, as I began winding down some time ago and I completed all the clearing out of desks, drawers and files last week. Today, it’s just finishing up bits and
Into the end
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In a day less than two weeks, I shall be leaving this office for the last time.
Long Days on the rails
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I received a letter from my new employer today, detailing the first weeks of my employment and lots of interesting sessions they have planned, from “getting to know you” time in the office in Bern to “an hour with the CEO” at the Zürich office. Starting on my first day, I have meetings and sessions
Newspaper publishing in today’s online world
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I joined a newspaper company in 2001 to help maintain and develop a newspaper CMS system, which the development manager began creating on his own in 1994. In the past seven years, we’ve brought in web browser interfaces, RSS feeds, AJAX data handling, online publishing tools which allow the output to be sent direct to
Desk Memories – Gossweiler Media
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Photos of the desk at which I have developed most of the websites produced by Gossweiler Media in Brienz since 2001.
Filming on Männlichen
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I was asked at the end of last week by the director of a t.v. show to come along to Männlichen, above Grindelwald, and take stills from behind the camera.
Keeping abreast
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What is important to me, as a web user, programmer and community member, is the ability to access information both online and offline. I have long used the internet as a means of keeping in touch and keeping up to date, whether through reading British and American newspapers, writing email, using Skype to talk with
