Die Basler Zeitung verkündet heute auf ihren Online-News:
Hamas verbietet nicht genehmigte Demonstrationen.
und doppelt im ersten Abschnitt gleich nach: “Knapp zwei Monate nach der gewaltsamen Machtübernahme hat die radikalislamische Hamas von ihr nicht genehmigte Demonstrationen im Gazastreifen verboten.”
Was soll sie denn sonst tun? Sie etwa genehmigen?
Ja, ich weiss, das ist wichtige Weltpolitik. Durchlesen könnte man’s [...]

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Today is my first day back from the Scrum Master Certification course I took in Milan. Coming back to work was quite a shock – the landscape around my office was radically transformed:

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The really cool thing about my workplace here at the university is not that it’s full of really smart people (Remember Watson’s rules for doing important science: “Never be the smartest person in the room“). No, the coolest thing is that we’re all a bunch of geeks ready to do fun extraordinary stuff. We went [...]

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As you may have noticed, most entries are now closed, and can’t be commented on. Here’s why.

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Lately, I have been quite busy, so I didn’t find the peace & quiet to be blogging, but just to do a minimalistic update, I am back in Basel since quite a while.
I have a few more articles in mind, which will be written up fairly soon I hope, so hang in there

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Yesterday evening, I arrived in Victoria. So far, I can’t tell much about the city, since I wasn’t anywhere yet. Below, just some pictures that I snapped yesterday evening.

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Discovering greatness in greyness

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Today is monday. Normally, that’s not exactly my favorite day of the
week (CUE: BOOMTOWN RATS, I DON’T LIKE MONDAYS), but of course, when
you’re on holidays (pardon me, on a meeting I was meaning to say), it’s
not all that bad.

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I found this article on the web, thanks to (surprisingly!) Slashdot. Many pictures from the no-go area surrounding the Chernobyl reactor block that blew up in 1986. Very eery, very thought-provoking.
Update on March 30th, 2003:
Elena, the author of the article, has updated it with a host of new pictures. Definitely worth a re-visit. Also, the [...]

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Two of the authors of the cluetrain manifesto, Doc Searls and David Weinberger, have put up a little, concise article titled World of Ends. It’s about what the internet isn’t. I found this a very interesting article, and it reminded me of a discussion I had four years ago.

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