Month: November 2007
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About an old life
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I watched the Return of the King the other evening. Nearly at the end Frodo reflects on his adventure and thinks/writes the following: "How do you pick up the threads of an old life. How do you get on when in your heart you begin to understand there is no…
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Surveying a new project
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Just came back Yesterday evening from surveying a water project in a Lahu village. The existing piping doesn’t produce enough water anymore. In this particular village I did my first project nearly seven years ago. So we ventured into the mountains and worked our way through the jungle. I took…
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Communication with a Mac
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Even though I had my share of problems with my ibook lately (as I write this my ibook G4 is in repairs again) I like Mac computers. I don’t regret switching even though there is a learning curve. Once the switch is made some kind of symbiosis takes place. I…
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The dilemma of the news
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Maybe I read to much, maybe I just get to much information. I just feel overwhelmed by what is happening out here in the world. Through the internet, newspaper and CNN/BBC I have access to the worlds disasters, war, genocide and latest starlet gossip. I mostly get the suffering and…
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A lazy morning
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I’m having a lazy morning. Luckily Lillian brought me coffee to bed and so I didn’t even have to get up. It is raining outside and the option of getting up was just not very appealing. It is cold today, at least for my own standards. I know in Switzerland…