Schweiz

to self - mainly because the talk slides are in pdf, some with unclickable links

Books:

• The wave rider
• The art of powerful questions
• Collaboration explained
• Software for your Head
• The skilled Facilitator
• Fearless Change
• Clean Code

Online

• S.O.L.I.D

more to follow

I don’t know what you experience when you go into a book store. But if you are like me, you spend quite some money there, in spite of amazon and the like. Today I went into a book store looking for a gift - went out with the gift and to additional books for me.

About the icelandic author I can’t say anything so far - at the moment I am just hooked by Iceland, so I hope I like it. And then I saw the newest book of Gertrud Leutenegger, a swiss author. She has written many books, but is not very well known. I suspect because not much happens in her books. At least at the first glance. And her language is excellent - it is really fascinating reading her. Only to hope that I don’t expect too much from the new book.

By the way I wouldn’t have known Leutenegger either, if it hadn’t been for Monika Schnyder. Besides teaching arabic (egyptian dialect), Monika is writing wonderful poems. And she happens to be a good friend of mine!

Just bought this tarzan t-shirt!

Some politicians really are bad losers. And they don’t fear to show it. The actual campaign against a elected member of the swiss government shows this. The ultimatum posted by some hard liners of the SVP against Eveline Widmer-Schlupf is incredible, disrespectful and mysogynic by itself. Some incredible results of this campaign:

1. The SVP showed a good result some county elections in spite of this campaign
2. A supporting website was a victim of a distributed denial of service attack

Die Melde- und Analysestelle Informationssicherung MELANI des Bundes hat die Logdateien des Servers analysiert und ist zum vorläufigen Schluss gekommen, dass am 9. April 2008 wahrscheinlich kein DDoS-Angriff auf www.forza-eveline.net stattgefunden hat. Dies im Gegensatz zum amerikanischen Hosting Provider, der von einem historischen Schlag von nie gesehenem Ausmass spricht

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Allerdings hat MELANI Indizien für einen möglicherweise erfolgreichen Angriff auf die Datenbank gefunden.

Last week we spent in Mon close to Savognin. Boyzeler was the first time on skis and he does it quite well. But after a while he sure preferred playing with water, snow and stones, as he proved by taking this picture:

Besides skiing we also went sledding. On our way to the Alp Flix we made a fire in the snow. This the kids found particular funny, especially when M. showed them what to use to start the fire without paper. All in all week with a lot of fun!

I got this post card last week. Really enjoyed it. Great to see that a lot of good stuff develop out of a a really bad campaign.

See also das-schwarze-schaf.ch