these do make me a tiny bit homesick.
Tag: switzerland
Sentiero Alpino Calanca
that looks like an awesome hike. with bivouac.
Manhattan vs Zurich
Having recently come back from Zurich, I was curious how Manhattan and Zurich compare, size-wise. It turns out Manhattan is the same size as Zurich, but has 1.6m inhabitants, while Zurich has 380k.
Cask Strength Peated
Säntismalt a smoky whiskey from switzerland. who knew? it competes favorably.
Doodle API
Zurich-based Doodle is hoping its Outlook plugin, generic calendar feeds, white-label version and – most importantly – new open API for developers will set it apart from the pack.
outlook plugin?? ewww
SwissCom Fail
Le Web, which paid €100k to Swisscom to ensure lightning fast Internet, had no Internet connectivity. Nothing for the audience, nothing for the stage, nothing in the press room.
completely incompetent. good thing we ddn’t pick them as investors.
Swiss Default?
more signs that switzerland may default. given the large fraction of the population that does nothing productive but “works” at a bank, this would not surprise me.
Swiss Genography
Investigators were able to find genetic differences among French, German and Italian-speaking Swiss individuals, with French speakers being more similar to the French, German speakers to Germans and Italian speakers to Italians.
search.ch got screwed
i’m really sorry for the search.ch crew that they got screwed by an incompetent, clueless and doomed company, tamedia. the demise of newspapers is coming to switzerland too.
Swiss Overleveraging
UBS and Credit Suisse, whose assets exceed the country’s GDP 7x
for my swiss friends who mistakenly think this is a US problem alone.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 