Last weekend I was party to a expedition to the incredible Alpamare acquatic complex a few miles south of Zurich.
Billed as the biggest covered waterpark in Europe – this has to be the most incredible ’swimming baths’ I have been to in my life, and if I were less than …

2 February 2010 Life in Strasbourg, travel

Check this out, it’s the local equivalent of ‘journeyplanner’ …. http://www.vialsace.eu/

1 February 2010 web / marketing

This post by Aaron Winborn, author of, among other things, a book entitled ‘Drupal Multimedia’ seems to find it’s way to the top of my Google search queries on a regular basis.
The article, written in August 2008, weighs up the pros and cons of the three leading open-source content management …

24 January 2010 Life in France

When a word sounds exactly the same in French as it does in English, yet has an entirely different meaning, it is often referred to as a ‘False Friend’. Indeed some words can have a meaning far removed from what you intend.
For example a ‘chauvinist’ in French …

21 January 2010 Life in Strasbourg

While historical successes of Racing Strasbourg, or ‘Le Racing’ as they are known hereabouts, have not led to high expectations from their devoted fans, recent developments have made even the most football-phobic residents of France’s ninth largest city groan with embarrassment.
Can it really be the same team that lifted the …

31st December 2010, New Year’s Eve, the last day of the year.
Okay, I know, you might be doing something in the evening, but between the hours of 9 and 5 (excluding lunchtime of course) will be your last chance to register to vote in any forthcoming European or Municipal elections.
If …

I’ve had one of those days.
First off, my meeting with the Strasbulles web team was put asunder thanks to a spurious general error on the Strasbulles website.
Secondly, I was unable to connect to the internet because my laptop had spuriously decided that it couldn’t remember it’s name.
Thirdly, as I …

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