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Given the impending closure of our Neuchâtel office – we have our big closing party on Thursday afternoon, although a few teams will still have people in the office until the end of August – there are a lot of former (and soon-to-be-former) Autodeskers starting to look for jobs in the region. Most were offered […]
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On Friday lunchtime – after a great few days in Barcelona for the Forge Accelerator – I hopped on an EasyJet flight to Bordeaux for this year's internal Autodesk football tournament. I was one of the lucky ones: there was a later Vueling flight – which I'd very nearly opted to take – that was […]
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Back in the UK, during my teenage years, I got into field hockey in a big way. I spent several winters playing hockey on frozen grass pitches around the East of England. When I went to University I played a lot more (between the 2nd and 1st teams, this time mostly on astroturf), and thoroughly […]
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To help celebrate Star Wars Day, I've decided to talk about an incredible concert I was lucky to be able to attend with my wife and friends last weekend. It's funny: I remember booking tickets for the concert way back during our round-the-world trip: it was a rainy day in Sao Paolo when I found […]
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When I first visited Neuchatel I instantly fell in love with the city. This was back in the summer of 1995, during my second round job interview for Autodesk. From that moment I knew I wanted to live here, but it was only in early 1998 that I had the chance to do so: a […]
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It's been a busy couple of months since getting back from our big trip (which, while incredible at many levels, was in itself not really a relaxing experience, all things considered). So in some ways it feels like a good time to take a break, especially as the kids have the week off school. We […]
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Last week I received an important letter through the post. It was final confirmation from the Swiss Confederation that I'm being granted Swiss nationality. This is something I could have requested some time ago – due to the years I've been married to a Swiss person (something I lovingly refer to as "time served" 😉 […]
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Something has been nagging at me, since returning from our world trip. Perhaps it's best described as the impact social media is having on travel. Interestingly it's been talked about very recently in The Guardian in an opinion piece entitled "Instagrammers are sucking the life and soul out of travel". While we didn't necessarily plan […]
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A year ago I talked about my early forays into the world of home automation, mainly via Philips Hue. I'm now treating the "experiment" as a success, and have decided to invest in more lights (and another Hue bridge for our main home). While thinking about this, I decided to check on the availability of […]
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So, that's it. 6 months flew by in the blink of an eye, and we're back home in Switzerland. On the one hand it seemed to go quickly, while on the other hand we feel as though we've come back to a house we barely recognise full of stuff we don't need… We each have […]