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I was just sent this video (thanks, Aurelia!) featuring scenes from the amazing Design Nights Autodesk has held around the world. Yes, including the one we organised here in Neuchatel, Switzerland. I've had a pretty hectic start to the week, so this is (unusually, as it's Wednesday) my first post. But I have […]
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It turns there is a downside to choosing a small airline based in a small airport. My happiness at discovering both the Bern airport and the airline flying out of it was considerably lessened when my flight home was cancelled without explanation, last night. After much shared confusion with my fellow travellers, I ended up […]
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Our eldest son has caught the scuba diving bug, big-time. He's a fourth generation scuba diver on my wife's side – my side's full of landlubbers – and as he's just completed his PADI Junior Open Water it was important for us to find a good diving location for this October's break. We chose a […]
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As mentioned yesterday, on Saturday my second son and I got up at the crack of dawn to drive across to the Alpine town of Grindelwald. It's the third time I've made this particular pilgrimage in the last four years (last year I had a conflicting event in the UK) and it's become something of […]
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I was a little surprised when LinkedIn reported my 21st anniversary at Autodesk, a couple of weeks' ago. I eventually realised it was because the middle of my month of starting had been chosen to notify my connections of this particular anniversary (LinkedIn doesn't have the specific date, I suppose). Anyway, it turns out today's […]
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This week has been a little hectic, once again. Yesterday I spent the morning back across at ETH Zurich, speaking with members of the Block Research Group about Forge, Dynamo and HoloLens. They've just moved into a brand new building labelled HIB – where the various schools at ETH focusing on architecture from a technological […]
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We're up in the beautiful Swiss town of Adelboden, our favourite local winter destination but also somewhere we try our best to visit in summer, too. We're here to enjoy the mountains and celebrate the Swiss National Day. (While I'm not personally Swiss – I hold a UK passport – the rest of my family […]
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The 2016 Tour de France passed within a few hundred metres of my home, this afternoon. It comes to Switzerland every so often – I'm guessing at every 5-6 years, on average – but it's the first time I've had the chance to see it here. We made an afternoon of it: with some friends […]
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Last week this blog sailed through the 10th anniversary of its first post. I can't believe how time has flown… posting 3 times a week for a decade has resulted in 1,448 posts, accumulating more than 6.2 million pageviews. I suppose when something's so much fun you don't really see time passing. Visually, the blog […]
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It was a great weekend of football at Autodesk's annual tournament – this time nicely closely to home in Zurich. The Neuchâtel team did really well in the group round, as in recent years: we came top of Group C, which turned out to be the "group of death" – two teams we beat went […]