I'm at Changi airport, about to board my Swiss flight for Zurich. I had a great few days, here in Singapore, culminating in a presentation on integrating Kinect Fusion and Leap Motion with AutoCAD for members of the various engineering teams here. It was a lot of fun. Anyway, I'm heading home, now. I think […]

My flight out of Zurich was delayed slightly – for snow, of all things! – but the trip across to San Francisco was otherwise smooth enough. After spending a fun Saturday night and Sunday in the city – catching up with old friends – it was nice to head back up to San Rafael for […]

I'm hopping on a plane tomorrow to head across to the Bay Area for a week – I have some internal meetings to attend there. This is the first time I'm flying direct from Switzerland – Swiss now run a direct flight from Zurich to SFO – so that's something, I suppose. I actually have […]

So that's it, then. As mentioned some months ago, I've now successfully transitioned from thirtysomething to fortysomething. To celebrate the day itself, I shared a cheese fondue with family and a few friends. What was a bit different about this meal is that we had it in the back of a specially adapted horse-drawn carriage […]

The last few Wednesday mornings I've swung by Place de la Gare to visit the recently-opened Fab Lab in Neuchâtel. Here's a quick video description of what Fab Labs are about (and here's their charter): I was new to the concept of Fab Labs, but was excited to find out one now exists here (thankfully […]

This picture should say it all. Back next week!

I'm up in the Alps enjoying a week of skiing (in my case snowboarding) with my family. Swiss schools have a very civilised "ski week" where the kids get a week off school sometime between the Christmas and Easter holidays – the specific week varies from canton to canton and this week happens to be […]