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a time trip to the 1950s

even though the place we live at here in switzerland has a rather rural character — there are several livestock markets throughout the year down at the station square, very few regions regularly vote more conservative than ours — einsiedeln … Continue reading

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recipe: slow-roasted pork butt (blade)

meat: 1kg pork butt (blade) crust: 1 glove garlic teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons italian herb mixture 1 teaspoon sweet paprika 3 tablespoons olive oil freshly ground pepper 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar (aceto balsamico) pre-heat the oven to 80–90°C wash the … Continue reading

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the joys of creative commons licenses

i’m in the process of re-working both this blog and my photo site. for the photo site i’ve switched from zenphoto to jalbum — zenphoto didn’t really offer any decent support for displaying geo-tagged pictures, had at the point in … Continue reading

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@jmdhh admiring the views…

at the beginning of june @jmdhh and i spent two fantastic weeks in the english lake district — one of our walks took us up on top of silver how. the photo below shows @jmdhh enjoying the wonderful landscape and … Continue reading

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recipe: vampire ears tortilla with cherry tomato chutney

tortilla1 ingredients: 300g potatoes 140g dried tomatoes in olive oil (aka vampire ears) 40g pitted black olives 5 large eggs clove of garlic 2 + 1 tablespoons olive oil chutney ingredients: 200g cherry tomatoes 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 tablespoon … Continue reading

panorama from hochstuckli © in the wee hours . All rights reserved.

panorama picture experiment

last saturday mrs d and i did a snow shoe hike from alpthal stei up to hochstuckli and then across to biberegg. the views were fantastic, the snow was good prompted by mrs d, i tried my hand at taking … Continue reading

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some more pseudo HDR experiments

during sunday’s #twallfahrt i managed to take a couple of 5-step bracketed pictures, two of which i think produced some interesting results. the first one is the view from etzel pass towards einsiedeln: at first i thought that it looks … Continue reading

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world’s first twitter wallfahrt!

9:10 — ms d and i arrive at einsiedeln railway station, all kitted out in our walking gear, ready to go. walking past the train we spot our fellow pilgrims. yep, pilgrims: we are on our way to the starting … Continue reading

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swiss conservatives: annex regions surrounding switzerland!

yesterday’s tagesanzeiger report on a parliamentary motion of the swiss conservatives right-wing, nationalist party SVP to prepare the annexation of all regions surrounding switzerland — no, today’s not the first of april. interesting. as the tagesanzeiger rightly observes that would … Continue reading