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Archive for December, 2009

I’m famous in Korea :-)

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Ocassionaly, I check who visits my blog with Google Analytics. Recently, I realized an interesting spike from Korea.
Apperently someone found my blog useful and refered to it. Here is the post which refers to my blog.

Even tough I wasn’t blogging that actively lately, the traffic on my site was still there thanks to all the Korean visitors.

Google Server Error

Friday, December 18th, 2009

The first time I saw a Google Server Error. I was amazed that this message is translated in 18 different languages. I guess, it must be important that everyone understands that google has a problem. :-)
Google Server Error

Back in Switzerland

Thursday, December 17th, 2009
People were glad to have me back in Switzerland… Which I conclude from the welcome gifts I received :-)
I especially liked the balloon with the 20min! But I shall not name him here in the blog :-P

Welcome home cake ILoveYou

Two interesting things from my flight back to Switzerland:
In the Washington Dulles airport I saw a man in a wheelchair with a Challenged Athletes t-shirt on. I was curious about it, and asked him few question about the sport and how the training is going. As it turns out it was Oz Sanchez which is one of the top handcycle and also triathlon athletes. He won a gold and bronze medal at the Paralympics in Beijin (Peking) 2008.

The other interesting thing is the book I read on my journey:The curious incident of the dog in the night-time” by Mark Haddon. It is an easy read from an unusual perspective. The book is written as if the main character Christopher Boone, who has the Asperger’s Syndrome, had written this book. He looks at the world with different eyes than we do which makes it a very interesting read. In fact it is so interesting that I finished the whole book in the flight home, ignoring G.I. Joe which was shown as part of the in flight entertainment program.