Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • I’m just a few hours from heading up to Zurich to catch my flight back to Melbourne. Switzerland is a lovely country but it’s been a busy week so I’m looking forward to getting back home.

  • The nice local who helped out with the photo told me this was a recent addition to the banks of the Rhine. It’s intended to be temporary but he is hoping they keep it.

    Me standing next to a six foot high white sign that says Basel with the Rhine and the old city in the background.

  • I started my morning in Basel with a short walk around the city. There are some subtle signs that Eurovision was in town a couple of weeks ago.

    A warning sign made up of three vertical planks. The sign is painted in red and white horizontal stripes. In a white section HOT GAY SEX is graffiti on the sign.

  • A little proud of myself for making it through to 9pm last night with only a 75 minute nap. I was not expecting that after landing at 7am.

  • The customs agent sympathising that I’d have to do all this travel again next week was both lovely and Not At All Helpful Right Now. But mainly lovely.

  • Friends I am hanging out with at WordCamp Europe this week, your job is to make sure the idiot Australian doesn’t step out in front of a vehicle because I’m looking the wrong way.

  • Just when I thought there was no way international travel could be more stressful, they started testing the emergency alarm systems. All of them.

  • Apparently it’s acceptable to make phone calls on speaker in cafes now. Fortunately I was only getting a takeaway when I learnt this.

  • I will never get bored of opting in to mailing lists that allow me to do so with @example.com email addresses.

  • There’s nothing like receiving an email addressed to “Dear git-commit-by” to make a company look respectable.