Archive for February, 2008

19
Feb

On the way to the olympic games

Sometimes there are days you get up and you think it will be another boring day in the office doing the paperwork as usual if I’m not out sailing and taking pictures.

Today seemed to be such a day until I got the phone call from Swiss Olympic asking me if I still can go to China taking pictures at the games. I couldn’t believe my ears, what kind of a question…sure I want to go it’s something I’m dreaming and hoping since long time.

Now it’s time for a short break to enjoy this moment and then I guess we have to start to fill in a few forms…details about all this later.

Take care and enjoy the day

Jürg

07
Feb

MURPHY’S LAWS: go4image.com website is down

Since a few days the go4image.com website is down….the good old hard disk of the service provider was probably a bit too old.

In a normal case the backup should come in to the game but it looks to me that it didn’t. End of week the webpage should be back online, let’s hope.

In the mean time, someone may read carefully the good old MURPHY’S LAWS

“If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.”

Just in case here is the complet murphy’s laws

THE PRIME AXIOM: In any field of scientific endeavor, anything that can go wrong, will.
 2.  If the possibility exists of several things going wrong, the one that will go wrong is the one that will do the most damage.
 3.  Everything will go wrong at one time.
 3.1 That time is always when you least expect it.
 4.  If nothing can go wrong, something will.
 5.  Nothing is as easy as it looks.
 6.  Everything takes longer than you think.
 7.  Left to themselves, things always go from bad to worse.
 8.  Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
 9.  Given the most inappropriate time for something to go wrong, that's when it will occur.
 10.  Mother Nature is a bitch.
 10.1 The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.
 11.  If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
 12.  If in any problem you find yourself doing an immense amount of work,the answer can be obtained by simple inspection.
 13.  Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
 14.  If it doesn't fit, use a bigger hammer.
 15.  In an instrument or device characterized by a number of plus-or-minus errors, the total error will be the sum of all the errors adding in
 the same direction.
 16.  In any given calculation, the fault will never be placed if more than one person is involved.
 16.1 In any given discovery, the credit will never be properly placed if more than one person is involved.
 17.  All warranty and guarantee clauses become invalid upon payment of the final invoice.
 18.  Murphy's Law: "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it."
01
Feb

What happend in January

I think I was a bit lazy in the last month at least I did not post any news, the phone call from a good friend this morning saying…where in the world are you and what are you doing? Is probably the sign to do a bit more.

In January I was travelling a photo-shooting I Laos, I love that country. All this national protected areas are great to go and discover the still today plenty of untouched Asiaand no crime at all.
The last trekking was unforgettable, in central Laos close to the Vietnam border we spend a few days trekking from one village to the other, all of them from an ethnic minority called Kamoung.
The image below give you an impression about how they life.

 

Just after I came back home I jumped again in the plane to Manaco, sailing rules training for the Swiss Sailing Youth Team.
A bit of hearing training and on the water we played the good old team race game to apply the right of way rules.
I like to do the team race exercise during trainings, first off all you can practice rules in a funny way as the goal is not anymore to win but not to have the fourth position in the race if you do 2 teams of 2 boats.

Now I’m back in Switzerland and I working on 3 main projects, setting up the Laser Europa Cup 2008 for Lugano, then the Lugano Nautica where some of my sailing photos will be exposed and the with great pleasure we can finally start the preparation of a great sailing event which will be hold again in Lugano with some big 40 ft multihull. But details about that in a few days.