GIS training courses in ten minutes? A new series of fact sheets from MapIT.biz claims teach you GIS as well as various system and process modeling techniques in only ten minutes. Perhaps. While some more time might be required for thorough understanding of this comprehensive topic, the fact sheets are quite informative and would be […]
However scary the media tries to make the Middle East look; the Gulf states look very much like Main Street USA. Nowhere in the world, New York included, is the density of American brands higher than in Kuwait City. Between Applebees, Chilis, Fridays Starbucks, Gloria Jean’s Coffee and KFC there is little to remind you […]
After uplifting results in the late summer of 2010 I find that things have taken a turn for the worse in the cancerous growth of Facebook as a brand. “I love Facebook” returned 3 890 000 results “I hate Facebook” returned 1 910 000 results I believe it would have been healthier if the second […]
The Shiva temple of Pashupatinath in Kathmandu is popular with tourists as well as devoted Hindus – and – with mourners who come there to cremate their family members. This combination sets the scene for a bizarre experience on the banks of the Bagmati River. Just as we arrived, a self proclaimed guide reared his […]
While I was initially full of good intentions and itching to share my thoughts on this, that and the other, 2011 didn’t yield more than one post to bergheim.dk: a happy new year message. In terms of active blogging, this is just about the same as a horizontal curve on a heart rate monitor. However, […]
The gentleman in the picture below works in one of the many shops in the souq in Mutrah in the captial of Oman, Muscat. In addition to being a persuasive seller of pashmina and “same-same-but-different pashmina” shawls, he is also a numismatic. Among the curiosities of his collections he counts a Jugoslavian 1 000 000 000 (one billion) dinar […]
I haven’t conducted my love/hate Facebook search for a couple of years and thought that it could be interesting to see how the phenomena has developed since then. The relative numbers appear to be the same: “I love Facebook” returned 969 000 hits “I hate Facebook” returned 1 110 000 hits I am surprised – […]
Somewhat ironically, since I moved abroad three years ago, the number of posts written in English have gone dramatically down. In order to catch up, here follows my best wishes for a happy 2011– as well as a posthumous happy 2010 to you all!!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Years card which was not sent […]
Who: Myself, EuropeanaLocal colleagues What: Sightseeing in Umbria and Marche, meeting in Ancona Where: Gubbio and Spoleto (Umbria), Bolognola, Monte Sibillini, Macerata, Numana, Monte Conero, Ancona (Marche) When: March 2009 Farmlands in the countryside in the western part of Marche
Not even as a failure had my misadventure been complete. My walk had yielded several photos of the mountain I had wanted to climb with which I was pleased. And, the sunset had been—as is the custom of sunsets—faultless. But… to every silver lining, there is a cloud, and that cloud was now on my […]