The Maze of Death

The Maze of Death is a really beautiful book of Philip K. Dick, where sci-fi meets thriller. This book keeps the reader in suspense until a surprising end.

13 people, wanting to change their job, are assigned to a mission on a planet Delmak-0. They won’t know their job until then all of them will have arrived on the planet. All must arrive aboard of a noser, a space-ship able to do only one-way trips. When finally they start to hear the recordered message containing the instructions for their mission, the connection is interrupted and the message deleted. Things are organized in such a way that they have no way to establish any other connection. Strange things start to happen on this strange planet, including a lot of unexplicated murders. People starts to inquire…and they will find out something you don’t expect.

Zina in action

Zina in action

Zina in action

Waiting the train

RhB Susch

RhB Susch

La caccia

La caccia alta è finita. Ecco un piccolo video dedicato una delle più giovani cacciatrici grigionesi (Nei Grigioni abbiamo ben 5′000 cacciatori, di cui 125 donne):

La stgargiada d’alp

Una parte delle mucche dell’alpaggio comunale sono scese  e rientrate in villaggio.

L'arrivo in villaggio

L'arrivo in villaggio

Migration to nginx completed

The migration to nginx is finally done. My flash-upload works pretty well, much better than the previous Java-applet. I’m proud of it. The site runs now on two identical servers, each one is running nginx. One of the two serves php and mysql, the other one serves just static files and images. Nginx is very powerful and the website speed up remarkably.

Flash Upload Feature

Migration to nginx continues. Stani is configuring the server. I’m developping the new file-upload feature with haxe and javascript. Flash is a very nice language and I’m having fun. but still have a lot of work before it will be ready.

Bündner Staiböcke

…Bünder Steinböcke… Just found on youtube, it’s really funny

An ibex from Zurich try to learn the Swiss-Dutch of Grisons

Zürcher Steinbock versucht Bündnerdeutsch zu sprechen

An ibex from Grisons speaks in Retoromanch and  one from Zurich “translates” in his Dutch.

Ein Bündner Steinbock spricht auf Romanisch und ein Zürcher Steinbock übersetzt in Zürcher-Deutsch

First Snow of September

Nach etwas zwei Wochen mit 35-37°, gestern abends hat es stark gehagelt… alles war weiss, aber es war kein Schnee. Heute morgen sind alle Gipfel gezückert.

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Migrating to Nginx

We’re migrating our server from Apache to Nginx, a powerful web-server. Already all the summer we used it for serving all static files, but php-scripts were still served through Apache. The migration progresses faster than I thought.

The only small problem is that the Java-Applet that we use for uploading photos doesn’t work and won’t work, but anyway, that Applet was already working badly and it’s time to substitute it with a modern flash-upload.

In order to test all this on my old Mac (eMac from 2003), I’ve removed my old fink, installed XCode (in order to be able to use gcc 4) and macports and I’m really enjoying my new configuration. Installing stuff is now a game for children.