Patrick C. Price

Nope, can’t talk about it …

Today, Swiss just started it’s six time weekly flight connection from Zurich to San Francisco, bringing Silicon Valley and the Bay Area even closer to Zurich.

I really like the design they put on their flight for the inauguration of the new connection:

This week I was called for an emergency PC / WLAN installation, at my sister, and got expert help from my little niece.

This week was my birthday again and ever since I’m 20 I don’t work on my birthday, but rather take the day off and do something special to reflect. This year I went sailing on the Lake of Zurich for 3 hours to refresh my sailing skills. What a great day it was!

Quite a while ago, I had read a post by Danny Sullivan, about his screen setup in his office and thought, wow, I want that too! Actually when I was still working for Scout24 and requested at least 2 Monitors per employee in my team, and was denied, that was one of the reasons I called it quits.

Anyhow for about 2 years now, I was trying to get 3 monitors to work on my pc and it just wouldn’t work. Most tipps inclueded 2x the same graphic-card, etc. What ever I tried, it didn’t work Fortunately the friendly people of Digitec finally got me out of my misery and even improved my own wished, by getting me a PCI-E graphicscard (using one PCI-E slot) that will simultaneously run 4 monitors!

Now you might ask, why in the hell would you want to run 4 monitors? Really easy. It’s like having a large desk over a really small desk, more space to layout things, less searching through your stuff.

Here is how I use them:
- middle monitor: this is my main working area where I do most my work, i.e. just typing this post on it
- left monitor: browser screen, use this to read up on stuff, navigate to pages that I want to copy and paste content from to the middle monitor
- right monitor: my communication window. here i run my e-mail, my twitter client, skype, etc. and can view all my communication with one view
- right upper monitor: my monitoring-screen. this is where I run real time live stats of my projects and portals, allowing me to see current server load, query strings, refering sites, etc. really good, to give you a feel of whats happening on your site. Actually almost like having a camera looking in to the seales area of your shop.

Learning out of all of this? If you want to increase your productivity, get more working space

A good friend of mine recently sent me this candid camera video of a snake exhibition quoting: “one could try this out once at your place” refering to my own (non-venomous) snakes.

There’s an old saying: It’s all fun and games, until someone looses an eye. I stumbled over this short movie on YouTube, showing why you should NEVER play on the potential fear of people EVER.

WARNING: This video is not for the light hearted, but it will leave you with a very distinct learning for life.

Gee, I never really thought of it that way. But read the text…

Happy International Woman’s Day to all you women out there!

A few months ago, I had the idea, of finding and connecting with all the “Patrick Price’s” on facebook. I founded a group called the Patrick Price’s of the world.

Now I happend to come across a Movie on YouTube, called “Google Me”, which describes the case of Jim Killeen, that set out to go meet all the Jim Killeen’s out there.

I find it quite a cool movie and suggest you get your beamer out, pop some popcorn and enjoy a story of how our world is become more interconnected each day.

Just happened to stumble upon this short movie about how moments can create connections…

Letzten Samstag fand das Startup Camp 2010 in Basel statt. Auch das Startup Camp wird in Form eines Bar Camps abgehalten und ist dementsprechend eine Un-Konferenz, bei dem das Programm durch die Teilnehmer selbst vor Ort organisiert wird.

Nachdem ich in Dominiks Wunschliste genannt wurde, war für mich klar, dass ich dem BarCamp-Gedanken folgend, nicht nur teilnehmen, sondern auch etwas dazu beitragen wollte. Leider war ich am morgen verhindert und da dort die Slots für die Präsentationen vergeben werden, gab es für mich nur die Möglichkeit, dies mittels eines Tweets mitzuteilen, in der Annahme, dass diese wohl auf einer Twitterwall publiziert würden. Gesagt getan und so dauerte es nicht lange, bis mir Daniel Ebneter, einer der Mitorganisatoren, meinen Slot bestätigte.

Wie hält man eine Präsentation über ein Thema, bei dem die Wissensunterschiede der Teilnehmenden grösser nicht sein könnten. Zum einen Teilnehmer, die gerade mit einer Idee für ein neues Projekt herumspielen, zum anderen Unternehmer, die konkrete detaillierte Problemstellungen im SEO Bereich haben?  Ich entschied mich, meine Präsentation, die sonst 45 minuten dauert, in 25 durchzupeitschen, damit wir anschliessend wenigstens 20 min für konkrete Fragestellungen hatten. Die SEO-Präsentation ist übrigens auf der Idealizer Seite aufrufbar.

Fotos von: X-Foto auf Flickr