Patrick C. Price

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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!

So today, was my last day at Scout24. I held a nice presentation and all went great. Had a nice chat with an interesting SEO guy on the train.The last couple of weeks, I was working on my start-up and have gone through a great course called ‘venture training’, offered by http://www.venturelab.ch. The guy running the show is Dominik Tarolli. Doing a great job at it, he provides young swiss startups with know-how and network.

I met a few cool guys on the way. eLoad24 is a companyproviding web-users with access to condensed knowhow. LogCut.com is a micromedia-commercialization-assistant . Need an airport shuttle? Use transferbus.net for european airport transfers. Social collaboration? amazee.com might be what you are looking for…

Anyhow, it’s interesting to learn, how the visual enfavors perception.

A friend of mine recently had a IM-mood-tag: ‘the future is here to take’. Let’s see, what the future brings.

As in the past 3 years, I attended the Open Forum of the WEF this year again. My posts on the topics covered are in the “politics” category of my blog.

It was fun and as always, a very entertaining weekend. Novalis, a student friend of mine, and I had a Suite at the Hotel Europe right on the Promenade in Davos.

Usually you get to meet cool people at their piano bar. Two years ago, when we were there, Arthur Andersen had an invitation only cigars & jazz event we snook in to… This year it was open to the public, by the time we got there.

I was great fun mingling among people like former Swiss ambassador to Germany, Thomas Borer, who was accompanied by Victor Vexelberg, one of the Russian oligarchs, who is now increasingly based in Switzerland.

Also standing next to Google’s Eric Schmidt, while entering the Davos Casino, and seeing him sent away, as he wasn’t carrying his passport with him, was kinda fun. Imagine a casino sending away one of the worlds most influential persons, because he could not present proper ID…

A great chat with a guy from the US Homeland Security Department, while having Fondue at a local Chalet was another unforgetable chat and allowed a new view on the current events in the middle east.

If you ever have time in January to attend, you should definitely plan a nice week of skiing vacation in Davos and while doing so, visit the WEF, you’ll really enjoy it!

Hmm,.. What a subject….

My Dad once wrote a ‘poem’ which he recited recently:

‘That throbbing bolt, that binds together love’

Speaking about women in my last post, I just ended up separating from my relationship of three years a few weeks ago.

So there I am, on the Canary Islands, a place i’ve already been to approx. 10 times. A party island par exellance, yet alone. Every two people I see are happy, holding hands, enjoying their vacation. Then again, I am too. I love the idea of having another week off, once I get home.

But strange, isn’t it, that although I’ve been here several times, I have never been lucky here (apart from the girl I once brought along with me, so that doesn’t count) ever before.

I have tonight and two more nights ahead of me, but will I be able to brake the spell, respectively my historical track record?

Well, who cares. I just finished reading a book given to me: ’11 Minutes’ by Paolo Coelho. In it, he tells the story of a young Brasilian, who comes to Switzerland and works as a prostitute for a few years, sarching for love, until…. (read the book, it only took me one day, and I’m a slow reader, but I’m not gonna tell you the end…)

Anyhow, one of the conclusions is, 11 minutes is the time people copulate on average and the entire world turns around these 11 minutes.

But these 11 minutes are portrayed more as an embrancement (or huging) of two souls, rather than just copulation. So is sex a sheer mirror of actual love? Or is sex percieved by men for less than it is actually worth? Why does it seem to mean so much more to us men, than to you women on average, yet you women betray us men just as often as men betray women?

So what is it, women search in being intimate with men, that differentiates from us men being intimate with women?

Is it just, that with time we neglect you? Or is it more profound, as in ’11 Minutes’, that most men are self-focused, not attentive enough of your female needs?

Isn’t it a sort of bondage we are all looking for? Isn’t it that throbbing bolt, that binds toghether love?

I was invited to the Robbie Williams concert in Bern yesterday, which I had already attended in Paris in July. A great show! Thank you faroTV for the invitation.

I will post a little more on the Paris concert and the story to it in a while.