Patrick C. Price

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Recently I was at the Museum für Gestaltung, where there’s a exposition of Michel Compte, who is one of the worlds most renouned photographers and a Swiss citizen.

Here are some of the pictures that where ehibited. If you have a chance to go there in person, you should do so. It’s really interesting.

About 14 yeras ago, I started my interest in the web. As i started hearing about something called “email” and started to realize the possibility to communicate electronically with one another. It was then, when I thought, wow, that’s exactly what I would love to be able doing with my relatives in the US.

Well, it’s taken a bit more than 14 years, and I still don’t have all the e-mail addresses I imagined, and many of the one’s I got, are no longer valid.

None-the-less, this week, I was contacted by at least 4 people through Facebook or have contacted them myself, which I had long believed to be “lost contacts”.

Sometimes you meet people in life, who you instantly feel connected to and yet, you know, although you’d really like to, you will most likely never see them again.

Until now, whenever I met someone like that, I would use one of my favorite sayings: “You always meet twice in life!” (which has already happened to me many times and also has served as inspiration to meet people again).

Today I think Facebook has killed this wonderful saying.

In our modern  world, we can connect and become friends on social networks such as Facebook, whenever and whereever  we may meet, be it yet so remote.

I guess, as of now, we will part by saying “see you around” rather than, “if chance will have it, we will meet again”.

Thanks Facebook for killing my favorite exit-line!

If we take this thought or development a bit further, we soon won’t be using text-based status-updates anymore, but will rather be using near real-time video updates or actual live streams instead.

Well, I guess I’ll see you around…

After the Simpsons recently declared newspapers as dying, now also the Daily Show produced a movie called “End Times”.

My favorite quote of the movie: “Show me one thing in there, that happened today.”

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
End Times
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Newt Gingrich Unedited Interview

I’m curious to see, how long it will take, till we don’t have any printed newspapers any more.

During the Sept. 2007 Swiss National Publisher Event in Lucerne, I placed a bet with Ursi Klein, that by 2013 we wouldn’t have any printed newspaper in Switzerland with a circulation of 20’000. Well, I guess we still got 4 years till then. Let’s see, what happens

Mad Magazine just brought a great cover. I think, this is how I would feel, if I where Barack Obama right now.

The internet contains many channels, one of them, the predominant one, being HTML -> the web.

HTML stands for Hyper-Text-Markup-Language and is the Code, with which your browser is told, how to interpret the page and make it visible. To see a websites HTML click CTRL-U in your broswer or right-click on the page you want to check and select “show page source”.

HTML is a nice language, as it is rather simple to understand.

Everything starts with a and ends with a .

The “/” marks the end to that “command” started earlier. With this, you can always see from where to where a certain command, function, script, font, etc. goes.

Here is a simple example, I hope you will be able to follow the code:

You can learn more about HTML on HTMLcode-Tutorial or on Wikipedia

Well well well, ho ho ho….Many people, many things to thank for. Many nice events during this year. So let me cut it short and send you this unique card…