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Monthly Archive October, 2007

Settled foreign national

It seems as if these days are really eventful. Today I received the official confirmation of my rising in the Swiss “hierarchy of foreigners”. Effective today, I am a “settled foreign national” (or in official language Amtsdeutsch: Inhaber der Niederlassungsbewilligung C). This means that e.g. I will no longer be taxed according to the […]

Proud uncle

Besides the professional development, there’s more, even bigger things going on as well: As of 11:45h am today, I am the proud uncle of Merle Schulte. Mother and child are all well and the rest of the family is happy about and proud of the new family member.

GIAC - GCIA

In case you wonder what these acronyms mean:
Global Information Assurance Certification - GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst
If you’re interested, find out more here and here. And what is this all about? I’ve just passed the certification exams and so from now on (for the next four years at least),  I may call myself a GCIA. I’ve […]

Introducing the BT FON Community

British telecom (BT) and FON Community today announced that BT is partnering up with FON. While many telco’s run their own networks of wifi hotspots (e.g. Swisscom Mobile, T-Mobile) and probably consider the community their competitor, BT apparently goes a different route.
“We have integrated FON in BT and now more than more than 3 million […]


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