T-shirt

Just bought this tarzan t-shirt!

Bad Losers

Some politicians really are bad losers. And they don’t fear to show it. The actual campaign against a elected member of the swiss government shows this. The ultimatum posted by some hard liners of the SVP against Eveline Widmer-Schlupf is incredible, disrespectful and mysogynic by itself. Some incredible results of this campaign:

1. The SVP showed a good result some county elections in spite of this campaign
2. A supporting website was a victim of a distributed denial of service attack

Update: Not a Denial of service attack, but may be an attack at the data base? From the website:

Die Melde- und Analysestelle Informationssicherung MELANI des Bundes hat die Logdateien des Servers analysiert und ist zum vorläufigen Schluss gekommen, dass am 9. April 2008 wahrscheinlich kein DDoS-Angriff auf http://www.forza-eveline.net stattgefunden hat. Dies im Gegensatz zum amerikanischen Hosting Provider, der von einem historischen Schlag von nie gesehenem Ausmass spricht

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Allerdings hat MELANI Indizien für einen möglicherweise erfolgreichen Angriff auf die Datenbank gefunden.

Vacation

Last week we spent in Mon close to Savognin. Boyzeler was the first time on skis and he does it quite well. But after a while he sure preferred playing with water, snow and stones, as he proved by taking this picture:

Besides skiing we also went sledding. On our way to the Alp Flix we made a fire in the snow. This the kids found particular funny, especially when M. showed them what to use to start the fire without paper. All in all week with a lot of fun!

Another Black Sheep

I got this post card last week. Really enjoyed it. Great to see that a lot of good stuff develop out of a a really bad campaign.

See also das-schwarze-schaf.ch