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The Activity Workshop aims to provide a source of information for a wide variety of activities from the strenuous to the not-so-strenuous.

Air
Skydiving - plummeting towards the Earth without a safety net
Helicopter flying - zooming, hovering and swooping
Paragliding - floating silently, high above the scenery
Gliding - soaring and roaring through invisible airscapes
Indoor
Puzzles & Games - test your logic skills or just wage war
Electronics - construct kits and build your own gadgets
Language - ponder languages or test your foreign vocabulary
Land
Via Ferrata - metal walkways and ladders high up in the cliffs
Mountain Boarding - offroad skateboards for airborne excitement
Lacrosse - two teams, two goals, armour, helmets, and funny stick things.
Land Yachting - wind-powered racing on 3 (or sometimes 2) wheels
Hiking - breathing the fresh mountain air, basking in the scenery
Website news:
the Translatinator for helping with translations;  a birthday reminder called Oops, Forgot;  two Firefox addons called TheCoordinator and MmaBlindfold;  Via Ferrata in Flims;  the Advent of Code;  ways to support the site;  a new hiking route crossing the Southeast of Switzerland;  it's 2025!;  version 25.2 of the GpsPrune application and its user guide;  trek planner for the Alpenpanoramaweg hiking route; 
Snow & Water
Snowboarding - floating on frozen surf, riding mountain-sized waves
Windsurfing - tacking, jibing and racing like the wind
Wakeboarding - Carving real waves with boat power
Ski touring - Skiing uphill away from the crowds
Canoeing - Riding the white water on inflatable kayaks
Other
GPS - all GPS-related stuff including GPS experiments and coordinate files
Software - free software to download and play with
Maths - playing around with numbers for fun
Books - a small but hopefully growing selection of ebooks

Whether you need a rush of death-defying adrenaline, a relaxing unwind from the world, or something inbetween, there should be something for you here!

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Advent of Code: what an adventure! We collected the stars, found the missing historian, and somehow saved Christmas for everyone? I think? Quite a blast, lots of nerve-wracking fun as always. This year I got an even worse final result of 2700+, but I did get 3 top-1000 finishes along the way. And I was within the first 600 people worldwide to collect all 500 stars! ☆.

That guy who used to be so cool: so Elon Musk is now an expert on government efficiency? Well I guess a man who pays $44bn for a company which he shortly later values at $19bn knows a thing or two about wasting money... Rather unfortunately, it appears that he knows nothing about the bills he's raging about, very little about US Politics in general, very very little about UK politics and now very very little about German, Italian and Dutch politics either. I understand that he's keen to get regulation breaks for his many business interests (tax breaks for Tesla, regulations for SpaceX and Neuralink, restriction of competition for Twitter etc), but isn't that exactly what is meant by "conflict of interest"?

... oh, and as a bonus, that self-praising nonsense he's spreading about Path of Exile 2 is just embarrassing!

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