I have this nifty little add-on in my Firefox browser called ForecastFox.

It basically displays the local weather forecast, including sexy little icons, in the status bar.

Something tells me I’ll be lighting a fire in our chimney, this week!

Just in case you happen to have been in a coma for the last year or have been busy doing something much more important than maintaning a blog, here’s the States’ answer to Paul Potts, winner of this year’s Britain’s Got Talent show.

BTW: she was 11 at the time of the contest!

I admit: I’m a nut!

I live in a country which produces the world’s best chocolate. Tourist’s from all over the world travel home with their suitcases crammed with souvenirs from Toblerone, Lindt or Cailler.

And I just ate my very last piece of MY favorite: Cadbury‘s Fruit and Nut..

Swiss IS the best, of course. Nothing beats a bar of Lindt’s Cognaq-filled milk chocolate while lying on the sofa watching the latest “Grey’s Anatomy” episode… apart from Cadbury’s Fruit and Nut!

So I went surfing..

I know I can get the stuff in most european holiday destinations, which I ultimatively do (quantity varies depending on Pina’s presence), but as we’re planning on visiting the “OstSee” this summer… I went surfing.

And, tadahhh, came up with a wonderful place: BRITSHOP.CH

And it’s all there:

• My Cadbury’s
• Branston Pickle
• Milk Chocolate Hob-Nobs
• Ribena
• Rose’s Lime Cordial

All delivered to your doorstep by SwissPost.

All I now have to do is find a place to purchase my favorite Curried Fruit Chutney (great with Raclette) and I’ll be as happy as a sandman!

This week, TAMedia, one of Switzerland’s largest publishers, announced that their weekly news magazine, FACTS, would cease to exist at the end of this month.

Being a long-standing reader (I’ve got to train my German somehow..) and, thus, a subscriber I was wondering what they would offer as means of compensation.

I mean, it’s not like they were going bust or anything. And they probably publish a myriad other mags.

“The” letter was  delivered today stating that:

1. My subscription had been prolonged by a massive 20%!
2. I was now a happy subscriber to…. the Sonntagszeitung.

Makes real sense: most people already have a Sunday paper and those who prefer to browse through current events and colour pictures during the course of a week will naturally be really happy to switch to a Zürich-orientated weekly newspaper!

And the 20%: wow! So basically, once I decide not to renew, I still get it for another 2 months..

Yet another management brain-fart.

And yet another challenge for “yours truely”:

Dear Sir or Madam, many thanks for your generous offer. However, as I am a dedicated SonntagsBlick reader (or rather, my wife is; I prefer the Financial Times), I would much prefer if I was offered a choice of one of your other publications. Failing this, please transfer the remainder of my subscription to my bank account…

And all that in German, of course; thanks to my long-standing loyalty to Facts.

Personally I tend to stick to YouTube when searching for online video clips.

But I’ve often wished there was a search engine which could browse through MySpace, GoogleVideo, MetaCafe and.. YouTube before presenting the results in a sexy way.

Enters ULinkx which does just that.

Although I’m still perplexed about that cricket tab…