Disclaimer: I didn’t write this, I wished that I had or that I could, but I didn’t and I can’t. This was passed on to me by a friend, sorry I don’t know the source or author, it speaks for itself though… I dedicate this to a friend in the U.S. who had tubes...
Read more →Believe it or not, the day before yesterday, exactly as promised, my brand new harddisk was delivered. It was a snap to install in my powerbook, took exactly 10 minutes and 43 seconds, timed on my swiss-precision mechanical desktop clock. And it’s fast! Boy, is this one fast harddisk!!! The fact that it is...
Read more →At a quarter past six, straight from the office, I was in the vendor’s shop. Michalis, the technician whom I had been dealing with, was waiting for me, clearly embarassed. I told him not to worry, but that I was now at the end of my patience. I offered 2 alternatives. Either they rang...
Read more →Do you remember the disk problems with my laptop? Well, here is the rest of the story. Sit back and shudder. To recap: during the last week of August my Macintosh Powerbook 667Mhz started acting strange: programs freezing when doing a lot of disk accesses, the disk making intermittent shrieking noises, and finally on...
Read more →You would just love to hear that from me, wouldn’t you? Well I have good news for you, Macs are actually cheaper than comparable Dells (to name just any run-of-the-mill manufacturer, which happens to be a favourite of one of my favourite correspondents, check the comments to previous articles), and they also happen to...
Read more →Last week the summer officially gave way to autumn, at least that’s what the calendar wants us to believe. It could have fooled me. During the weekend it was so hot that the pigeons fell off the roof. We went to Chania on Saturday morning and spend the early afternoon with Linda and Giorgos...
Read more →It looks like the Greek lifestyle doesn’t agree with a lot of electronic gear. I didn’t mention it before, but I haven’t had a lot of luck lately, electronically speaking. There was the defective battery in my Macintosh Powerbook back in spring. Small problem you would say, and it would be, except in Greece....
Read more →It seems I went into hiding one month too soon! The Olympic Games only started on August 13th, not on July 13th! How this could have escaped my attention I don’t know. Anyway, I am back now, one week early as it appears, since the Games are not over yet, terrified of course that...
Read more →I know, I know, the roof above the main stadium, the building contractors, the power surges, or worse: the power breaks, and to top it off, the terrorist treats, it’s all doom and gloom about the Olympic Games. You would almost be forgiven to doubt that anything goes well. Okay, you at least are...
Read more →Friday the Olympic Flame arrived in Iraklio. It should have been a day of glory! But it wasn’t. The following may look like a small incident to you now, but remember, so was the street riot after “Le muet de Portici” in Brussels in 1830. We know what disaster that lead to! Hereafter I...
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