It’s over, and it’s obvious I didn’t win. I never even came close to that. To be honest with you, after the first milestone (one iPod to win) I concluded that I was no match for the other players. I did get to position 101 on May 23, then I sank faster than a...
Read more →It’s getting hot here. Very much so. Well beyond 35 degrees, Celsius that is. For you Fahrenheiters, that’s the equivalent of 95 euh… points or something. Yvonne and I went to the south coast on Sunday to cool off, after trying the beach east of Iraklio on Saturday. Too many waves there, all red...
Read more →The coast guard today evacuated around 380 passengers from a ferry due to leave Piraeus after receiving an anonymous telephone call warning that there was a bomb aboard the vessel. However, the passengers were allowed back aboard the Marina about an hour later after a search revealed no explosives. Passengers running late for their...
Read more →The time has come to dump Internet Explorer. No, this is not your humble but dedicated Macintosh fanatic who says so, this is an established MCSE, who happens to like quite a few of Microsoft’s products. His argument is simple: the benefits of using IE are too few – and the faults too great...
Read more →School’s out for summer School’s out forever School’s been blown to pieces Well, not exactly, maybe not forever, but today marks the end of the school year here in Greece. I passed a few schools when on the bus this morning, and all of them had the school yard filled with pupils, for one...
Read more →From BoingBoing: On June 15, a federal grand jury will convene in upstate New York to consider possible bioterrorism charges against University at Buffalo art professor Steve Kurtz and the Critical Art Ensemble, an internationally-known hactivist collective. From the CAE Defense Fund web site: “Early morning of May 11, Steve Kurtz awoke to find...
Read more →Blunder! Blunder! Blunder! How could I have forgotten to mention that this other fast-moving, high-powered, steam-rolling (how on earth does one roll steam?) invasion force that goes by the name of G&T Productions (just a cover for their real identity Frans-and-Nadine) are also preparing their second coming in a couple of weeks?
Read more →At 7:30 sharp this morning I entered the Customs Services building. Lies (not to be associated with previous statistics, but short for “Alice”), who had volunteered (after only just a teensy bit of persuasion from my part, basically only needed because of the early hour) to act as my translator in case I ran...
Read more →With only 5 minutes delay, the plane from Brussels had landed on Kazantsakis Airport in Iraklio. In no time Lucien and Reinhilde collected their luggage and we were out in the parking. After cursing the official who had slipped a parking ticket behind my screenwipers, we set off and drove to Spiliá, some 8...
Read more →Today I met a British pensioner at Carola’s coffee house who told me a very funny story: his son, now a forensic psychologist, married a Cretan girl some 20 years ago and came to live here with his new family. He was employed at Chania airport for a couple of years, I don’t remember...
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