I hadn’t treated my statistics very nice the last time, what with me putting them together with a bunch of lies, worse even, damn lies. To show my appreciation for them I have created a new nice graph, hereafter. I am of course extremely pleased with the results. Two major milestones have been reached:...
Read more →After their succesful offensive in April last year, Lucien and Reinhilde are planning a new attack on our shores next weekend, in commemoration of that other great invasion that took place 60 years ago, give or take a few days… To be honest, they are a bit late this year, following in the footsteps...
Read more →The ferry arrived a little late in Patras. At 3 o’clock at night we had docked in Igoumenitsa, meaning that we were still on track then. Something must have happened thereafter, but nobody informed nobody. At around 12 at noon we drove off the ramp, one and a half hour behind schedule. We dropped...
Read more →Not much of an entry today. I’m too depressed. I read too many rotten war stories, analyses, justifications, explications, spin doctoring, clarifications. I saw too many rotten photographs today. You’ll have to excuse me. Tomorrow will be better.
Read more →Yes, yes, I know you are all dying to know how I am doing in the hottest SEO compettion of the year. Well, I have good news. As I previously reported I got to position 127 of 109.000 a week ago. Then my nigritude ultramarine page tumbled fast and steadily to stay more or...
Read more →Wired has a nice article about and an overview of RSS readers, also called news aggregators. From the article: These programs are hybrids of a Web browser and an e-mail client, allowing Web users to peruse hundreds of information sources in one place. Instead of surfing dozens of sites for the latest news or...
Read more →Do you remember when I wrote about the Greek traffic rules, or rather their non-existence in this part of the world, this time around last year? Well, it turns out that the Greek system is a better system. Hey, how can it not be, these Cretan guys are thousands of years ahead of us....
Read more →It’s amazing how many things we take for granted. Until they are taken away from us. Take water, for instance, or rather, take water away, for instance. That’s what happened on Monday morning. Yvonne was about to take a shower when the water all of a sudden stopped. I went to the cellar to...
Read more →Because there is more to life than nigritude ultramarine, Irak or the Olympic Games, I would like to point you to Winged Sandals, a Greek Mythology website produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in association with The University of Melbourne’s Centre for Classics and Archaeology. Maybe they can correct the historical bias you are...
Read more →At 8:15 this morning, with the sun rising low in my back, I was driving on the national road from Iraklio towards Rethimno. I do this every Monday and Tuesday. This stretch of the national road is the only part where there are 2 lanes in each direction, with a concrete wall dividing the...
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