Read in ZDNet UK News the following snippet: Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a US company that has been awarded the contract to provide IT security at the Olympics, SAIC also plans to set up an electronic fence around the Olympics, using infrared and high-resolution cameras, and vehicle tracking systems. An airborne surveillance...
Read more →The only ballad that I know of Metallica. It’s one of Yvonne’s favorites. It’s playing right now while Yvonne gets ready for a meeting with a friend. It’s four o’clock in the afternoon. We just got back from our Sunday morning drive, searching for suitable houses or plots. We didn’t find anything worth mentioning...
Read more →Beautiful day today. Yvonne and I went to the open air market at the harbour to buy our weekly portion of vitamines, in the form of vegetables mainly. We had a glass of wine at the cantina, together with 2 souvlaki’s each. Always a nice atmosphere at the cantinas. We love it more in...
Read more →The last 5 to 7 weeks have been hell, blogwise. Somehow I got on the list of a gang of blogspammers. Blogspammers are people who exploit the comment function in blog entries to fill them up with URLs for their sites. They do this because this advances their position in the search engines: the...
Read more →Not much blogging going on lately, huh? I know. I know. Entirely my fault. I’ve been wrestling with it for weeks now. Mentally, I mean. I’m trying to come up with things that are worthwhile reading. That’s where the problem lies. I ususally reject every idea that pops up in my head as not...
Read more →We are off to Matala again for the extended Easter weekend. Drop in at the Coral hotel if you are in the neighbourhood. On Sunday around noon just look behind the white building, where you’ll find us roasting the lamb above the charcoal…
Read more →Net zoals de 2 voorgaande jaren vindt ook dit jaar een “Open Keramiek Atelier route” plaats bij pottenbakkers & keramisten in Nederlands en Belgisch Limburg op 17 en 18 april van 10 tot 17 uur. Buiten de mogelijkheid om verschillende ateliers te bezoeken, is er ook een overzichtstentoonstelling te Vaals (NL) in De Kopermolen....
Read more →Once upon a time there were numerous search engines. They all lived more or less happily together in a beautiful area of cyberspace, appropriately called Dick and Harry’s Search Engine Repair Center of America and the Outer Colonies. Then one day trouble began. Nobody remembers when or how exactly. Some elders, living on the...
Read more →Some people have very diplomatically brought to my attention the fact that I never said anything about what it was exactly that I did here in Crete. I checked the archives of the Chronicles, because I thought I had narrated about that. Apparently, if I did, I only did it mentally. So, to make...
Read more →Many people have asked us what we thought of the Olympic Games, just in case you only just now crawl out from under some rock, this year to be held in Athens (some of them games also take place in Thessaloniki, Patras and our own Iraklio, none in Olympos though, funny enough). Most of...
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