There is some controversy going on in Greece about the anonymity of bloggers. I noticed it first in the local newspaper Nea Kriti which ran an article under the title “Βάζει φρένο …” which is translated by Google as “It puts a damper..”. Since, as usual, I couldn’t make sense of the automatic Google...
Read more →Oh my, I’ve gone all philosophical an moralistic on you in my last post. Never mind, let’s blame it on the weather. Or something. The thing that brought this along was a memory flash that I had, from a period some 50 years ago. I was in my first year at primary school in...
Read more →I’ve been thinking a lot lately — with more than enough time on my hands now, I was bound to do that sooner than later — about what it is that makes this world of ours so messed-up. No need to give you examples of this messed-upiness, there are plenty of examples around you....
Read more →Everybody’s been talking about snow on the Intahrnet today. A friend from Belgium even sent me an e-mail this morning inquiring about the situation. Quite frankly, I had no idea what they were all talking about. Here, about 1 kilometer north of the archaeological site of Knossós and some 4 kilometers south of the...
Read more →Whoa! Whoa! Enough already! We’ve had no less than 6 rumblings in the underground in the last 2 hours, all in the same area, 3 of them above 6 on the Richter scale. Someone’s throwing a hell of a Valentine party down there! Time LAT LONG Depth KM Mag 12:08:56 36.44 N 22.03 E...
Read more →For weeks now this scandal has been capturing the Greek minds. It seemingly started out as a tabloid-worthy sex affair between aging high-ranking male employer and young female collaborator, something not likely to turn many Greek heads. Then it got uglier. Then more uglier, and morer uglier even. Now the international press has gotten...
Read more →“Local Administration employees (OTA) are staging a work stoppage from 11:00 till the end of their shifts, on Thursday, February 7, in protest against the cut off of the bonus for users of computers. They are also staging a protest demonstration in front of the Interior Ministry at 12:00 on the same day while...
Read more →For those who keep track of this, we have been going through some extremely rough weather lately. The whole of Crete has been hit with strong – 10 Beaufort – winds, with the usual, to-be-expected results: roofs flying off, electricity poles (wooden, waddayathink?) uprooted or snapped, cables broken, the works. Large areas have been...
Read more →It has never been easy in Greece to be a Macintosh user. Most people — or businesses for that matter — have never even heard of Macintosh. I remember when I went shopping for a bank and inquired if their online banking system was compatible with Macintosh, most banks replied with “Huh?”. When I...
Read more →You might have scratched your head a few times in the past wondering why news about me and my new home country wasn’t more forthcoming. Why wouldn’t I write about what was going on in this country? Something must be happening here, won’t it? Why didn’t you hear my perspective on these events? Indeed...
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