You have all been extremely patient with me! At long last I found a mechanism to put my photos online in a way that doesn’t clash with the rest of the layout (as previously under MovableType), thanks to WordPress and it’s many plugins. Speaking of plugs, I use here a WordPress module called NextGEN...
Read more →A 1,5m long squid weighting 4,2kg was washed ashore Koum-Kapi beach in Chania, Crete. A resident of the area saw the giant squid as he was trying to park his car. His son, who was accompanying him went straight to collect the squid, which is usually fished in deep waters in the Mediterranean. The...
Read more →The Greek authorities are finally going to be cracking down on misbehaving tourists in the Gouves-Chersonissos-Malia area this year. The three resorts, about 40 kilometers east of Iraklio, Crete, are probably the most popular holiday destinations for tourists in Crete, each year attracting hundreds of thousands of youngsters, mainly from Great Britain and the...
Read more →For the year 2008 the Greek government has implemented phases 2 and 3 of the planned tax reform program that the conservative ND (Nea Demokratia) party has initiated when they came to power in 2004. You might think of Greece as a poor country. You’d be wrong. As a matter of fact, Greece is...
Read more →OMG! It’s so thin! !(http://www.oriste.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/macbook-air.png) !(http://www.oriste.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/macbook-air-front.png) !(http://www.oriste.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/macbook-air-side.png) 😉 I’m sorry, Tom, I couldn’t resist.
Read more →Most of you probably know that I have been a big Apple fan for decades. My first interest was awoken while I was working at IBM in Brussels (1976-1981, big mainframes, big, big mainframes, water-cooled too), when I showed an article about the then popular Apple II to one of our technicians for whom...
Read more →So we had this relatively major quake with its epicenter in Leonidio measuring 6.2 last Sunday. To be precise at 37.16N and 22.64E, at a depth of 72km. A whole controversy broke out in the days thereafter about the role and functioning of the Greek seismographic services. What is strange to me is that...
Read more →An article in Athens News caught my eye today. According to it, Greeks gamble to the tune of 8% percent of Greece’s GDP, or larger than the market capitalisation of the Greek Telecom organisation (OTE). To be precise: more than 16 billion euros have been gambled away this year. Wow! The total population of...
Read more →One of the favorite pastimes that Yvonne and I share is discovering small, usually family-run, little tavernas where the food is prepared with love, the prices are honest, the atmosphere is authentic and were occasionally a musician spices up the food with Cretan music. If we have the good fortune of spending time there...
Read more →Ever since I used OTE a my service provider I have had an additional e-mail account with them, which somehow ended up as my main e-mail account@otenet.gr. This e-mail account is different from my main account which I use to log in to their network. Usually the e-mail account and the login account are...
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