Tomorrow is August 15th. That’s about the most important day on the calendar in Greece. For the pagans amongst you, the Assumption of the Virgin Maria is celebrated on that day. In Greece, that’s bigger than Christmas or even Easter. It’s also the name-day of all those named after Maria. That includes those called...
Read more →Well, we’re back online, sort off, as there is no line. Remember Einstein’s cat mentioned last month? When asked to explain the then new phenomenon of radio, Einstein is said to have answered “You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and...
Read more →I just read this article on Microsoft in the New York Times where Bill Gates himself reveals two interesting numbers: first is that there are about 600 million Microsoft customers. That’s a nice piece of income for mr. Gates. The second number is that approximately — by the Bill’s own admission — 5% of...
Read more →We interrupt this program once more to let you know that we’ve had some problems with our internet connections lately. Some problems! Fact of the matter is that we have been virtually connectionless for the last 3 weeks. Or as Onslow would say, “I’m surrounded by no internet at all”. It looks like very...
Read more →I’ve had a serious crisis just now, “just now” meaning the past 72 hours. Most of those 72 hours were spent flat in bed, or on other horizontal surfaces that weren’t too hot. I couldn’t sit, I couldn’t stand, I could hardly walk. It had all started 3 weeks earlier when lifting one of...
Read more →If there is one thing to mention about this week it’s that it was soooooo hot, my brain was melting. The internet weather stations have all reported temperatures in excess of 30 degrees celsius. In this office that I am about to leave any minute now it felt more like 40 degrees… On wednesday...
Read more →As you are all preparing to invade this island where I have found shelter (Frans and Nadine just arrived in Chania by the way), I thought it time to give some friendly advise as to the code of conduct while driving on our scenic roads. So here are a few rules, which — if...
Read more →You wouldn’t believe what happened to me today. I had been wondering about it for some time now, but as the days and the weeks passed I had given up on it. I had come to assume that it just would never happen, extraordinary as that may seem. It must have been, for sure,...
Read more →Dr. Norman Doidge, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, has identified among the telltale symptoms of fanatics: an intolerance of dissent, a doctrine that is riddled with contradictions, the belief that one’s cause has been blessed or even commanded by God, and the use of reinforcement techniques such as repetition to spread...
Read more →How is that? My fourth posting in one day. My friend Lucinda asked me to do a bit of promotion for this. Pascal designed the website. So, let me ask you this: if you were looking — just hypothetically of course — for a reasonably priced place to stay in London and you’d prefer...
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