Stavros was brooding, I could see that from afar. He’s Andreas’ father, past 70 (but he won’t say how much), and I chat with him regularly on my way to the office in the morning. When I asked him what was wrong, he only grumbled something unintelligible and nodded his head towards his daughter...
Read more →You heard of Sasser, haven’t you? What, you didn’t? Where have you been the last 24 hours? I hope you’re not that irresponsible a person that you don’t check the virus warning bulletins every now and then. You should, you know, because there is danger lurking out there all the time. There is only...
Read more →Pauline, Paul, Joëlle and Bram made it to Chersonissos, albeit a weebit late, but they made it. The plane which was supposed to land around one o’clock at night (Saturday to Sunday) on Kazantzakis Airport in Iraklio, took off again just before the wheels touched the ground. Without a word of explanation they flew...
Read more →Everything they do differently here. I’ve never heard people wishing each other a “nice first of May”. Here they do that starting on the eve of May 1st, and all through the day itself. It’s very nice. By the way, people also wish each other a “nice week” on Monday and a “nice month”...
Read more →Good thing that Felicien reminded me this morning that Yvonne should be celebrating or we would have been terribly embarrassed and not a little ashamed for having missed “KONINGINNEDAG” today! We are proud as it is that we remembered that tomorrow is a holiday here in Greece and that — what with it being...
Read more →I have 5 e-mail accounts and they fill up with spam faster than I can empty them. Lately it looks like they are targetting my .Mac account, that’s the e-mail account with wonderful integration into your operating system. That is, if you are a Macintosh user. Anyway, for those that didn’t know, I am...
Read more →We’ve had some pretty depressing weather in the last 4 days. The tourists certainly didn’t like it. Today the sun was shining bright. On the Olympic front the temperature is rising across the board: the IOC takes out insurance against the Games not happening, Mark Spitz of olympic swimming fame thinks the US team...
Read more →Today I smoked a sigarette. I don’t know why. I had this craving, totally out of the blue, since this morning. Nothing out of the ordinary happened to justify this. I’m a bit excited that Paul, Pauline, Joëlle and Bram are coming next weekend, but that’s hardly a reason to smoke. All four of...
Read more →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...
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