You probably noticed that the previous entry contained Greek words. Oh? You didn’t? Well, that might be your computer’s fault. Which operating system…? Oh, forget that, just a silly joke (again). I’m trying to convince the software that I use to create these entries and which is also responsible for displaying this screen to...
Read more →Let me translate that for you. Τσικνοπέμπτη. That’s it. Today that is. Today is τσικνοπέμπτη. It is translated into “mardi gras” by one of the electronic dictionaries that my employer makes available to the staff. It’s just that it is not “mardi” today, it is “πέμπτη”, eh “pempti” for you, and that means “thursday”...
Read more →There is a new virus out! Maybe it’s a worm too! Or another infectuous disease, I don’t know. It’s not in full swing yet, but reportedly 25.000.000 machines are already infected. Compared to this, the MyDoom virus/worm strain is peanuts. The bugger is called incredimail and it’s the biggest pain in the lower back...
Read more →Living in another country can put a lot of strain on a person. One has to get acquainted with all these novel things, rules, behavior, laws, food, language, history, geography, you name it, everything is different from what one is used too. And then there is the weather! What a dog! How can anybody...
Read more →In case you’ve been wondering. A scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (home of Niklaus Wirth, another one of my heros) has discovered what he calls “global dimming”, according to this article. Basically it means that we have been getting 3% less light per decade over the last 30 years. That’s 10%...
Read more →I know I thanked all of you in a previous post for your generous contributions to our overall well being. It wasn’t maybe the most personalized “thank you” that I have ever fabricated, I realise. It’s sometimes very difficult to find the right approach. I’ve set up this weblog because I realised at the...
Read more →Man, this stinks! It’s over. The Year. 2003. It’s gone! Completely! Okay, almost gone, probably completely gone by the time you read this. It had just started. Now it’s over! This isn’t fair. I haven’t even begun yet! What is this? I want my money back! A full year’s worth, no penny less! Can...
Read more →Information indicates that terrorists abroad and in our own back-yard are anticipating near-term attacks that we believe will rival, or exceed, the attacks we had to endure last year around this time of the year. Intelligence gathered in the past 3 and a half minutes indicates that a wave of Powerpoint Season greetings is...
Read more →It seems we were just lucky, weather-wise, when we arrived here on Sunday morning. Allthough we had a little bit of rough weather at sea during the night, in the morning when we got off the ferry boat, the skies were clear and little later the sun was shining brightly. Monday at 8 o’clock...
Read more →We are back home, as of this morning. ‘t was brillig in Belgium. I don’t have the faintest idea what “brillig” means, but it was in Belgium, I’m sure of that. It was nice, sometimes even extremely nice, to see family and friends again — with apologies to those we couldn’t meet and thanks...
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