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 →I told you that I was trying to entice Aretússa to write down the little stories that she keeps telling us so that I could publish them on my weblog. Well, Aretússa didn’t hesitate long. This morning I found the following in my mailbox. Without further ado, and by way of introducing Aretússa, I...
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...
Read more →Welcome, welcome! You’re looking at my new blog! Actually it is the same blog, but the software that powers it is new: I changed from MovableType to WordPress. The reason? It was about time that I upgraded my old MovableType installation which hadn’t changed since 2004 and which was creaking at its seams. Moreover...
Read more →I’m back from my visit to Lefkogia, accompanied by Renata, the civil engineer (not building engineer as I mentioned in the previous article). A civil engineer (‘POLITIKOS MIKANIKOS’) is usually hired to review a specific plot and to ensure that boundaries are within the description in a title document. They can also be consulted...
Read more →Lefkogia is a small village with 239 inhabitants. Its name comes from the white (=lefko) and land (=gea) and obviously has to do with the color of the land of the area. To the east, both Preveli Palm Beach (Limni) as well as the monastery of Preveli can be accessed from the village. To...
Read more →Ahem. Well it’s a Frequently Asked Question section of my weblog. All of a sudden it seemed like a good idea, since a) I get a lot of similar questions that are asked frequently and b) this might bring some new life into this old carcass. We’ll see how it goes. To tell you...
Read more →It looks like we are going to make it by Sunday night: the kitchen stuff has been completely moved to the new house, the bedroom is fully over, so is most of the living room, except for 2 arm chairs. What’s left is what we call our “office room”, with the computer gear, printers,...
Read more →Once upon a time…. yes, it’s time for a fairy tale again ….there was a guy who had the nerve to think that he was good at problem solving. Let’s call him Sol for the sake of giving him a name. Not that the name has any importance or relevance to this story, it’s...
Read more →…that I kept you up to date, wouldn’t you say? I’m terribly sorry if I had you worried for a while there, but I’m really fine. It was just writer’s block. Or something like that. You can call it procrastination too. I just couldn’t bring myself to writing. I had lost any and all...
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