Remember the strike of the garbage collectors a couple of weeks ago? We are slowly entering a period where every non-priviliged Greek will feel the effects of the latest strike where it hurts most: on his diner table and in his (parked out of necessity) car(s). I’m talking of course about the strike of...
Read more →As I mentioned before, we live in a small street off Leofóro Knossoú, which is the main road from the center of Iraklio to the archeological site of Knossós. It goes all the way down from the Palace to the sea. We usually call it Knossoú Road, except in the winter when we rename...
Read more →Well, I fixed them, the permalinks. A permalink of course is a URL that points to a specific blog entry even after the entry has passed from the front page into the blog archives, or — in my case — to a completely different system. Because a permalink remains unchanged indefinitely, it is less...
Read more →The time has come to dump Internet Explorer. No, this is not your humble but dedicated Macintosh fanatic who says so, this is an established MCSE, who happens to like quite a few of Microsoft’s products. His argument is simple: the benefits of using IE are too few – and the faults too great...
Read more →I have been strugling with Cascading Style Sheets for the last couple of weeks. Somehow I couldn’t get my mind wrapped about a lot of the syntactic rules. Slowly I began to seriously doubt if I “still had it”. I had read tons of information, dumped numerous examples to my local disks for closer...
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