This is the sequel to my previous article iPhone 3G lands in Greece, describing my first experiences with the iPhone 3G in Greece. Disclaimer: this is not a product review, I don’t even try to pretend to give you a balanced report of the iPhone 3G. That has been done many times, and there...
Read more →Yesterday at 16:49 I got an e-mail message in my inbox from Vodafone, the chosen carrier for the iPhone in Greece. This was “an advanced warning” announcing that the next day, August 22nd, they would officially start selling the iPhone 3G all over Greece. Advanced indeed. To be sure that I wouldn’t be making...
Read more →I recently volunteered to assist in the migration of a wordpress.com hosted blog to a self-hosted installation of the open source wordpress CMS. As far as the technical aspects were concerned all went pretty smooth. The challenge appeared to be to make the self-hosted site look exactly like the wordpress.com hosted blog.
Read more →Back in 2003 when I just arrived here in Crete, at a time where 64Kbps ISDN was called “broadband”, I couldn’t really afford to spend too much time hanging out on the internet. I just made short connections to download my e-mail and my newsgroup subscription (anybody remember newsgroups?) and uploaded my pre-written postings...
Read more →There is some controversy going on in Greece about the anonymity of bloggers. I noticed it first in the local newspaper Nea Kriti which ran an article under the title “Βάζει φρένο …” which is translated by Google as “It puts a damper..”. Since, as usual, I couldn’t make sense of the automatic Google...
Read more →Everybody’s been talking about snow on the Intahrnet today. A friend from Belgium even sent me an e-mail this morning inquiring about the situation. Quite frankly, I had no idea what they were all talking about. Here, about 1 kilometer north of the archaeological site of Knossós and some 4 kilometers south of the...
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 →Last night, at 22:40 my ADSL line came back to life, after having shut down around 17:00. OTE finally switched me back to 4Mbps. I guess kyría Ioanna came through for me after all. The bumpy 24Mbps ride seems to be over. Thanks for your sympathies, everybody. Blog conversion progress I’ve added Tom’s biography...
Read more →Day 13. I went down to the city centre today to plead with kyría Ioanna (the new DSL tsarina) to speed up the process of downgrading me to 4Mbps. She really did her best, talking to various persons on the phone, to make my case a priority. I’m now back home for 3 hours...
Read more →You remember how I mentioned a few days ago that we just put some inflatable mattresses on top of our spread-out tent and call that “camping”? It was not looking too good for our upcoming “vacation” this year. A couple of weeks ago we were invited by Giorgos and Maria to join them in...
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