Read this in the Guardian: Prince Charles was last night following the punishing schedule of life on Mount Athos, the remote religious community in northern Greece which he has undertaken to support financially. The prince, who was introduced to the male-only enclave by his cousin Constantine, the former king of Greece, will remain there...
Read more →After I installed the MT-Blacklist to keep the comment spammers away from this weblog I had a couple of quiet days, spam-fighting wise. Not for long though. For over a week now, a certain Jay, sometimes calling himself Ray, both at home at this most productive of all spammers’ nests called Hotmail (yes, another...
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 →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 →Beautiful day today. Yvonne and I went to the open air market at the harbour to buy our weekly portion of vitamines, in the form of vegetables mainly. We had a glass of wine at the cantina, together with 2 souvlaki’s each. Always a nice atmosphere at the cantinas. We love it more in...
Read more →The last 5 to 7 weeks have been hell, blogwise. Somehow I got on the list of a gang of blogspammers. Blogspammers are people who exploit the comment function in blog entries to fill them up with URLs for their sites. They do this because this advances their position in the search engines: the...
Read more →Once upon a time there were numerous search engines. They all lived more or less happily together in a beautiful area of cyberspace, appropriately called Dick and Harry’s Search Engine Repair Center of America and the Outer Colonies. Then one day trouble began. Nobody remembers when or how exactly. Some elders, living on the...
Read more →Some people have very diplomatically brought to my attention the fact that I never said anything about what it was exactly that I did here in Crete. I checked the archives of the Chronicles, because I thought I had narrated about that. Apparently, if I did, I only did it mentally. So, to make...
Read more →Many people have asked us what we thought of the Olympic Games, just in case you only just now crawl out from under some rock, this year to be held in Athens (some of them games also take place in Thessaloniki, Patras and our own Iraklio, none in Olympos though, funny enough). Most of...
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