For weeks now this scandal has been capturing the Greek minds. It seemingly started out as a tabloid-worthy sex affair between aging high-ranking male employer and young female collaborator, something not likely to turn many Greek heads. Then it got uglier. Then more uglier, and morer uglier even. Now the international press has gotten...
Read more →It has never been easy in Greece to be a Macintosh user. Most people — or businesses for that matter — have never even heard of Macintosh. I remember when I went shopping for a bank and inquired if their online banking system was compatible with Macintosh, most banks replied with “Huh?”. When I...
Read more →You might have scratched your head a few times in the past wondering why news about me and my new home country wasn’t more forthcoming. Why wouldn’t I write about what was going on in this country? Something must be happening here, won’t it? Why didn’t you hear my perspective on these events? Indeed...
Read more →You have all been extremely patient with me! At long last I found a mechanism to put my photos online in a way that doesn’t clash with the rest of the layout (as previously under MovableType), thanks to WordPress and it’s many plugins. Speaking of plugs, I use here a WordPress module called NextGEN...
Read more →For the year 2008 the Greek government has implemented phases 2 and 3 of the planned tax reform program that the conservative ND (Nea Demokratia) party has initiated when they came to power in 2004. You might think of Greece as a poor country. You’d be wrong. As a matter of fact, Greece is...
Read more →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 →An article in Athens News caught my eye today. According to it, Greeks gamble to the tune of 8% percent of Greece’s GDP, or larger than the market capitalisation of the Greek Telecom organisation (OTE). To be precise: more than 16 billion euros have been gambled away this year. Wow! The total population of...
Read more →Day 12. Get this: it is Sunday, moreover it is a special Sunday, Epiphany, which is celebrated all over Greece, the highlight being the diving for the cross, where young (and not so young) men dive into the ice cold water to retrieve a cross that the priest has thrown in. This typically happens...
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...
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