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 →Η Ελλάδα υπό το μυδέν. Greece is living a first for as long as anybody can remember. Temperatures dropped below zero (celsius) last night. Thursday was still sunny and relatively warm. In the evening (when the Tsiknopémpti celebrations were in full swing, remember) it started raining. That turned into snow in the higher parts...
Read more →Let me translate that for you. Τσικνοπέμπτη. That’s it. Today that is. Today is τσικνοπέμπτη. It is translated into “mardi gras” by one of the electronic dictionaries that my employer makes available to the staff. It’s just that it is not “mardi” today, it is “πέμπτη”, eh “pempti” for you, and that means “thursday”...
Read more →In case you’ve been wondering. A scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (home of Niklaus Wirth, another one of my heros) has discovered what he calls “global dimming”, according to this article. Basically it means that we have been getting 3% less light per decade over the last 30 years. That’s 10%...
Read more →After the ch’i gung exercises Yvonne went to feed Birte’s cats upstairs while I poured water in the kettle and put the kettle on the electric stove. I put the nescafé powder in 2 cups and while the water warmed up I went out on the balcony (18 meters of it) to remove the...
Read more →Boy, this is difficult! Coming up with something to write about in your blog every day! Nothing worthwhile happened today, it was just an ordinary day! What’s there to write about? Well, I’ll write about that then. Just an ordinary day. It makes a good title too! What’s an ordinary day like? For me,...
Read more →I just read this article on Microsoft in the New York Times where Bill Gates himself reveals two interesting numbers: first is that there are about 600 million Microsoft customers. That’s a nice piece of income for mr. Gates. The second number is that approximately — by the Bill’s own admission — 5% of...
Read more →I’ve had a serious crisis just now, “just now” meaning the past 72 hours. Most of those 72 hours were spent flat in bed, or on other horizontal surfaces that weren’t too hot. I couldn’t sit, I couldn’t stand, I could hardly walk. It had all started 3 weeks earlier when lifting one of...
Read more →Thursday already! Time flies when you’re having a good time! It’s hard to believe that I have been here for 2 months already. Just one more week and I will fly back to Belgium to make preparations for the final move. Actually I haven’t been doing a lot this week. I was terrible weather,...
Read more →I hadn’t taken all these risks of driving off a cliff or getting stuck in the snow for no good reason. I had come to this region (the Messará valley, see my previous post) because there is a chance that I will be able to work here. The idea is that, because of the...
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