Back in January 2003, when I was preparing to drive off from Kleine Spouwen to Iraklio, I used a route planner on the internet to give me some guidance on how to drive to my destination. I don’t remember anymore which website I used, but it definitely wasn’t mappoint.msn.com. And a good thing too...
Read more →Do you remember the disk problems with my laptop? Well, here is the rest of the story. Sit back and shudder. To recap: during the last week of August my Macintosh Powerbook 667Mhz started acting strange: programs freezing when doing a lot of disk accesses, the disk making intermittent shrieking noises, and finally on...
Read more →It looks like the Greek lifestyle doesn’t agree with a lot of electronic gear. I didn’t mention it before, but I haven’t had a lot of luck lately, electronically speaking. There was the defective battery in my Macintosh Powerbook back in spring. Small problem you would say, and it would be, except in Greece....
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 →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 →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 →Okay folks, it was a long journey, a difficult journey, with lots of hurdles, you know, of the bureaucratic type, a few of the technical type too, but we got to the finish. We now are the proud users of an Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL). In order to get there I went to...
Read more →Information indicates that terrorists abroad and in our own back-yard are anticipating near-term attacks that we believe will rival, or exceed, the attacks we had to endure last year around this time of the year. Intelligence gathered in the past 3 and a half minutes indicates that a wave of Powerpoint Season greetings is...
Read more →When I entered the police station the second time, there were less people. I recognized 5 faces from earlier. They were waiting for something apparently. The officer whom I had spoken to before smiled politely and knowingly. He must have seen it a thousand times. When it was my turn I paid the €196,5...
Read more →To make up for the lack of articles due to the massive internet black-out that hit our appartment last week, I have a few related paragraphs for you today. Something of a little story actually. Enjoy it.
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