Disclaimer: I didn’t write this, I wished that I had or that I could, but I didn’t and I can’t. This was passed on to me by a friend, sorry I don’t know the source or author, it speaks for itself though… I dedicate this to a friend in the U.S. who had tubes...
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 →You would just love to hear that from me, wouldn’t you? Well I have good news for you, Macs are actually cheaper than comparable Dells (to name just any run-of-the-mill manufacturer, which happens to be a favourite of one of my favourite correspondents, check the comments to previous articles), and they also happen to...
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 →Friday the Olympic Flame arrived in Iraklio. It should have been a day of glory! But it wasn’t. The following may look like a small incident to you now, but remember, so was the street riot after “Le muet de Portici” in Brussels in 1830. We know what disaster that lead to! Hereafter I...
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 →After their succesful offensive in April last year, Lucien and Reinhilde are planning a new attack on our shores next weekend, in commemoration of that other great invasion that took place 60 years ago, give or take a few days… To be honest, they are a bit late this year, following in the footsteps...
Read more →Yes, yes, I know you are all dying to know how I am doing in the hottest SEO compettion of the year. Well, I have good news. As I previously reported I got to position 127 of 109.000 a week ago. Then my nigritude ultramarine page tumbled fast and steadily to stay more or...
Read more →Wired has a nice article about and an overview of RSS readers, also called news aggregators. From the article: These programs are hybrids of a Web browser and an e-mail client, allowing Web users to peruse hundreds of information sources in one place. Instead of surfing dozens of sites for the latest news or...
Read more →According to Ars Technica, Germany has decided to vote against all changes to current European patent laws. In a statement given to demonstrators in Germany, Federal Department of Justice Minsterial Director Elmar Hucko read the riot act to the EC: ‘Under no circumstances do we want American procedures in Europe’, Hucko vowed with regard...
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