We have a new internet phenomenon in Greece. It’s called the “blog spot”. I don’t know what it is. I spotted (pardon the pun) it first in an article of eKathimerini which I quoted earlier. At that time I postulated that it might be some as-yet-undiscovered variant of the G spot. But I didn’t...
Read more →Back in 2003 when I just arrived here in Crete, at a time where 64Kbps ISDN was called “broadband”, I couldn’t really afford to spend too much time hanging out on the internet. I just made short connections to download my e-mail and my newsgroup subscription (anybody remember newsgroups?) and uploaded my pre-written postings...
Read more →Whoa! Whoa! Enough already! We’ve had no less than 6 rumblings in the underground in the last 2 hours, all in the same area, 3 of them above 6 on the Richter scale. Someone’s throwing a hell of a Valentine party down there! Time LAT LONG Depth KM Mag 12:08:56 36.44 N 22.03 E...
Read more →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 →For those who keep track of this, we have been going through some extremely rough weather lately. The whole of Crete has been hit with strong – 10 Beaufort – winds, with the usual, to-be-expected results: roofs flying off, electricity poles (wooden, waddayathink?) uprooted or snapped, cables broken, the works. Large areas have been...
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 →A 1,5m long squid weighting 4,2kg was washed ashore Koum-Kapi beach in Chania, Crete. A resident of the area saw the giant squid as he was trying to park his car. His son, who was accompanying him went straight to collect the squid, which is usually fished in deep waters in the Mediterranean. The...
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 →OMG! It’s so thin! !(http://www.oriste.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/macbook-air.png) !(http://www.oriste.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/macbook-air-front.png) !(http://www.oriste.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/macbook-air-side.png) 😉 I’m sorry, Tom, I couldn’t resist.
Read more →One of the favorite pastimes that Yvonne and I share is discovering small, usually family-run, little tavernas where the food is prepared with love, the prices are honest, the atmosphere is authentic and were occasionally a musician spices up the food with Cretan music. If we have the good fortune of spending time there...
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