Well, this is going to be tougher that I thought. There are almost 20.000 pages returned by Google, after only 5 days! I have seen in my log files that googlebot visited my site, even several times since I started, but I’m still nowhere to be seen in the first 100 results. And let’s...
Read more →No, this is not a typicial spam e-mail subject line, although you are forgiven for thinking that it is. This is actually a search term which is the subject of a little competition. I have explained before what I do for a living here in Crete. Now www.darkblue.com, in conjunction with Search Guild, a...
Read more →A warning indicator in the dashboard lit up yesterday when we went to Karteros. The explanation in the manual said “bring the car immediately to a dealer”. Since no car dealer is open on Saturday or Sunday, that would have to wait till monday. Today I didn’t risk driving with it, unless it was...
Read more →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 →Now that I am committed to fill this space every day I’m gathering “filler”. That’s stuff that “fills” this space when I don’t have other news. One of those fillers is statistical information about the use of this website. Some people like that, I know I do, but I don’t flatter myself in thinking...
Read more →Net zoals de 2 voorgaande jaren vindt ook dit jaar een “Open Keramiek Atelier route” plaats bij pottenbakkers & keramisten in Nederlands en Belgisch Limburg op 17 en 18 april van 10 tot 17 uur. Buiten de mogelijkheid om verschillende ateliers te bezoeken, is er ook een overzichtstentoonstelling te Vaals (NL) in De Kopermolen....
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 →Living in another country can put a lot of strain on a person. One has to get acquainted with all these novel things, rules, behavior, laws, food, language, history, geography, you name it, everything is different from what one is used too. And then there is the weather! What a dog! How can anybody...
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...
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