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 →I have 5 e-mail accounts and they fill up with spam faster than I can empty them. Lately it looks like they are targetting my .Mac account, that’s the e-mail account with wonderful integration into your operating system. That is, if you are a Macintosh user. Anyway, for those that didn’t know, I am...
Read more →We’ve had some pretty depressing weather in the last 4 days. The tourists certainly didn’t like it. Today the sun was shining bright. On the Olympic front the temperature is rising across the board: the IOC takes out insurance against the Games not happening, Mark Spitz of olympic swimming fame thinks the US team...
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 →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 →I don’t know if it is this technology or the people that use it, but my internet connection was down for 5 days once more. You might have noticed my absence. It is not a good thing at the beginning of my renewed commitment to my blog-o-sphere. Alas it can’t be helped. Ti na...
Read more →Two Dutch guys, aged 19 and 17, made it to the frontpage of the Saturday edition of the local Cretan newspaper “Patris”, or Patrida as it is still lovingly called by the elder people. It appears the boys had found a wallet on the beach in front of one of the sea-side hotels in...
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 →A Flemish farmer is “born with a brick in his belly”, But what are bricks to us are not bricks to Ikaros. Well, I got lost walking in these cities and towns in which I am certain Luc could give perfect directions to any passerby. You readers, if there are any out there, know...
Read more →For all those who wondered what was going on, and for all those who stopped wondering and started yelling at me, here I am again. Physically and spiritually in excellent shape, mentally slowly going nuts. As my pal Tom said: “I hope you didn’t go out and get a job or something crazy like...
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