Two weeks ago we had friends from Belgium over for their holidays. We had a nice meal together and in the course of the conversation the subject of money came up. When I told them what the average salary in Crete was, they were shocked to learn that I worked for the minimal legal...
Read more →Once upon a time…. yes, it’s time for a fairy tale again ….there was a guy who had the nerve to think that he was good at problem solving. Let’s call him Sol for the sake of giving him a name. Not that the name has any importance or relevance to this story, it’s...
Read more →…that I kept you up to date, wouldn’t you say? I’m terribly sorry if I had you worried for a while there, but I’m really fine. It was just writer’s block. Or something like that. You can call it procrastination too. I just couldn’t bring myself to writing. I had lost any and all...
Read more →I didn’t sleep well at all. The roll of toilet paper they had tightly strapped to my right groin was hurting all night. The nurse had explained that it was necessary, to make sure that the vein in my groin would close completely. A good thing they will take it away in a couple...
Read more →“What’s with the boat”, you’re asking? Well, before the Greeks imported the custom of the christmas tree, they used scale models of boats in just the same fashion as other parts of the world used pine trees. They would dress up the boat in similar ways, with candles and balls and other glittering garlands....
Read more →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 →From BoingBoing: On June 15, a federal grand jury will convene in upstate New York to consider possible bioterrorism charges against University at Buffalo art professor Steve Kurtz and the Critical Art Ensemble, an internationally-known hactivist collective. From the CAE Defense Fund web site: “Early morning of May 11, Steve Kurtz awoke to find...
Read more →With only 5 minutes delay, the plane from Brussels had landed on Kazantsakis Airport in Iraklio. In no time Lucien and Reinhilde collected their luggage and we were out in the parking. After cursing the official who had slipped a parking ticket behind my screenwipers, we set off and drove to Spiliá, some 8...
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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