Most of you probably know that I have been a big Apple fan for decades. My first interest was awoken while I was working at IBM in Brussels (1976-1981, big mainframes, big, big mainframes, water-cooled too), when I showed an article about the then popular Apple II to one of our technicians for whom...
Read more →I told you that I was trying to entice Aretússa to write down the little stories that she keeps telling us so that I could publish them on my weblog. Well, Aretússa didn’t hesitate long. This morning I found the following in my mailbox. Without further ado, and by way of introducing Aretússa, I...
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...
Read more →Ever since I used OTE a my service provider I have had an additional e-mail account with them, which somehow ended up as my main e-mail account@otenet.gr. This e-mail account is different from my main account which I use to log in to their network. Usually the e-mail account and the login account are...
Read more →Well, I fixed them, the permalinks. A permalink of course is a URL that points to a specific blog entry even after the entry has passed from the front page into the blog archives, or — in my case — to a completely different system. Because a permalink remains unchanged indefinitely, it is less...
Read more →Day 11 As I reported already the ADSL line was up at 07:40 this morning. Without a single interruption it stayed up until 12:13. Could it be possible that I had finally entered 24Mbps nirvana? You know the answer already of course. No, I hadn’t. At 12:13 the line went down for the first...
Read more →Day 7 of ADSL flakiness. On Monday December 31st I went to OTE in Iraklio to speak to a real person about my ADSL problems. Of course I didn’t get any further than an administrative staff member who dully noted down what I said (I presented her with a nice spreadsheet of all the...
Read more →On Friday evening the line went down again around 18:30. I could see a pattern emerging here: every evening (afternoon if you’re Greek), the line would lose its sync between 17:00 and 19:00, and would remain unable to connect again for between 10 and 16 hours, until around 10:00 in the morning. During that...
Read more →Having miserably failed at establishing where you have been the last couple of months, let me at least fill you in where we will be in the foreseeable near future. For starters we will take a break from work on the 16th of this month and head for the south to… yes, you guessed...
Read more →We’re moving to a new address. The place we currently live in has become a bit problematic. First there was the (forced) public sale in April of 4 of the 8 appartments. Then 2 months later the owner put out adverts for the remaining 4 appartments. None of them have been sold yet, but...
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