Back in January 2003, when I was preparing to drive off from Kleine Spouwen to Iraklio, I used a route planner on the internet to give me some guidance on how to drive to my destination. I don’t remember anymore which website I used, but it definitely wasn’t mappoint.msn.com. And a good thing too...
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 →Friday the Olympic Flame arrived in Iraklio. It should have been a day of glory! But it wasn’t. The following may look like a small incident to you now, but remember, so was the street riot after “Le muet de Portici” in Brussels in 1830. We know what disaster that lead to! Hereafter I...
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 →Yes, yes, I know you are all dying to know how I am doing in the hottest SEO compettion of the year. Well, I have good news. As I previously reported I got to position 127 of 109.000 a week ago. Then my nigritude ultramarine page tumbled fast and steadily to stay more or...
Read more →Wired has a nice article about and an overview of RSS readers, also called news aggregators. From the article: These programs are hybrids of a Web browser and an e-mail client, allowing Web users to peruse hundreds of information sources in one place. Instead of surfing dozens of sites for the latest news or...
Read more →Mike Allen of The Washington Post writes: “President Bush told graduates of a Christian college Friday that the abuse of Iraqi prisoners has embarrassed the country, and he offered ‘compassionate conservatism’ as an antidote to ‘show the good heart of our country to the whole world.'” Elisabeth Bumiller writes in the New York Times:...
Read more →You heard of Sasser, haven’t you? What, you didn’t? Where have you been the last 24 hours? I hope you’re not that irresponsible a person that you don’t check the virus warning bulletins every now and then. You should, you know, because there is danger lurking out there all the time. There is only...
Read more →Beautiful day today. Yvonne and I went to the open air market at the harbour to buy our weekly portion of vitamines, in the form of vegetables mainly. We had a glass of wine at the cantina, together with 2 souvlaki’s each. Always a nice atmosphere at the cantinas. We love it more in...
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...
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