Well, we’re back online, sort off, as there is no line. Remember Einstein’s cat mentioned last month? When asked to explain the then new phenomenon of radio, Einstein is said to have answered “You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and...
Read more →I just read this article on Microsoft in the New York Times where Bill Gates himself reveals two interesting numbers: first is that there are about 600 million Microsoft customers. That’s a nice piece of income for mr. Gates. The second number is that approximately — by the Bill’s own admission — 5% of...
Read more →We interrupt this program once more to let you know that we’ve had some problems with our internet connections lately. Some problems! Fact of the matter is that we have been virtually connectionless for the last 3 weeks. Or as Onslow would say, “I’m surrounded by no internet at all”. It looks like very...
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 →If there is one thing to mention about this week it’s that it was soooooo hot, my brain was melting. The internet weather stations have all reported temperatures in excess of 30 degrees celsius. In this office that I am about to leave any minute now it felt more like 40 degrees… On wednesday...
Read more →As you are all preparing to invade this island where I have found shelter (Frans and Nadine just arrived in Chania by the way), I thought it time to give some friendly advise as to the code of conduct while driving on our scenic roads. So here are a few rules, which — if...
Read more →You wouldn’t believe what happened to me today. I had been wondering about it for some time now, but as the days and the weeks passed I had given up on it. I had come to assume that it just would never happen, extraordinary as that may seem. It must have been, for sure,...
Read more →An interesting letter came in this morning. From the Greek Embassy in Brussels. I had written them asking for a document which would allow me to register my car duty-free in Greece, as I can do in any other European country. Greece is notorious for ignoring European regulations in that respect. Anyway, I don’t...
Read more →Héhé, quite a few of you must be wondering what the heck is going on. To tell you the truth, not much these days. That’s the problem: not much interesting happening to tell a story. Routine is creeping in, I suppose. We can still sit silently on our balcony, admiring the Psiloritis top, but...
Read more →Mattie Hermans of the Open University in Heerlen is the second to visit Crete since we got here. I promised him I would hold for him the nice weather we’ve been enjoying for the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately, I have been found not powerful enough for that task. This morning the weather completely...
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