At 8:15 this morning, with the sun rising low in my back, I was driving on the national road from Iraklio towards Rethimno. I do this every Monday and Tuesday. This stretch of the national road is the only part where there are 2 lanes in each direction, with a concrete wall dividing the...
Read more →I know you are all (3 of you) dying to know what my position is in Google in respect to the most search after topic in ages: nigritude ultramarine. At last count, five minutes ago, I ranked 127 of 109.000 results returned by Google. Given the fact that I don’t have a single site...
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...
Read more →A warning indicator in the dashboard lit up yesterday when we went to Karteros. The explanation in the manual said “bring the car immediately to a dealer”. Since no car dealer is open on Saturday or Sunday, that would have to wait till monday. Today I didn’t risk driving with it, unless it was...
Read more →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 →For the last 2 days we’ve had an extremely warm south wind blowing, the Notiás as it is known locally. During such days most people complain about bodily inconveniences such as lack of energy, headaches, tearing eyes, and a whole lot more. We are probably not integrated enough to experience this. Give us a...
Read more →Stavros was brooding, I could see that from afar. He’s Andreas’ father, past 70 (but he won’t say how much), and I chat with him regularly on my way to the office in the morning. When I asked him what was wrong, he only grumbled something unintelligible and nodded his head towards his daughter...
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 →Read in ZDNet UK News the following snippet: Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a US company that has been awarded the contract to provide IT security at the Olympics, SAIC also plans to set up an electronic fence around the Olympics, using infrared and high-resolution cameras, and vehicle tracking systems. An airborne surveillance...
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...
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