The last 5 to 7 weeks have been hell, blogwise. Somehow I got on the list of a gang of blogspammers. Blogspammers are people who exploit the comment function in blog entries to fill them up with URLs for their sites. They do this because this advances their position in the search engines: the...
Read more →Once upon a time there were numerous search engines. They all lived more or less happily together in a beautiful area of cyberspace, appropriately called Dick and Harry’s Search Engine Repair Center of America and the Outer Colonies. Then one day trouble began. Nobody remembers when or how exactly. Some elders, living on the...
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...
Read more →Η Ελλάδα υπό το μυδέν. Greece is living a first for as long as anybody can remember. Temperatures dropped below zero (celsius) last night. Thursday was still sunny and relatively warm. In the evening (when the Tsiknopémpti celebrations were in full swing, remember) it started raining. That turned into snow in the higher parts...
Read more →You probably noticed that the previous entry contained Greek words. Oh? You didn’t? Well, that might be your computer’s fault. Which operating system…? Oh, forget that, just a silly joke (again). I’m trying to convince the software that I use to create these entries and which is also responsible for displaying this screen to...
Read more →Information indicates that terrorists abroad and in our own back-yard are anticipating near-term attacks that we believe will rival, or exceed, the attacks we had to endure last year around this time of the year. Intelligence gathered in the past 3 and a half minutes indicates that a wave of Powerpoint Season greetings is...
Read more →It seems we were just lucky, weather-wise, when we arrived here on Sunday morning. Allthough we had a little bit of rough weather at sea during the night, in the morning when we got off the ferry boat, the skies were clear and little later the sun was shining brightly. Monday at 8 o’clock...
Read more →Tonight we pack and tomorrow we’re gone. The taxi wakes us up at 5 in the morning and the plane at Iraklio airport leaves at 7 (if all goes well). We land in Athens at 10 to 8 and have an hour to kill before the next flight takes us out to Düsseldorf. Lucien...
Read more →Up at six o’clock in the morning today. Plenty of time for my morning rituals and at 8 o’clock sharp I climbed the stairs of the employment office, straight to the second floor, where the hundred or so of misérables had been queueing last friday. There was nobody now. I entered the office the...
Read more →While we walked back to were I had parked the car, as we approached that spot, I tried to see whether the car was still there and had not been towed away. It was with a sigh of relief that I spotted it quietly waiting for us. It was only when I drove off...
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