Over the last week I’ve been working on a new theme for this blog, to accompany our somewhat radical upcoming change in life. This new theme is based on the PressWork framework with some style modifications by myself. The framework itself is still a Release Candidate, so there might be some areas that are not...
Read more →My previous articles about the iPhone in Greece still attract a lot of traffic, so I thought that, with the arrival today of the newest Apple Jesus phone, the iPhone 4S, in Greece, I’d update you on the prices these phones command here in Greece. The prices are for a 16GB iPhone at Vodafone,...
Read more →Glory Hallelujah! I found what I was looking for. Ecce moto! It’s an old iron barrel Royal Enfield Bullet 500, the classic type, no frills. This model hasn’t changed in over 50 years, they forgot to stop making them. The bike I bought is a 1999 model and is no longer available new since...
Read more →To Google Inc. All over the Internet Dear GOOGLE GODS, We fall on our knees and plead to you (visualize Lively /plead animation here) for our impudence of writing to the President of the United States not realizing your omnipotence and might. In an attempt to avoid your wrath and make peace, we commit...
Read more →Back in July I wrote about my new career as a kafeneion owner in the virtual world that Google launched under the moniker “Lively”. For those of you who don’t know, a kafeneion is a typical Greek gathering place where (mostly) men come together to have a coffee or rakí, read the newspaper, discuss...
Read more →I am sitting here in parko Georgiadou in the centre of Iraklio, a frappé in front of me, latin music floating in from behind, painstakingly composing this post on the small iPhone keyboard while keeping a worried eye on my battery indicator. It went from 61% to 47% in the last 10 minutes. This...
Read more →This is the sequel to my previous article iPhone 3G lands in Greece, describing my first experiences with the iPhone 3G in Greece. Disclaimer: this is not a product review, I don’t even try to pretend to give you a balanced report of the iPhone 3G. That has been done many times, and there...
Read more →Yesterday at 16:49 I got an e-mail message in my inbox from Vodafone, the chosen carrier for the iPhone in Greece. This was “an advanced warning” announcing that the next day, August 22nd, they would officially start selling the iPhone 3G all over Greece. Advanced indeed. To be sure that I wouldn’t be making...
Read more →For the last couple of weeks my log files showed some funny referrals from what turned out to be a Microsoft IP address. Each time a single search term would lead to my site, apparently from the Microsoft search.live.com site. Search terms included: money, crete, about, greece, uncategorized, harddisk, stress etc… My site doesn’t...
Read more →I recently volunteered to assist in the migration of a wordpress.com hosted blog to a self-hosted installation of the open source wordpress CMS. As far as the technical aspects were concerned all went pretty smooth. The challenge appeared to be to make the self-hosted site look exactly like the wordpress.com hosted blog.
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