Month October 2006

Gag order.

The Armenian Genocide is a controversial issue. I’ve written before about its historical value and how it has been manipulated, both by Turkey and its commercial partners to improve relations at the expense of historical fact. I’ve applauded France for standing up to the Turkish threats and acknowledging a fact that has been long ignored […]

Tim Schafer's reunion with the musicians.

I just visited Tim Schafer’s DoubleFine news page and read about the Video Game Live concert that took place on the 21st of September 2006. The fact that the concert was somewhere in the Western U.S. — most probably California — made any prospect of me attending extremely remote, but still it would have been […]

The return of TB?

A couple of years ago, I went through a phase of my life where I watched innumerable documentaries over the course of a few months. One of the documentaries was PBS’ 2001 documentary series, Evolution. In one episode of that series, there was some mention of the threat by multi-drug-resistant (MDR) TB. In the documentary, […]

You What?

There goes YouTube, swallowed by the new Microsoft Google. With the YouTube brand here to stay, is Google Video going to stay then or will it disappear?

Τέλος στη μπόχα και στη Γαλλία!

Μετά την Ιρλανδία και τη Σκωτία, τώρα και η Γαλλία απελευθερώνεται από το καπνό και την παρελκόμενη μπόχα, καθώς θα απαγορεύεται το κάπνισμα σε δημόσιους χώρους από τη 1η Φεβρουαρίου 2007. Ας ελπίσουμε για σχετική Ευρωπαϊκή Οδηγία στο προσεχές μέλλον.. Περισσότερα εδώ [BBC, Αγγλικά]

Screen cleaning 101

In the era of CRTs, cleaning a computer display was somewhat easier than it is today. While CRT coatings also required special cleaning agents, glass was tougher, easier to clean and more durable than the plastic coatings of TFTs. Things are not the same anymore. TFT computer screens have coatings that are reactive to many […]