¡felicitaciones España!
España beat Hellas, 70 – 47 in what was a shockingly poor performance by the Hellenic team, and an excellent, organised performance by the Spanish, despite the absence of it’s star player, Pau Gasol. Well done Spain!
Team USA vs DreamTeam Hellas: 95-101
Χωρις αμφιβολία η καλύτερη διεθνής εκπροσώπηση της χώρας μας που έχει υπάρξει! Το σημερινό παιχνίδι Ελλαδος-ΗΠΑ ήταν πραγματικά ένα ρεσιτάλ καλαθοσφαίρισης από την ελληνική ομάδα απέναντι στην δυνατότερη, τρομακτικότερη ομάδα του κόσμου. Ξεκάθαρη υπεροχή σίγουρα στην άμυνα αλλά και στην επίθεση. Διαφορά πάνω από 8 βαθμούς υπερ της Ελλάδος στο μεγαλύτερο μέρος του αγώνα. Η […]
Tim Berners-Lee and 'Web 2.0'
While his Semantic Web has not exactly been 'well-defined' or 'a thriving success', Tim Berners-Lee's dismissal of 'Web 2.0' is absolutely justified and valid. Enough with those nebulous, useless terms already!
Tomtom Navigator 6 is out.
And it still does not have coverage of Hellas. Damn you Tomtom!
Development, Evolved.
In ‘Cosmiblog’, the previous incarnation of my blog (2001-2005), I had written several times about how the Computing industry, as manifested through the development of operating systems, applications, hardware, is stuck in a vicious circle of pointless-reinvention very occasionally disturbed by massive paradigm shifts originating either from brilliant startups or industry leaders aiming to maximise […]
Mel didn't approve of compilers…
I remember reading this in my first year at university. 'Lest a Whole New Generation of programmers Grow up in Ignorance of this Glorious Past...'