Breathtaking.

Just back from a trip to Kythira, my usual destination whenever I get the chance to get some time off. Here’s a picture I took that I find more or less representative of the state of nature on the island during Spring — it’s every bit as beautiful as this HDR photo alludes. Kythira was […]

Powerbook power plug woes

In a few weeks my laptop will be 4.5 years old. And for all intents and purposes it still holds its own pretty well for practically everything, but the most CPU-intensive tasks. Tasks that I typically perform on much faster desktop machines anyway. Some weeks ago the laptop, a 2003 17″ Apple Powerbook G4, started […]

The Gevende Gig in Athens.

This past Thursday, the 17th of April 2008, Gevende performed at a packed ‘An Club’ in Athens, supported by Night on Earth and Sugah Galore. Overall, this was an excellent gig and I’m pretty sure most people had a great time. Here are some photos from the event. Night on Earth

Any tendency to treat religion as a private matter must be resisted

It's funny, but statements like these are probably the reason a large, and increasing, part of the population chooses to treat religion with contempt. I'm quite certain that, at the end of the day, any religious leader would rather see his/her religion treated as a 'private matter' than a meaningless joke of yesteryear, for in a modern society it can probably only be one of the two.

10 Days to Hardy and GNOME's ugliness.

Following on from my earlier post on the upcoming Ubuntu 8.04 ‘LTS’ release, I fear that my prediction, albeit harsh, was pretty accurate: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS should have never been branded as a Long Term Support (LTS) release. Despite the obvious shortcomings of having β-quality software (Firefox 3.0, GVFS) and new frameworks that — statistically […]