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Διαβάζω στο podilates.gr σχετικά με την συνάντηση που έκαναν μέλη του site με τον δήμαρχο Αθηναίων, Γιώργο Καμίνη σε συνέχεια επιστολής που του είχαν αποστείλει πριν από μερικούς μήνες. Στο σχετικό post αναγράφονται λεπτομερώς τα θέματα που συζητήθηκαν κατά την συνάντηση αυτή. Είμαι φίλος του ποδηλάτου και αναγνωρίζω πως η Αθήνα είναι μια ιδιαίτερα εχθρική πόλη προς αυτό, όμως αφ’ενός η κρίση, αφ’ετέρου οι ολοένα μεγαλύτερες οργανωμένες προσπάθειες προώθησής του έχει, τα τελευταία χρόνια, αυξήσει το ενδιαφέρον και την χρήση του όχι μόνον ως μέσο αναψυχής αλλά και μεταφοράς. Με ιδιαίτερη θλίψη μου, διαβάζω όμως πως κάποια από τα πιο…
Cube – Cube (2012)
I don’t often write about Greek bands and for good reason. If there is one thing one can write about the rock underground in Greece is that it is unpredictable. Its rare highs exceptional, its frequent lows painful and the uncertainty surrounding the future of a band, person or even a release a dire constant, in this country devoid of the necessary cultural and economic foundations to support musicians (and, arguably, artists in general), unless they fall in that sonically and æsthetically narrow slice that spans everything between contemporary greek-kitsch and the multitude of offsprings of the archetypal oriental-meets-byzantine ‘folk’.…
On the Google IO Keynote
So Android announced Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), the next version of the operating system with much awaited performance improvements and some new (marginal) features, available to Galaxy Nexus users in mid-July and the remaining 99% of the Android ecosystem sometime between a year and never. Along with the new version of Android, Google announced several other products and services, including their Nexus 7″ tablet, which I won’t cover in this post. What I am going to focus on is Nexus Q, the first product designed exclusively by Google, a ‘social’ media player that is, intriguingly, manufactured in the U.S and…
The (new) Microsoft Surface
Seeing the Microsoft Surface [really Microsoft? You guys couldn’t find a new, unique name?] Keynote reinforces my belief that the company has long lost the capacity of creating and projecting a genuine, unique and interesting image, products and services. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, it quickly did away with most of the product lines the company was making that weren’t very successful. It ended printers, clones, the Newton and many other products and services and focused on creating a few, exceptional products. In the early 2000s Apple had started gaining mindshare, both in the computing world with OS X…