http://www.oriste.com Yvonne and Luc in Wonderland Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:51:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.oriste.com/2008/08/25/iphone-3g-first-impressions 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 ... http://www.oriste.com/2008/08/22/iphone-3g-lands-in-greece The English language version of Kathimerini had this to say this morning: Residents and professional organizations on Crete yesterday blamed the slow progress of road construction in the north of the island for dozens of road fatalities in recent years, following the death at the weekend of three people in a ... http://www.oriste.com/2008/08/14/cretans-want-better-roads 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 ... http://www.oriste.com/2008/07/24/stoopid-microsoft-search-engine [caption id="attachment_910" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Seen on a trip in Koraka near Rodakino"][/caption] http://www.oriste.com/2008/07/19/fresh-fish-appartments-sic You might have heard of Lively, the virtual world launched last week by Google. I decided to leave another shore and start a new career as a Cretan kafeníon owner there. Come by and have a chat if you want. For the moment you need a Windows based system, Macs ... http://www.oriste.com/2008/07/18/cafe-oriste-on-lively-dot-com With all the focus on water lately, I forgot to mention that we are going to make a major improvement to my working conditions. I decided to forgo the Royal Enfield motorbike for the moment and spend some money on a decent air condition for the bedroom/office. Stupidly enough we ... http://www.oriste.com/2008/07/16/cooling-off Yesterday I decided to take control of my own fate and go out and buy one of those 1000 liter water containers to put somewhere on our terrace, connect the entry with with the incoming water pipe and the exit with the pump which would then pump it to the ... http://www.oriste.com/2008/07/16/hey-is-that-water I'm terribly sorry, but water these days is the only thing I have on my mind, and since you were interested I our faring, you'll get what you asked for. The last time we had a tiny little bit of water coming out of the pipes was on Tuesday, 8th July. ... http://www.oriste.com/2008/07/14/oh-no-not-about-water-again You're forewarned, this is about water again. It appears that I worried for nothing the last time I posted here. Of the seven days that passed since that message, we've only had water twice, each time for about 2 hours around 7 in the morning. Since it gets rather warm early ... http://www.oriste.com/2008/07/08/water-you-mean