Την περασμένη εβδομάδα μου ήρθε στον νου η σκέψη πως είμαι πια είκοσι χρόνια στην Αμερική και πως τώρα ζω εδώ παραπάνω χρόνια απ’οτι ζούσα στην Ελλάδα.  Λίγο τρελό αν το σκεφτεί κανείς. Στην Ελλάδα ήμουν από λίγο πριν

Ο πειραματικός μάγειρας ήταν σε διακοπές (ή μάλλον σε ρεπό) επειδή η κουζίνα μαστορευόταν εδώ και πολύ καιρό και δεν ήθελα να πειραματιστώ σε ένα μικρό μέρος τις κουζίνας.  Με τα μαστορέματα τέλος (ή τουλάχιστον αρκετά

Well, another one bites the dust, or as would be more apt to say: another one gets bought out!  This weekend I got a note that Yahoo has acquired the SMS replacement called MessageMe and the service will be shutting down to focus on some yahoo specific projects (are they going to reinvigorate Yahoo Messenger?) This closure brings back to the forefront something I've said in the past (maybe

A couple of weekends ago I finished Bioshock Infinite (woot!).  I had begun the game a little before I went off on summer vacation (so there was a big lag between when I started and when I finished), but it wasn't all that difficult to get back back in the groove once I got back from Greece. I have to say that the original Bioshock games left me with a sense of wonder whereas  this game's

Last week I came across a parody for something called World of Peacecraft, where instead of blowing your enemies to smithereens, you make peace with them through bilateral and multilateral agreements.  As I already said, this is a parody, this game does not exist, but it does reminds me a lot of bad edutainment games. The funny thing is that I could see some misguided  company trying to

I never grew up with Reading Rainbow (I take it that it was popular in the US). My first introduction to LeVar Burton was as Engineer Geordi LaForge in Star Trek: The Next Generation.  Despite my complete and utter ignorance of the Reading Rainbow I did find the Tweeting Rainbow parody quite funny :)

Right before I went on vacation I downloaded Assassin's Creed Liberation HD for the xbox 360 ( I think it was on sale). I started messing around with it at the time, but I really didn't get very far.  Upon returning I started playing through this portable game upscaled to home console. The story follows Aveline de Grandpre, an assassin in the making.  Aveline is an orphan, living with

Αυτή την εβδομάδα η κουζίνα είναι λίγο άνω'-κάτω αφού κάνουμε μια μικρή ανακαίνιση, οπότε λίγο δύσκολο να συνεχίσω με το γκολ μου για το καλοκαίρι (το να μάθω να μαγειρεύω και εγώ κάτι). Έτσι λοιπόν, είπα να γράψω μια αναφορά

Φέτος που ήρθαμε από Ελλάδα φέραμε μαζί μας ένα μπουκάλι λικέρ μαστίχα και ένα με τεντούρα. Είπα λοιπόν να δω τι μπορώ να δημιουργήσω σε μορφή κοκτέιλ με αυτά τα δύο υλικά.  Το διαδίκτυο μου έδωσε μερικές ιδέες για την

Well, I guess Orkut's time came! This past weekend both my Google accounts (because for some reason I needed 2 Orkut accounts ;-) ), got a notice that Orkut was (finally) closing down. Back when Social Networks were new (or new to me), back in 2004, I had created social network accounts on a lot of networks. I was interested in comparing various functionalities and affordances of each platform