It's that time of the year again!

Time to take this blog off the front burner, put it on the back burner, and make some website updates. Yes most people tend to do these updates while keeping their blog in service, however with Final Papers and Final Exams coming up in the Month of May, I've decided to take my blogger's vacation now

I will still be blogging on my ID blog (click here to go there) since this is my school/education blog and I will most likely be using it for classes.


I shall return here sometime in mid June


The photo is a shot of Zakinthos from Kourouta beach, in the evening - a place I wish I were spending my blog-vacation

Tags: personal, vacation

Τις προάλλες κοίταζα στο google images να βρω μερικές εικόνες από ελληνικά προϊόντα για ένα μάθημα που έχω. Το μάθημα είναι περί κουλτούρας και πως την συνδυάζει στα μαθήματα διδασκαλίας μια ξένης γλώσσας. Εγώ φυσικά ενδιαφέρομαι να για την διδασκαλία της Ελληνικής Γλώσσας αφού εδώ κοντά δεν υπάρχουν πολλά μέρει για να μάθεις την γλώσσα.

Έτσι λοιπόν άρχισα να κοιτάζω για προϊόντα που μπορεί κανείς να βρει σε περίπτερα. Πράγματα όπως η σοκοφρέτα, τα τσιγάρα, τα διάφορα νερά και τα Δρακουλίνια.

Τέλος πάντων, κοιτάω, κοιτάω, κοιτάω, και βρίσκω μια φωτογραφία από συσκευασία Cheetos Δρακουλίνια. «Cheetos Δρακουλίνια;;;» σκέφτομαι Ένα μικρο κομμάτι από μέσα μου πέθανε. Τα δρακουλίνια ήταν κάτι Ελληνικό και τώρα πια έχει γίνει πολυεθνικό εντός Ελλάδος γιατί δρακουλίνια δεν μπορείς να βρεις στην Αμερική.

Που καταντήσαμε

Να μια κλασσική διαφήμισή για να θυμόμαστε τα παλιά λοιπόν.

Tags: personal, δρακουλίνια, περίεργα

I've walked by this information board many times over the past month and I had never really noticed the un-necessary quotation marks. This morning I stopped and snapped a photo of it.

I wonder what they mean by "off-peak" LOL

Tags: personal, humor, quotes

Just as I was reminiscing about the good ol' times of Web 1.0, Yahoo Chat, my email pen pals, and all the new people I met online as I entered college, here's another service that is biting the dust: Geocities.

Way back when, before I paid for my own website, I designed and published my website on Geocities. The URL was somewhat obscure like geocities.com/starTrek/Sector/7440/username. You essentially picked a town, a neighborhood and a street address and that's how your URL was determined (sadly I can't find backups of my website on archive.org)

As...the good ol' days of Club Admiralty version 1.0...

I haven't used Geocities since I got my own web hosting, but the service will be missed.

Tags: technology, personal, yahoo, geocities

A while back I saw this comic book cover generator on one of my contact's profiles on Facebook.

Since I had nothing to do the other day I went through the generator and made myself info a super hero - batwings and all!

If you've got some time to waste and want a comic book cover of your alternate persona, head over to:
http://www.cpbintegrated.com/theherofactory/

Tags: personal, entertainment, Silly, comic

OK...this thing has been going on for a month now and it's quite bizarre.

Initially I could not start my car up. I let it be, came back to it and it started without a problem.
The check engine light came on, but it turned off after driving a little while
I thought it may have been the cold weather and so I didn't think twice about it.

I drove the car from the sheltered garage (avoid the snow), parked it at home.
30 minutes later I get back into the car to go somewhere. I get out of the car for a couple of minutes.
I get back in and go somewhere else. 45 minutes later I get back into the car, it doesn't start!

OK, I leave there over night (AAA was going to take up to 60 minutes to get to me and I was 10 minutes from home walking)
Next morning I start it up without any problems! I take it to my local mechanic.

Round 1 repairs: He checks the battery. It is weak.
OK, it's been 5 years since I changed batteries so I guess that was the problem because the starter
didn't have any problems and the electrical system checked out fine.

I get the car and a week later (I don't drive often), same problem!
I go to pick up some stuff, run into a store, five minutes later I come out, no problems.
I stop by an art opening, stay 30 minutes, car won't start!
I walk home (15 minute walk), I come back an hour later - it starts without problems! WTF?
Oh yes, the check ending light comes on and stays on.

Round 2: I take it back to the mechanic, they put the car through its paces (they took longer to call me back).
They said the battery was a bit weak, they replaced it (under warranty).
They checked the spark plugs, they were clean, the started still seemed fine.
Weird!!! They didn't charge me a thing for this lookup/repair.

So today (a week later), I head to the gas station. shut down the engine. fill up car. start it up again without problems
I go to the mini-market, go in get some groceries (less than 5 minutes), come out, car starts without problems
I had a craving for a donut (no joke!), I go to my local donut business, get my donuts, stay less than 5 minutes, car refuses to start (argh!!!)
Same thing - the engine cranks, it just does not start up!!!
I leave it there for an hour while I walk home (15 minutes away), and come back an hour and 15 minutes later.
It starts up without a problem, and the check engine light is on.

Seriously, WTF???

Tags: personal, car, volkswagen, beetle

A few days back I was at an event where it was appropriate to give out a business card - it was a quick way to exchange information.

This however was my first time handing out my business card and it felt a bit weird, well...maybe not weird, but unnatural, or not second nature.

At moments I felt it may have been a bit forced, at other moments I felt a bit 'stop-and-go', trying to find the appropriate timing to exchange business cards.

So what was the lesson learned? The exchanging of a business card is an art that I have not mastered - time to practice!

On the upside, people seemed to like my moocards

Tags: personal, work, school, GIDA

For the last year or so I’ve been keeping a personal blog, things that happen in everyday life. The range of topics is quite large, from the cure puppy I may have seen on my way to the library, to the more serious type like cursing that the idiot that cut me off this morning.

On Blogger, your blog can be public, which means anyone can view it - obviously I don’t want that, I just want close friends and family to read it so they know what it going on in my behind the scenes world. The next level is “only blog authors”, again I don’t want this because only I want to be writing on my blog. The final option is “only invited guests”, whereby I can invite (and authorize) people to view and comment on my blog posts.

This is a nice stop gap measure for the people whose emails I’ve got. The truth is that I do not have all of my family’s email addresses and some don’t even use email due to generational or technological issues. The killer feature here would be something like twitter’s “request to follow”. My twitter feed is also protected, and if anyone wants to follow me they can make a request and I can approve or deny. I would like this functionality in Blogger – it would make life so much easier!

Tags: personal, blogger, google, features, thoughts