I’ve noticed that the site got a bit slower in the last few month. That’s probably because more and more is thrown onto the poor server. Anyways, I’ve just installed WP Super Cache plugin, which should make things a bit faster again. As always, please, let me know if you notice anything out of the ordinary.
Month: July 2012
Bill Clinton in Cyprus
The former president of the USA, Bill Clinton is visiting Cyprus. Cyprus Mail reports that he will be giving a lecture on the economic crisis:
FORMER president of the United States Bill Clinton will give a lecture on the economic crisis, at European University Cyprus on Saturday.
Clinton is the Honorary Chancellor of Laureate International Universities, which the European University is connected to, and he offers advice on social responsibility, youth leadership and increasing access to higher education.
“President Clinton will share his ideas with our students, faculty, administration, alumni and the community in the (university’s) Cultural Centre at 4pm, in a public address on ‘The Current Global Economic Situation”, the university announced.
Clinton is due to exchange views and ideas with the audience.
The website of European University Cyprus also has some information, as well as the map.
Update (July 22, 2012): If you missed the event, read this Cyprus Mail coverage. And this.
Update (August 12, 2012): There’s now also a YouTube video (via Economists of Cyprus).
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zkJS_egIYM]
GoDaddy.com
GoDaddy heard the prayers and re-designed their website and admin console. It is still horrible, but it is approximately 100,000 better than the previous one. Cheers!
In search of the sasquatch
I’m listening to the Joe Rogan’s podcast today. And one of the things that they talk about on the show is sasquatch. That’s basically a fancy name for large hairy humanoid creature said to live in wilderness areas of the United States and Canada. Also known as a bigfoot.
One of the websites mentioned was Olympic Project:
This web site showcases our research in the Olympic Mountain Range in Washington State. The Olympic Project is a comprehensive, systematic camera trap program consisting of fifty plus cameras placed along predatory travel routes throughout the Olympic Mountains. Our primary focus is to obtain a series of crystal clear photographs of Sasquatch in their natural environment.
They have a bunch of pictures of footsteps and such, but none of an actual sasquatch so far. What they do have is an amazing photo gallery with a bunch of animals in their natural habitat. Check it out.
First Cyprus hackaton
The guys from The Cypriot Enterprise Link are organizing the first ever hackaton in Cyprus. In case you don’t know what a hackaton is:
hackathon, noun : An event where engineers, designers & ideators come together to intensively and collaboratively build awesome things over a short amount of time.
Neither the venue, nor the exact date and time are announced, but it’s going to take place some time in September. But if you are a programmer, designer, and/or entrepreneur, you should probably follow the news on this one and attend. Even if you don’t want to do anything with coding right now, an event like this will probably be brilliant for networking.