Category: Cyprus

I live in Cyprus for many years now. It is a beautiful little island in Mediterranean Sea. It features warm weather for most of the year, sea, very kind and hospital people, plenty of jobs in IT industry, good food and plenty of alcohol, stable currency, and more. It’s really a nice place to live if you can handle small towns and villages. It’s also a great place to raise the kids.

Not much happens here. It is a quiet and simple place. Yet, when something happens or when I write about it, I post it to Cyprus category.

Daily del.icio.us bookmarks

I think that I should spice up a bit these long lists of links. I’ll be adding some comments once in a while for this posts to be more human friendly. Those posts with a lot of links (lik this one) will be split into a introductory part and the full article, so that the main page of the site won’t get too long to scroll.

First group of links has to do with logic programming in Prolog language. Most of these links I found in the reference list in Ovid’s presentation at OSCON. Ovid was talking about ways of integrating Prolog and Perl. The link to his presentation is the first in the list.

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Diging into cultures

Lame title, I know, but I couldn’t think of a better one and now it’s too late.

One of the things I like about living in Cyprus is that I can meet with people of different cultures. Cypriots, Greeks, British, Russians, Eastern Europeans, Indians, Phillipinos, Pakistanis, Chinese, Lebanese – these are just a subset of people living in Cyprus. Additionally, there are a couple of millions of tourists travelling in and out of country every year.

Meeting these people and talking to them, even if briefly, greatly expands the horizons of cultural understanding. Even just watching them – how they behave on their own or in the group of their countrymen or mixed with others – triggers a lot of thinking.

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Vestnik Kipra is 10 years old

Vestnik Kipra poster“Vestnik Kipra” is one of the few Russian newspapers in Cyprus, produced by Cyprus Advertiser Ltd. This year, “Vestnik Kipra” celebrates its 10th birthday. There will be a party at Limassol Municipal Garden on coming Sunday, 31 July 2005.

The program of the even includes musical concert, lucky lottery, disco, and the bazaar. Entrance is free. Event will start at 16:00 and will continue until 22:00.

If you have nothing better to do, pass by and check it out.

PayPal works for Cyprus

Cyprus (together with the other newly added EU members) has made it to the country list of PayPal. The account is somewhat limited, but at least it works. I’ve tested the registration procedure and went through OK. I can now receive and send money, but I can’t get them cashed. This is not a big problem since I can spend them online.

You can donate money to me if you feel like it by using the button below:



If you don’t have any idea on how much to donate, then here are a few ideas for you:

  • $1 USD – Thank you.
  • $5 USD – Let me know what can I do for you.
  • $10 USD – You are special.
  • $50 USD – You must be the size of your heart.
  • $100 USD – Leave your name and URL in the comments and I will write something nice about your website here.
  • $1000 USD – You practically bought my soul. :)

Try it. It should work. Let me know how it goes in the comments.