Some people are really afraid of the Internet. On multiple occasions, when I was photographing a party and warned everyone that pictures will turn out on the web, someone would come up and ask not to put his or her pictures online. I always, of course, comply with such requests, but they do seem strange … Continue reading Why you should never put your picture on the Internet …
Olga and I watch “The Grey Zone” on DVD. It is a slow and boring movie about the World War II. It is not even so much about the movie, but about a concentration camp and how people were burning other people in crematoriums. I’ve seen a whole lot of movies about World War II … Continue reading The Grey Zone
Watched “Wag the Dog” on DVD. It is an excellent movie that merges so peacefully to the recent memory of “Fahrenheit 9/11“. Both films have a lot of common ideas, one of which is that mass media plays an enourmous role in what we think and beleive in. This is more true of America I … Continue reading Wag the Dog
Those who deal with other people’s source code are regularly caught saying “WTF?”. Here is a site where people like these post daily the reasons that they get caught saying it. My favourite one so far is about the FOR-CASE paradigm. After too much code these people usually realize that they are working with fools.
Svetka and Yannis invited us to see a performance given by some dancing group in the CTO center in Germasoia village. Olga and I didn’t have anything better to do so we went there to enjoy the performance. The show plot was a reenactment of a traditional Cyprus marriage. There was a small scene downstairs … Continue reading Cyprus Theatre