While having my morning cup of coffee and going through the Cyprus Mail articles, I caught myself pausing and thinking a few times. \u00a0That doesn’t happen that often (thinking, not pausing), so I thought I’d share the bits that halted me.<\/p>\n
The first articles was titled “TEPAK goes Wi-Fi<\/a>“. \u00a0WTF is TEPAK? \u00a0Not everyone knows, especially in the morning, with the full cup of coffee. \u00a0TEPAK is of course Cyprus Unviersity of Technology<\/a>. \u00a0Once again, with proper use of capitals: cyprus University of TECHNOLOGY. \u00a0So, they have some Wi-Fi there now. \u00a0Good. \u00a0Welcome to the 21st century! \u00a0No, seriously. \u00a0Let’s read a bit of the article.<\/p>\n LIMASSOL\u2019S technology university, TEPAK, yesterday went wireless.\u00a0The Wi-Fi connection was inaugurated by Limassol mayor Andreas Christou, the president of TEPAK\u2019s administrative committee Elipida Keravnou and the Vice President of the Electricity Authority (EAC) Loizos Papacharalambous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Wow! \u00a0That sounds a bit odd. \u00a0Why do they need a whole mayor to inaugurate the launch of a commonplace technology?<\/p>\n On behalf of the EAC Papacharalambous said the network had 40 points of access and covered areas of historic importance in Limassol including Heroes Square, Anexartisisas Street and part of the beach front.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Here it gets a bit funny. \u00a0I understand that the university is located in the old part of town and things are tight in there. \u00a0But when I think of the students who scattered between the beach front, the Heroes Square, which is famous for all the\u00a0cabarets and prostitution that goes on there, and Anexartisisas Street, which is a shopping center of sorts. \u00a0Anyway, that’s not important. \u00a0The important comes later and it actually puts the whole article in to perspective, so it makes sense.<\/p>\n Papacharalambous said all Cytanet users would also have free access through the Cytanet Wireless Zone service by using their own access codes while other users would be able to use the service by using access codes acquired through pre-paid cards, credit cards or by sending an SMS message.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, all of that is just a publicity stunt for Cytanet – one of the island’s Internet Service Providers. \u00a0Now it all makes sense. \u00a0It wasn’t about the Cyprus Unviersity of Technology at all. \u00a0It was about Cytanet covering part of the old town with a Wi-Fi network. Which they will charge you for.<\/p>\n By now I obviously lost all interest in the article, even if it was almost over. \u00a0But the next one I came around puzzled me too. \u00a0It was about “Two officers injured directing traffic<\/a>“. \u00a0In particular this bit:<\/p>\n One of the officers, who was hit while on his motorbike, escaped serious injuries after the airbag in his uniform deployed and broke his fall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Say what? \u00a0An airbag in the uniform? \u00a0That’s the first time I hear about something like this. \u00a0Google search for “police uniform airbag<\/a>” returned 53,000 results only and nothing looked interesting, not even the pictures. \u00a0Anyone can shed some light on this? \u00a0Cause I am all out of coffee by now.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n While having my morning cup of coffee and going through the Cyprus Mail articles, I caught myself pausing and thinking a few times. \u00a0That doesn’t happen that often (thinking, not pausing), so I thought I’d share the bits that halted me. The first articles was titled “TEPAK goes Wi-Fi“. \u00a0WTF is TEPAK? \u00a0Not everyone knows, … Continue reading Morning news and Cyprus technology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22,109,62],"tags":[186],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","category-limassol","category-technology","tag-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t