Getting to the Athens airport was easy as pie. Well, easy as buying pie. A short walk to Victoria station and then buy a ticket at the counter for 6€. It is more than a normal ticket, but it’s way cheaper than the 30€ or so that you pay by taxi. The [...]
Acropolis was pretty exausting yesterday, so I didn’t get to write before I got to Kos (Κωφ). I took the long, very steep way up to Acropolis, on the east side. The hill was very steep, but there were plenty of coffee shops and such in Plaka there, and the architecture was very [...]
The good news is that the talk went really well.. The bad news is that I was dead tired afterwards, so this post will be very short and somewhat uninteresting. The talk was attended by a few, including a Slovenian that I had met at the banquet the night before. I don’t know [...]
(I recently learned that I may be naming these posts incorrectly. If anyone who knows Greek can tell me, please do)
After the ordeal on Wednesday, I had a mission Thursday: get a phone that would work in Greece. I wasn’t all that interested in the talks that were being given that day, so [...]
It was a fairly uneventful day at the conference today, with quite a few talks on robotics, and working on my presentation for Friday. The conference hotel is large and fancy, reminding me why we didn’t stay there (it is >100€ a night). There was some confusion at registration, because I was using [...]
Well, I arrived yesterday at Eleftherios Venizelos airport around 4:30pm. I finally found some power at the Madrid Barajas airport next to some nice chairs, and plugged in, I didn’t have any problems. I’m still surprised how few are available. The only thing I can figure is that most people don’t use [...]
I’ve started on my first trip to countries that aren’t English-speaking today. I don’t really have any time at my destination today, so it’s a prelude to the real deal. I’m headed to Greece - Athens and Kos in particular, for a couple of weeks in order to attend MED 2007 and ECC [...]
Apple released Safari 3 for Windows and Mac a couple weeks ago, and of course as the early-adopter that I am, I was trying to download it before it was even actually available. I’ve been using it for the last weeks, and I’d like to boast and bitch about some of the features [...]
Lately I have been thinking about switching source code management systems. In years gone by, I have used CVS, Subversion, arch, and most recently bazaar-ng for managing all the source code that I have to change. Lately I have been unhappy with the speed that bazaar takes to get some things done, and [...]
Today Diana and I went to the Cliquot Club Cafe for our weekly pizza place visit. We discovered this place on a long walk we took from our apartment on one of the recent lovely spring days, and decided to visit it today. It is situated slightly hidden, about halfway between Lake street [...]