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In my youth I used to play the clarinet. Never actually owned one myself so I recently for fun bought a good quality “plastic”  instrument (so it will be mostly maintenance free). Got a very good deal on this one, just the mouthpieces that came with it are basically worth as much as I gave … Continue reading »

This olive oil from Crete is among the absolute best I have tasted. Luckily I can buy this one as well as many others from my local Yasou Café.

The first actual computer that I ever programmed? In my case that would be something that in my day was called a mini-computer. Mini in the sense that it was no larger than the average refrigerator (at least when you included the rack it was sitting in). And here it is, the Alpha/LSI-2 from Computer … Continue reading »

As a recently retired software developer is has been fun to look back at where it all started. In my youth I swore by Texas Instruments calculators, although to tell you the truth they were not very durable. This is the first one I had that could be programmed.

My impressions of the island of Kimolos can be found here.

Again a new ferry for me, this is the very nice C/F Dionisos Solomos. A very pleasant ride indeed…

Some updates in my Greece photo album (Athens, Piraeus, Kimolos). Nothing spectacular, just taken with my phone.

Yet another “new” ferry for me was (in May) the C/F Ionis.

For the first time in several years I used a Greek ferry last fall that I had not previously encountered. The Marmari Express was quite nice, some details noted on my legacy ferry site. Another picture (from this May) can be seen above.

Also expect major updates to the Kythnos page itself in the coming hours (or days…).