Today I had the opportunity to read “The Athens Affair” article, a very popular document during the last couple of weeks, written by Vassilis Prevelakis and Diomidis Spinellis. I have enjoyed reading it so much, that I decided to go a bit off-topic on my blog and write a post about it.

Hardware either works or does not work. Two pieces of hardware are either compatible or icompatible. This is the rule. However, when the incompatibility-gap between the two pieces of hardware is small, there is almost always a way to make these two pieces work together as if they were fully compatible. This generally involves the [...]

Taken from the project homepage: Transifex is a web-system that facilitates the process of submitting translations in various source control management systems (SCMs). This project caught my attention right after I read its description, so I would like to write a few words as a non-computer-scientist to its lead developer:

Mobile phones have never been one of my interests, but lately I decided to spend some more time exploring their capabilities. This includes phone maintenance, data management, data synchronization, networking etc. I do not own any expensive cellular phones (this is a matter of principal). Currently, I use an old Siemens S45 and a Sony-Ericsson [...]

Some of you might have noticed that there have been some changes in the way readers can interact with g-loaded.eu over the last month. Comments and trackbacks are being disabled 20-30 days after the publication of a post, while a new facility, a discussion board, has been set up in order to compensate for the [...]

I am very happy to announce that the famous and popular GlossyBlue WordPress theme, created by Nick La from N.Design Studio, has integrated the simple-recent-comments plugin for showing the recent comments. I guess that I couldn’t describe the theme better than its own creator’s description:

Abstractia is a new inspired theme for WordPress, designed by Rob. The theme implements a clean layout and a colour combination which makes the reader feel comfortable with the website, before even starting reading the content. Also, the clever arrangement of the various content blocks makes it easy to interact and navigate. Although I am [...]

If you intend to extend your programming skills by learning the Python programming language, apart from the absolutely perfect official tutorial by Guido van Rossum, consider reading Magnus Lie Hetland’s Instant Python crash course. It’ll help you get started in no time!

My quest for the best AWK tutorial has reached an end. The University of Georgia has set up a guide, small in size, but with content of high quality, which can help someone that knows the basics of programming to get started quickly. Of course, there are many other free online high quality guides, but [...]

Today, while searching the web for any potential extra Epiphany plugins, I came accross a couple of blog posts, which, when combined together, they make a great review of my beloved web browser. Until today, I thought that falling upon Epiphany reviews was one of the rarest things to happen to me, so I decided [...]