http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens a swiss geek in Athens 2012-01-31T22:03:07Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1234 I'm sitting in the TGV from Paris to Zurich, thinking about the last few days. On last Thursday I had flown to Paris, where I met Saad at the airport. It was cold in Paris, but it hadn't been that warm in Athens. The first two days in Paris were sunn... travel betabug 2012-01-31T22:03:07Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1233 Right now I'm in the Athens hackerspace. What's that? It's a semi-subterranean space, set up by some dedicated geeks, hackers, tinkerers. It's being used for all kind of open source projects, both in software and hardware. The first time I came here,... athens betabug 2012-01-23T19:17:10Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1232 Letzten Sonntag hat es seit längerer Zeit wiedermal eine Demonstration der " Empörten " (Αγανακτισμένοι) gegeben. Es waren viel weniger Menschen als letzten Sommer, nach Schätzungen so um die 2000 Menschen. Das ist aber auch verständlich, für Athener... athens betabug 2012-01-17T09:28:30Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1231 Here's what I'm reading at the moment: " Shop Class as Soulcraft " , by Matthew B. Crawford. This books makes a lot of valid points about how our work moved away from what we do with our hands and our minds towards some automated, rule based corporat... media betabug 2012-01-14T14:07:39Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1230 Yesterday, we were out hiking in the Parnitha mountains with a group of people from ΕΔΑΣΑ (E.DAS.A. Volunteers Of Forest Fire-Watching Of Attica). We took the gondola lift up to the casino, complete with plush carpets and gilt framed mirrors. Then we went out into the cold... hiking fire photography betabug 2012-01-09T19:53:24Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1229 Im grad frisch angebrochenen Jahr 2012 fallen die Griechischen Ostern auf den 15. April. Die katholischen Ostern sind am 8. April 2012, da ist dieses Jahr also nur eine Woche dazwischen. Wer Griechische Ostern mit viel Tamtam erleben will, für den wü... life betabug 2012-01-03T13:28:56Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1228 Happy New Year to everybody! This is my traditional combined New Year's and Blog-Anniversary post. I've had this weblog running for seven years now. While the weblog has settled on a slow pace in the last few years, by the end of this year it picked up a little bit, if not in actual posts, then at least in spirit. Yes, I feel much more like posting stuff on here. I'm no way back to my old rhythm (of about one post per day), but sometimes there are two or days in a row when I post something, yay! media betabug 2012-01-01T12:28:26Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1227 There were few family obligations this christmas, so I was able to do, what the holidays are actually there for: Slack and read and stuff myself with chocolates. In fact, I started the program early. On the 22nd I had bought tome II and III of Stieg Larsson's "Millenium Trilogy" ("The Girl Who Played with Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"), having read the first one some while back ("The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"). So for a few days and excluding a season's invitation, I was glued to a soft seat, reading on. Now these books are what George Orwell termed "good bad books"... culture betabug 2011-12-30T18:51:48Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1226 Vor ein paar Tagen bin ich auf dem Nachhauseweg noch schnell beim Supermarkt vorbei, mit der klassischen Frage: " Was könnte ich denn so auf die schnelle zu essen machen? " Eine scheibe Lachs fiel mir dann auf, mehr oder weniger frisch, wie das halt ... food betabug 2011-12-23T14:56:57Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1225 Actually I didn't record when the big project of a total overhaul of Line 1 started (the " Ilektrikos " or " Treno " as the Athenians call it, " green line " as the foreigners seem to call it). In July 2009 I posted an image of the Petralona subway station u... athens betabug 2011-12-20T12:04:16Z