So I am off tomorrow morning to Georgitsi, a beautiful village in the Taygetos mountain near Sparta. I’ll be heading there with some friends to have a good time, and spend the Easter holidays. So unless excessive amounts of food and alcohol take up all of my time, I plan to do some reading as well; I’ll take Dexter by Design with me, the new novel by Jeff Lindsay, to see what happens when Dexter returns from his honeymoon in Paris 
I return to Athens on Monday, but I don’t plan on sticking around. I’ll probably go to Larissa on Tuesday, and then to Kavala on Thursday to meet up with the gang there. And, of course, on Saturday, 25/04 I’ll be in Thessaloniki. The reason?
Yup, one week after ASOT 400 Armin van Buuren is back in Greece, this time in Thessaloniki and I plan to be there. A night to remember for sure, as only Armin can deliver. My next blog post will probably contain lots of info about that particular event, so until then, I want to wish everyone a happy Orthodox Easter and see you soon!
March! Winter is behind us (although I do wonder what kind of winter this was; it seemed more like a prolonged Autumn here in Greece) and it's the time to start something new. As I blogged last week, as of today I no longer work for Siemens. Instead I will be helping out a little company called Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD in short. I don't believe in karma and stuff like that, but I find it a strange turn of events that I will be able to work with the company I have been a supporter since I first got a computer - just the fact that in my 15 years of owning a PC, I've only owned three non-AMD processors (and trust me, I have upgraded more than three times :p) should tell all. I will be helping out as a Technical PR Manager for European Online Media, a far cry from the C++ programming I did for Siemens the past year.
Because of that, I had to resign from my SuperModerator status in both Rage3D and Driverheaven, which was kind of awkward because up until a month ago I never saw myself doing a thing like that. I also had to stop being a freelancer for PC Magazine here in Greece, for the same reasons, which are pretty self-explanatory I believe.
So, as I said, new month, new challenges ahead - hopefully all will go well :)
P.S Wonder if I should start dropping hints on future AMD products in order to increase my blog's visibility now :sherlock:
An era comes to an end when this month closes. The reason is simple: I quit my job over at Siemens. It was a great year, in which I learned many new things, and hopefully I helped my colleagues and the company I currently work for. But, I can hear you ask, what are you going to do? Well, the reason I quit is because I got a job offer I simply could not refuse. Obviously some people who talk to me privately already know what this is all about, but I'd rather not reveal what I am going to do yet.
Stay tuned next week for updates; same Bat-time, same Bat-blog :D
I haven't updated this blog in ages, and there's proper reason for that: too much work these days. I think I'll start hating C++ (yes, that bad). Anyway, apart from that, I decided to stick with openSUSE for now, and not only that, but I've completed the configuration of my OS just the way I like it. Yes, I kept notes too, which simply means that the second part of last month's OpenSource Journal is on the way.
Not much else really... the next post will probably be the Journal entry, I'll try to finish it within the upcoming weekend. Click on to see how my current desktop looks like:
So... 2007 is upon us eh. First of all, may I wish a very merry Happy New Year to whomever reads these lines and actually cares what's up in the Kombatant Lair these days. The past week was rather uneventful, which is definitely a good thing - not much happening at work, 15min drive to get there (gotta love it when Athens is empty due to vacations :)), heaven I tell you!
Oh, I got myself a new toy, as you can probably see in the image that accompanies this post. Yup, I am back to Nokia, and this time I got myself a proper Symbian phone, the N80 (black edition of course). This thing has practically everything + the kitchen sink, and it should keep me occupied for quite a while. I especially love the fact that it's got Wi-Fi capabilities, so I can connect easily to my wireless ADSL router here at home and browse the net without having to sit in front of my PC. Plus, I've downloaded a whole bunch of cool apps, including VNC clients, media players and so on and so forth. If only the battery would last longer (only two days)... :bleh:
By the way, I think I made up my mind about what distro I will use. OpenSUSE is nice et al, but something doesn't quite click about it. I don't know how to put it really, it's just not a distro that'll make a fan out of you. So I'll probably install Gentoo at some point (unless I chicken out and go back to Ubuntu - yeah I know, my decisiveness is mind-blowing :p)
So Happy New Year Everyone, and don't believe
ALL the R600 rumours that are flying around these days ;)
P.S As you probably noticed I changed the top graphic somewhat - this comes from a great wallpaper I found over at
interfacelift.com, and to be more specific, from
Pacific City by
Chris Fenison.
...well, even if a bit late. Lots of alcohol, lots of food these days, I desperately need to digest all this stuff I've eaten - well, that's the true Greek spirit so I can't complain :)
I think I also recharged the batteries quite a bit this long weekend (Sat-Tue), and I needed that. Now I've got a couple of articles for PC Magazine Greece in the pipeline (I work there as a freelancer in case some of you don't know), and debating with myself whether I should stick to openSUSE or change my distro once again and go back to the world of Gentoo, which is what I had before the whole Ubuntu craze started couple of years ago.
Oh, and I work tomorrow. Hopefully it'll be nice and quiet over at Siemens DI&P HQ :D
Well, I practically changed my avatar in every main forum I post (and on MSN too :p). Here's the original:
As for the new sig (
Pain and misery always hit the spot, Knowing you can't lose what you haven't got), many of you probably recognised it as a snip from Depeche Mode's Lillian. It's taken from some personal stuff I am going through right now.
Oh, and thanks Olga ;)
