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Club Admiralty Blog

A blog about life in general, in as many languages as I can manage. Ενα ιστολόγιο περι ζωής, πολυγλωσσο - σε όσες γλωσσες εχω μεράκι να γράψω.

To retire or not to retire that blog?

A lot of people will consider what I am writing as heresy, but I do think that people should retire some of their blogs if they have multiple blogs going. In the past month a retired my two year old blog called Ενα μηλο την ημέρα (an apple a day) which is a Greek blog on Apple related news and tech. I also retired my first Greek blog
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History of the Internet

Here's and interesting (short) animated documentary on the history of the internet.For most geeks among us this is common knowledge, but it's a good video to get those among us who don't know much about the origins of the internet up to speed :-)
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Television Tuesday: Demons

One of this season's ITV series that I enjoyed watching is Demons.It takes place in modern London (if I am not mistaken), and it follows the life of the last of the Van Hellsings (Luke) who just found out that all that was written about vampires and demons is true.Philip Glenister (or Life on Mars fame) is his godfather who apprentices Luke into the world of cleansing this world of half-lives (their
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Yahoo Briefcase - RIP

One more service to bite the dust - Yahoo! BriefcaseI started using it when it first came out but in recent years it's taken a back seat and I started using box.net, iDisk and google docs for the various cloud-drive requirements.
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Video Game Fridays: Mickey Mouse Castle of Illusions (GG)

To tell you the truth, this was a somewhat non-memorable game.It is true that it had some great graphics, compared to other games I had played on portable platforms at the time. The story is essentially Mickey falling asleep on a fairy tale book, and he becomes the protagonist that saves the land.The stages in the game were good. As I see screenshots of the game, my memory is jogged, but it's nothing
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The origins of EGM

This article was an interesting read on IGN retro. It's an article about the origins of Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM). It brought back lot's of memories of similar gaming magazines I used to buy in Greece at that time :-)Look at that first cover! The graphics are indeed indicative on a bygone era!
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My computer is obsolete :-)

It's funny to think that my PowerBook G4 is now obsolete...or vintage as TUAW puts it.Amazingly, my PowerBook runs with few problems, and I can still do (almost) everything I need to do on it - if you exclude the brain aneurism it had a few years back and it can do WiFi, Accelerated Video and Audio.I post this from my obsolete Mac. The funny thing is that an obsolete Mac is still better than an Obsolete
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Television Tuesdays: Monk

Monk is quirky.Monk is obsessive compulsiveMonk is a crime solverMonk is a show you should be watching.This series, now in its final (8th) year, follows a former police detective Adrian Monk. He has a big case of the OCD and it's this quirkyness that makes the series funny among other things. Monk's life hasn't been easy, and after his wife is killed in a bomb explosion, this throws him in a loop.
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The 3G iPhone

Not the iPhone 3G (meaning that it runs on HSPA), but the 3rd Generation (3G) iPhone...in other words the third iteration of the phone.I know it's just a model, but it's pretty cool.Make the Camera a 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics and I'm game ;-)
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Video Game Fridays: R-Type (GB)

R-type was one of those games that came bundled with game boys one christmas in Greece (along with Gargoyle's Quest and Dr. Mario if I remember correctly). This was the point where many of my friends jumped into the whole game boy thing, and I could borrow this game from many friends.In truth, I only got through the first two stages of the game, but the replayability factor of this game is sky high!
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