The BBC has a great series called Last Chance to See, in which a zoologists and Stephen Fry go around the globe to see species on the brink of extinction, to take some good photos, and to hopefully raise awareness so that we don't lose them.In a recent episode the New Zealand Kakapo (a flightless parrot) was featured and the zoologist...well let's say that the parrot fancied him ;-)

Last weekend I was smelling a few dollar bills in my wallet - I don't know why - but I noticed that they had a bizarre smell. I have not smelled money since I was 12 or something like that. As a kid I was also a big fan of DuckTales...so it was quite funny when this SNL skit came on Moral of the story?Careful of dirty money ;-)

Εδώ και καιρό χρησιμοποιώ το πρόγραμμα gv mobile στο iPhone για να έχω πρόσβαση στο google voice. Όπως είναι γνωστό η apple έβγαλε όλες τις εφαρμογές από το AppStore που έχουν να κάνουν με αυτή την υπηρεσία, ευτυχώς που είχα κατεβάσει την εφαρμογή

Don't get me wrong, there are institutions out there that are credible (and accredited) institutions of learning that have online branches for students who are far away, or have jobs and can't drop everything to pursue their education. But there are cases of diploma mills that grant MBAs to dogs how is it not easy to poke fun at online institutions? :-) This video is from last week's Saturday Night

Σήμερα μου ήρθε πρόσκληση για το google wave (γιουπι!), οπότε σήμερα δοκίμασα την νέα υπηρεσία. Το κακό είναι πως ακόμα δεν έχω αρκετούς γνωστούς που είναι και αυτοί προσκεκλημένοι οπότε δεν είναι και τόσο χρήσιμο. Παρά ταύτα άρχισα

One of the biggest stories over this past weekend was the Great Sidekick Fail of 2009. As a prospective user (well, OK, low chances of being a prospective user now) this incident is causing a lot of alarms to go off. Both Engadget and other sources (HipTop 3 for example) are pointing to a lack of backups and a failure to move servers or merge data. Well, OK, the failure to merge data or move to different

I know that this video is old (and I've probably posted it before) but here it is again: Random people asked what a Browser is:Now, I get that most laymen just click on the big blue "e" on their Windows PC, or have a friend that has forced them to use Firefox, but if you are using a tool, don't you want to know a little about it? I am not saying that you should know how stuff works inside your computer

I saw this trailer for Plato's Academy - a new Greek comedy (it seems).It's times like these that I wish my local theater (which does make a point to show artsy films) had Greek cinema as well.Heck, Peabody is right next door and there are lots of Greeks there, maybe they should have a Greek Film of the Month ;-)This trailer was also good ;-)

When NetNewsWire announced that they will support Google Reader syncronization I almost jumped for joy since that meant that I could use a desktop RSS reader. I also said f***! because I had spent cash on byline for my iPhone.So how does the free RSS reader fare against byline? Well, I am still glad that I spent money on byline because it runs circles around NetNewsWire. While the free version of

It seems like the previous adieu Geocities was a little premature since Yahoo gave it a stay of execution. Now the time has come upon us as the old school daddy of free web-hosting is turning off the lights.I am wondering if my geocities email address will work after this (not that I've used it in recent years.The one problem that I see is that a lot of websites have been hosted by Geocities in the