I classify this under the “business” category, because it has to do with bad sales, in other words bad business. It can also be taken as a funny little story or a continuation of a very recent post on Greece’s digital crawl.
The place is a local, central, well established, official Vodafone shop. The time is [...]
Terminator movies have always struck this sensitive human chord. We are the creators and masters of machines, so what would happen if machines one day became intelligent enough and rebelled against us? It is a scary scenario but I am not a pessimist and believe that such a day is still a long way ahead [...]
If you haven’t yet upgraded your Wordpress installation to version 2.7, just run and do it. The screen above is for new posts and it is all the money.
Finally! We can use screen estate for new blog entries without wasting it with the terrible design of previous versions.
Finally! Tags are again on the right of the text [...]
The time has come sooner than we all thought. PC Mag is going 100% online from January 2009. Unsurprisingly, the much awaited move comes from a computer related publication reaching out to “Internet ready” customers, not having to worry about how existing clients will access the digital content. Surprisingly, the online format will remain that [...]
Back in May the Burj Dubai became officially the tallest structure in the world. But May was also the time when europeans Robin Schmidt and Jan Bednarz managed to get inside the building pretending to be engineers and did the first base jump from 650m up! As mentioned, the Burj Dubai will be built to [...]
GigaOM has a very interesting interview of Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell. The questions are quite direct and Michael Dell is not hiding behind his finger. He makes it very clear that desktops, laptops and notebooks remain the core of Dell’s business.
On cloud computing, Dell is participating in the infrastructure but it [...]
A few days back I lost my Canon 400D eyepiece -after cleaning it and absent mindedly forgetting it somewhere :-( Finding no help in the wonderful Greek retailers that only want to get boxes out the door without bothering for client support after that, my only choice was Intersys, the importer of Canon in Greece.
When [...]
This story is me reminding of another real story of how my ex-boss started to use computers back in the 90s. His boss called him to his office, threw at him a laptop and gave him four weeks to learn using wordprocessing, emailing and all skills necessary at the time for effective electronic communication.
Apparently Russian [...]
I have to admit that since I started this blog back in November 2007, I did not expect it to become so addictive. Writing daily became an enjoyable activity, despite the difficulty of trying to combine it with my job activities. My wife’s technical background and ideas were also very motivating, she provided much needed [...]
It all looks like great fun and I am sure it is superb stress relief. And it only costs some feathers! I am talking about massive pillow and water fights arranged via Facebook and the Internet in general. But unfortunately such events can cause considerable damage -see thousands of euros- like in the case of [...]
Maybe you do not mind RFID passport controls, after all if security wants to know something they will definitely ask. But I am sure you do mind if you are in constant danger of having your RFID data stolen by anyone that has the not-so-difficult-to-get know-how. So what do you do? But of course kill [...]
A few days ago I wrote about the new Sony PMW-EX3. Camcorderinfo has an ergonomy preview that you might find interesting. Of course, for a product that costs $13,000 everything counts, even the smallest button. For more details and photos of a pre-production PMW-EX3 you are strongly advised to check out Philip Bloom’s preview. What [...]
A few days ago I started posting “Favourite tech picture of the day” posts. These are in no way replacements for ElectronRun’s normal posts, but represent a small addition that is relaxing and fun.
Spending so much time online and lurking in different sites related to technology unavoidably reveals some super fun pictures I would like to [...]
Is blogging a lethal activity?
Maybe this post arrives a bit late, I have to admit I wanted to read the opinions of other people that are heavily involved with blogs. It all refers to a recent article by the New York Times that describes the blogging profession with pessimism and a stereotypical view. I am [...]
Arthur Clarke is a typical case of an outstanding person ahead of its time. During World War II he got involved as an officer with the British early warning radar system that was one of the decisive factors that helped turn the war tide. As early as 1945, he conceived the use of satellites and [...]
