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I barely managed to climb the stairs and let myself in our apartment, today. It seems all those nights with little to no sleep triggered the most strict of all my body and mind defenses in an effort to understand that I need to rest. Something's telling me that I must somehow follow those orders or risk another breakdown..

I wrote a tiny Ajax (client + gateway) framework last night, just to see how this all Ajax concept works. It is, indeed, really cool. It's so cool I may even sit down and build (God forbidden) an AJAX based web-app for some projects I have in mind. Cool stuff, when one has free time. I don't.

PES, short for Pro Evolution Soccer, or Winning Eleven in Japan is perhaps the most addictive and well designed game, ever (hm, along with some great ones from the past..). I am not into football at all, yet, when our buddy Jim lured us into playing a few matches with him, we got stuck. Once or twice a week, we gather at our place and play for a 2 or 3 hours, and, let me tell you, we are having a blast. If you want to have some fun with your friends, consider this game.

Speaking of games, I got my Nintendo DS Lite Black edition from Amazon.co.uk today, along with a few books I have ordered. Alas, Mario Kart DS and another book didn't make it with this shipment, they should be here on Monday. So nothing to play on this slick sexy little game machine for now. This is interesting, by the way. Why the DS Needs to be Nintendo’s iPod.

Microsoft, as you probably have read by now, is preparing an 'iPod killer', due this Christmas. As far as I am concerned, competition is a great thing, regardless the very possible failure Microsoft is facing with such an idea.

Stephen Hawking Makes a Cameo on Yahoo! answers, asking about possible ways to deal with the imminent extinction of the human kind. Yup, that's the very Stephen Hawking you have in mind.

Do you want to know how Google really works?. I bet you do.

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Mark Papadakis

Moires, Heraklio, Crete, Greece
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Favorite Quotations

  • Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works best.
  • Focus is a matter of deciding what things you are not going to do.
  • Simple is Beautiful
  • In the information age, the barriers [to entry into programming] just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.
  • Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
  • Easy is what I know, difficult is what I don't.

    Activity Log

  • 20.11 19:21  At home. Dora's making pasta. Upgrading xbox 360. Tons to do. Donkeys are nice.
  • 17.11 20:07  At home, having cocoa, working on stuff. Going to play Fable II or Fallout 3 later.



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