Everything About You!

One of my favorite pastimes is downloading. Actually, I am a download junkie. And one of the things I enjoy the most is downloading other people's private data. You know, many p2p sharing networks impose a sharing limit in order for you to be accepted so the question is:

"How are we gonna reach this limit???"

The easiest answer is:

"Share My Documents and my Windows directory!!!"

Voila! We have just reached some gigabytes of sharing! However, what all these folks do not take into account, is that their documents and Windows directory contain far more data than what they would like the world to know about them. Examples: your and your family's photographs, your dissertation, your resume, even your bank and credit card details and passwords! So, whenever I come across some folk who tries to "cheat" the p2p community by sharing crap, I very carefully dig into his share and download whatever one can imagine. Examples of staff I have downloaded only recently:

1. A guy's whole mobile phone catalog!
2. A guy's whole mobile photos catalog!
3. Some dozen guys' dissertations and papers for their schools!
4. A guy's resume with full home address, phones and name particulars! Not to mention, that it was scanned bearing the fax addressees!!!

This for, everybody should be more careful [much much much more careful] with what he decides to make public. Because - yeah! I am talking to you! - we may share things in order to bypass someone or something but let us keep in mind that what's exactly what these - once personal - things become: SHARED!

Photo Album Initiation

My two first photos have been uploaded. You may see them here. As a matter of fact I used Picasa for the job and it striked me pleasantly that this software is getting better and better over time.

From Honda Jazz

At last, a freeware that is not destined to become abandonware, because most of the time a company offers some software for free but what happens is that very few and minor improvements over the software actually take place. Thanks God this is not the case with Picasa [let us not forget to thank harsh Web companies competition as well!].

Give it a try by clicking the banner on the right.

Helena Paparizou "The Game of Love" [95/100]

I really think that everyone should check out Helena Paparizou's new album "The Game of Love".

In my humble opinion, it is one of the most professionally crafted Greece-related music products. And I really mean this. Even the accent is 99% US sounding [although the album is clearly Europe-oriented!]. Sorry for the 1% but in some words the Greek accent drops by.


As for the compositions, they are very easy going and within the current music trends [listen for example to "Somebody's Burning"]. Helena's voice is exceptional which is more than obvious on "Teardrops", "Gigolo" and "The Game of Love". Those of you who remember the 80's will recognize a Taylor Dayne tone in the more western styled songs.

Above all, give an ear [or two or three or four or...] to "Carpe Diem [Seize The Day]". I firmly believe that we are in front of a massive superhit. Hopefully, with the right support from the label...

We should also not forget to mention the high quality art design of the album booklet as well which was a very pleasant surprise.