WordPress and the power of interface
As I turned yet another blog of mine to the WordPress engine it occured to me that once again, interface rules. Once a user gets used to it, why bother learning anything else? Which also explains why...
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Tribal Shame, Doping Control and how to keep Greece’s deficit from mounting...
I should be ashamed of myself. After the Greek football team triumphed in Euro 2004 Iwas the only person in the country and probably the planet, publicly stating (and even writing) that we didn’t...
View ArticleWhy on earth did you leave CRM implementation to the IT department?
I was talking to the CEO of a market leading services company recently. He was trying to entice me to get involved, I was trying to avoid telling him too bluntly that the cosy family-style management...
View ArticleTolstoy and the Greek War of financial Independence
“War and Peace” is monumental in the way it helped create the myth of the united Russian people. Despite its size it glosses over and completely avoids going historically where the narrative would be...
View ArticleTHAT is how Onassis fans best
In one of it’s versions, the joke involves Aristotle Onassis on his honeymoon with Jackie deep in Africa. Night after night Onassis cannot satisfy his new wife in bed as a large negro swings a large...
View ArticleHow to lose 90% of your web traffic in one day
Looking through all the analytics since moving www.alexanderchalkidis.com/blog old stuff to www.alexanderchalkidis.com/dotnet it was obvious that Google bots were not going to figure this out for...
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Last night a dj saved my life with her soup
“Mageiritsa” is a traditional Greek soup, usually served on the Saturday evening before Easter Sunday. The idea is that after fourty days of fasting, you break yourself in gently before the monster...
View ArticleThe mythology of the Greek crisis
If you have any Greek friends you have probably heard the yarns. The terrible harsh measures imposed on Greece “for the banks”. Global capitalism eating up it’s children like Saturn and not a Zeus in...
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No, I’m not burning alive: What you need to know about Greek wildfires
We have a lot of forest. Since the second world war Greece’s forest coverage has increased. I remember the first time I went walking in England with an Ordnance Survey map how shocked I was that every...
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