World Cup 2010 is starting today, and as usual I will try to give some betting predictions (or at least what I will be betting on) Obvious disclaimer, if you bet on my suggestions and you lose, don’t come nagging and asking for money from me, you are on your own on this! Disclaimer no [...]

Eurovision 2010 is over, and here are some of the songs i liked: First of all, France. I don’t think that they had a “typical” Eurovision song, but somehow their song put me into “World Cup” mood. It was definitely summer-ish, and frankly, i expected more (position wise). Then, the winner, Germany. It is not [...]

I had a discussion with a friend the other day, about what is marketing, and when I received this email, I immediately thought of our discussion Unfortunately I got the email in Greek, and therefore instead of just forwarding it, I am posting it here, translated, so she will be able to read it So, [...]

Since i was never happy with Greek TV (Star news anyone), the past few months i have been receiving all my information from online newspapers. i don’t have any specific preference, and usually i start at Google News and end up at different newspaper every time This practice has led me to believe that one [...]

Background story: We have a king. Actually no, rephrase. Sweden has a king. I don’t have one since i am Greek! The king has 2 daughters, the crown princess Victoria, and the non-crown princess Madeleine. He also has a son, Carl Philip, but the bottom line is that we only care about Victoria, since as [...]

Disclaimer: In this post i will attempt to assume the role of an economist. I do not claim to have knowledge on the subject, but judging by the current situation in Greece, i guess no one has any knowledge on the subject So, i was discussing with some people today, and at some point they [...]

For some time now, i have been writing posts with titles like “I want to believe”, and as far as i can see, i have written a lot of them Now is the time to BELIEVE. We might have failed to win the Greek football championship (and by we i mean PAOK), but at least [...]

So, flying with Ryanair is certainly an experience. For many reasons. Which i will describe below: Airport: While all “normal” flights operate from Arlanda, Stockholm, Ryanair operates from Skavsta. Obviously this is not straight forward for you guys, but to speak in Greek terms, imagine that Arlanda is Venizelos and you fly out from Lamia [...]

I have managed so far to not make any “oh my, my son is so amazing” post, but this “thing” that happened one week ago made me wanna write this post Quick background story: In our apartment, we have assigned a room to be the “office” room, where we keep the PC, study books, etc. [...]

The past few weeks we (as the people working in my company) formed a football team and we participate in a companies “championship”. So far nothing really unusual, a lot of companies do this.. The fact that made write this post is that we have 4 female colleagues playing in the team. And i am [...]