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How will technology hack religion

Religion always tries to give answers to questions that can not be answered in any logical manner. With many people believing the same thing about human and world existence it’s easier for most of them to assume that the truth given by religion is the right one....

DLD 2009 conference short review

I had the luck to be one of the participants of the DLD 2009 conference. It was my first time there and I can definitely say that the conference was amazing, so I would like to share with you what happened there. Day 1: After a short opening, the first panel (Global...

Toyota Prius 2010 commercials

Here are what seem to be two upcoming commercials for the Toyota Prius 2010 model. The new model will be presented at the Detroit Show on 12th January and will go on sale on April 2009. Enjoy the...

Lava lamp or aquarium? Your best randomizer

I believe that one of the things that helps human brain to expand and to think more creatively is to observe a random movement. In reality we are not very used to observe these events. Our mind usually expects what’s going to happen in the next few seconds...

Amazon ec2 Europe

Amazon just updated their feature guide to include information related to the launch of European ec2 regions. This is something highly anticipated by many companies in Europe. We will be deploying both Magnet commerce and Zuni greek social network on the cloud during...

Wii jogging

Here is another application that combines real world with computers. Wii jogging is an application for Wii that allows you to go for jogging at Tokyo using Google Streetview. You are jogging at the actual roads of Tokyo, in the middle of the roads (you don’t...

Athens Startup Weekend

It’s really hard to start writing such a blog post on 1:45 AM Saturday night, but the time is perfect for the thoughts I would like to share. Since Friday I participate in the Athens Startup Weekend event. I am on a team with Stefanos Vasdekis and Dimitris...

Hungry or angry? Dog eats car:)

I was really trying to figure out how to name the new category that this post should fall into. I believe I found a good name: “Hard to believe”. The slide show below shows how I found my car after having it parked on a road in an area called Vrilisia, at...

Tutorial: Running a php/mySQL server on EC2 with EBS

Last week I did a presentation on Amazon Web Services meet up in Greece. During the presentation I showed how you can start an AMI of fedora 8 base, install apache, php and mySQL and make them all store their data on an EBS volume. This attracted a lot of attention...

Microsoft launches Azure, a cloud computing platform

Cloud computing is one of the hottest industries right now. There are several companies already offering services like Amazon, Rackspace, Joyent, Slicehost, Gogrid and Aptana. Today Microsoft launched Azure, a cloud for applications designed for Microsoft Products....