The Municipality of Athens and Microsoft are offering a series of basic computer skills seminars (in Athens) for single mothers, unemployed women, long-term unemployed men and women (over a year), immigrants, refugees and asylum-seekers. People who complete the 75 hour course will be issued a state-recognised certificate. Please call 210-522 1403 for details. Technorati: Greece, [...]
Via the Athens News The demographic of Greece has changed, with 10% of the population now being non-Greek. There is obviously much talk about the benefits and problems that that diversity brings including in the police force. New legislation has been passed that SHOULD allow non-Greek citizens to enrol in the police academy but the [...]
Thank you to Terry at I see Invisible People for your great “This Day in History” plugin. If you look in the sidebar, you will see the plugin in action. Once I pass the two year mark (in a few weeks!), it will start showing posts from 2005 and 2006 for any given day. I [...]
Via the Athens News An ambitious initiative has been launched by the Health ministry to make sure that every child in Greece is immunised and receives all the necessary boostershots, regardless of their nationality or residence status, by the year 2010. The president of the Hellenic Centre for Infectious Disease Control, Yiannis Pierroutsakos, who is [...]
Tonight will be an open chat. NO password. No invitation. Let’s just talk… Insults and threats will not be tolerated in any way and the open chat will be stopped if these rules are violated. You can access the chatroom here, without a password. To all friends of TINMC who know the password, if things [...]
It was a while ago since I did this post and upset one person with the fridge picture, but here are some more…
Daily Darfur is back. QuakerDave had to move from Blogger to WordPress because the old place was “blogsquatted“. Please update your links and drop QD a few words of support. It is horrible to see the hard work that he’s put into the blog being taken over by spammers. I have heard of this happening [...]
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been talking about this for a while now, with friends and family. How do you explain to the kid what that’s all about? He’s busy getting the James Bond series that comes out every Sunday on a major national newspaper (Ethnos) but he does notice the porn. There [...]
The 6th African Food, Music and Handicrafts Festival 2007, Athens I went on Sunday. I loved it and remembered Maya Angelou and her poem We are more alike I note the obvious differences in the human family. Some of us are serious, some thrive on comedy. Some declare their lives are lived as true profundity, [...]
DD live is up tonight at CHATZY. (Apologies to ED and Z, who came last week when I had stupid microsoft problems and got back in too late). I miss you guys! Go to the chatroom here. If you don’t know what to do, go to DD live at the top of the page. If [...]
Ev Nucci tagged me in a magazine meme that was started by Andy Beal What magazines do you read? Well, I am the most boring person on the face of the earth for this meme. I don’t read any magazines. I have no subscriptions. I never have had and probably never will have. However, I [...]
It’s Kevin’s (Thin Black Duke) birthday. Have a good one, my friend, despite the bittersweet occasion. Go and say hi. Post about his brother on your blog. Buy him a gift if you can. Do something today in honour of my friend. Much love and a Happy birthday. Spread the Word Hide Sites
Does any of this sound depressingly familiar to those of us who lived through the Athens Olympics 2004 ? From the Guardian Olympic site Gypsies fight removal Families of Gypsies and Travellers launched a legal challenge today over plans to move them to make way for the Olympic village. Their lawyers asked a high court [...]
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