OTEnet ADSL

It seems that there is another ISP – OTEnet, which is starting providing ADSL at their own DSL platform in Cyprus. From what I know now is that they do have their own platform (so they do not use I-Choice), that they have competitive prices, that they have options for more than 1.5MBits and that they have quite good channels for going out of Cyprus.

I am working with OTEnet for while already, since I use their service in Greece and they seem to be quite good. I have also heard nice feedback from people who use them in Cyprus, but I never had chance to check them here. What I can tell for sure, is that I had very nice support from them when I was getting a line in Greece.

Gave car to repairs

I have finally gave my car to mechanics to repair the door after the accident with my neighbor. In addition to the door, I asked the guys to check some minor stuff and fix it (on my expenses), since I have to do this sooner or later. Meanwhile, the garage have kindly provided me with another car (also Mazda) which I can use until they fix mine. I think I will consider using this garage later myself if I need something :)

Benefits of Blogging

The JRB Technology Blog has a nice post which described some benefits of blogging as well as touches the issue of what and how one should post (in some way). As it clear for me why I do have a blog and I post there: in most of the cases I just want to share of my technical experience and rarely I just want to post something about an event in my life. So people do still miss a point on what is blogging and here I totally agree with the post on JRB Technology Blog that says: \”Now, don’t go out there, start a blog, and post a bunch of crap. Post information people can actually use\”. This is the main point – either post some useful info (about your profession or your life), or don\’t just post at all.

I don\’t know if I am getting too critical on this, but this is how I see things around.

Cyprus Blog Network

Ok, I think it is time to checkup what is going on on the Cyprus Blog Network. As I have mentioned some time before, I will be checking around there and will see if it worse of checking it up.

I can see daily posts there and what is more important I read most of them till the end. This is what I like. I also like the forum functionality on the CBN (though it is yet simple) and finally, I can see that the list of friends and members is growing, which is also good. The only thing which CBN is currently missing is active users. I would like to see more people posting around and I believe that this is how it should be.

For the time being I will continue checking the Cyprus Blog Network since there is content I like over there :)

Tomboy Notes Applet

Still playing around FC6 and stuff included :). This time I came around the TomBoy Notes applet for GNOME which provides user with a feature of creating notes. I have seen similar stuff many times (including KNotes in KDE), but this one is much better just because of one additional feature: you can link some text of one note to a other note.

It looks like some simple Wiki for desktop. Very handy. Sometime I just have too many things which are related but are too much to be put on one note. With TomBoy, I can have all my ideas, todos and other stuff organized and easy accessible.