Archive for November, 2008

Wii jogging

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

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 have to be afraid ...

Athens Startup Weekend

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

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 Theodorakis. Stefanos is ...

Hungry or angry? Dog eats car:)

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

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 ...

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

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

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 ...