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Why am I always checking out Volos, the City of the Argonauts, when it is nearby Afissos where we will be staying? 37° this weekend ... let's prepare for a hot summer :-) ... and luckiliy the 200 year stone house we rented has airco. We'll be leaving an ecological foofprint large as hell but frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!

e-waste indeed

Research by Gartner shows that the number of computers in use around our globe has surpassed the legendary mark of 1 billion. So yes, that means in a world where 2.7 billion people live on less than $2 a day, there’s a computer for every six persons. Moreover, thanks to growth in emerging markets, the number of pc’s will probably have been doubled in 2014. As a result from these growing markets, more mature markets will then only count for about 30 percent of the next billion computers. Now that percentage is 58 percent.

When I read these first lines of the Reuters report, I immediately thought of e-waste. When I worked for a press agency in the United Nations headquarters last year, I covered this important issue. With the ever growing amount of mobile phones, iPods (see the Greenpeace manifest), flat screens, and … computers, the world slowly becomes one big dump place for electronic waste.

Something to think about
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yes, still alive

... but having too much work and spending too much time on Facebook. Holidays are very close now and by the time I get back, almost everybody else will be leaving - I'm taking off in what is normally considered a not-done-period. But when I get back, pressure will really be on, as my project will actually have started! Meanwhile I will be spending 2 glorious weeks in this house, near my old and dear friend Frieda who lives in Volos and has no plans on ever coming back :-). Don't be scared off by the Volos site, it is touchingly insufficient in ways to be expected.

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