In hindsight my Nintendo Gameboy and my first computer (1995) were a pivot point in my life and since then computer games have undoubtedly become my favourite entertainment medium. Great games made over 16 years ago still pop up in my mind as pleasant memories now and then , more vivid than books or movies..! [...]
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Watching game playthroughs/walkthroughs as movies..
Posted: 14th March 2012 by Ammar Qammaz in PostTags: Thoughts
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With all the privatisation talk going on in Greece , I have been thinking about how if IT existed before lets say 100 years it could have been included on the public sector as a proven human need such as schooling , hospitals , police , fire fighters etc. Imagine a state-run search engine , [...]
Internet Privacy and website tracking
Posted: 29th February 2012 by Ammar Qammaz in PostTags: News, Thoughts
Mozilla foundation just released a tool called collusion.. It makes a map of the sites that report and track information about your internet whereabouts..! I have made a small map of the sites that I frequently use and the interconnections are astonishing.! The major “spy entities” on the graph are Google and Facebook , something [...]
Anti ACTA protest in Athens in 11/2/2012
Posted: 9th February 2012 by Ammar Qammaz in PostTags: News
The free and open source group of AUEB ( and me along with it xD ) will join the worldwide protest against ACTA , this Saturday 11/Feb. The gathering in Athens will take place in Syntagma square at 17:00 Because of the recent economic developments concerning Greece the ACTA treaty is a topic which has [...]
The MacOS Marketing team is running out of cool animals!
Posted: 30th January 2012 by Ammar Qammaz in PostTags: Humor, Thoughts
After using up Cheetah , Puma , Jaguar , Panther, Tiger ,Leopard , Snow Leopard and Lion and having reached the king of the jungle ( the lion ) the MacOS marketing team has recently run out of cool animals for their Operating System. Since an Operating System without a big number and a cool [...]