Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Site deconstruction

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

I completely messed up the vistered little theme that ran this site when I upgraded. Management console is cooler but I can’t find a Theme I like and I’m too lazy to edit one and make it new.  These days motivation is sparse.

Paris!

Friday, August 1st, 2008

 Oye!  Finding a place in Paris for the September timeframe that is reasonable price and clean comfortable!  Help!

Reggie Middleton’s Boom Bust Blog

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Reggie Middleton’s Boom Bust Blog

is a weblog by a financial guy who has an interesting approach to information reporting.  Quoted from seekingalpha.com:

freethinking maverick—the penultimate nonconformist as it applies to macro strategies, investment, and analysis

Happymaker?

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Q: What the heck is Demetre in Greek?

A: The Happy Maker! 

Known as XAPANIS (ka-ran-nis) or " The Happy Maker" in Greece, my ancestors produced some of the finer spirits (okay, they had a traveling distillery) on the Island of Lemnos, located in the beautiful Aegean sea.

The stuff was so good that when my great-great-great-…(way back)…….grandfather would come to town, the villagers would say: "here comes the happy-maker!"

So he changed his name to XAPANIS (ka-ran-nis) meaning happy-maker.
When my Grandfather came over from Greece to the USA he changed his name from DEMETRIUS XAPANIS to James Charanis and I was named after him. Here is the house where he was born:

I have not forgotten that tradition of keeping my customers happy.
Years of experience working with corporate clients of all types has taught me how to help my customers find solutions to their information management problems.

Here is another article of someone who traced their roots back to this lovely island

Pictures and info on the town:  Lemnos Villages

Web 2.0 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

As my company continues to change with the times we are embracing web 2.0 stuff.  I need to learn more about this.

2.0 websites typically include some of the following features/techniques:

Pandora – radio you create

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Pandora

My friend Andy turned me on to this little web application.  Interesting.  

Tim Westergren crated the Music Genome Project: 

Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song – everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It’s not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records – it’s about what each individual song sounds like.

This web application will create and play a list of songs based on an artist you chose and the attributes of that artist.  I’ve not looked into the Genome but its picking interesting artist much like the old classics I like. 

 

Jim

Google Maps – personalized – Jim’s map of north Atlanta

Friday, March 28th, 2008

What an absolutely cool idea.  Here is an accumulation of places near the Hilton Norcross and Atlanta. 


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A small street in Atsiki Lemnos, Greece

Friday, March 21st, 2008


Where my grandfather was born.

Crazy Purim Kids

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

 Happy Purim

The kids dressed up today!!

crazy charanis kids on purim

Video Random Post

Saturday, March 15th, 2008