User:Project2501a

Hello! You have reached my page, obviously... :D My name is George Angel Marselis or Γεώργιος Άγγελος Μαρσέλης (in Greek) or Anjin (あんじん) (in Japanese) or Dmi (In EFnet#C speak) :)

This page needs w-ork :[

My Brood Zergling Hatchery

What I'm listening to right now:

• Gil Scott-Heron The Revolution, my brothers, will not be televised!'
• Saul Williams And you don't stop, you don't stop... Cuz' Hip-Hop, you're the love of my life...
• The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
• Pink Floyd - The Wall Because I feel comfortably numb...
• Depeche Mode - Reach out and touch Faith, because Faith feels kinda frisky tonight... ;)
• KMFDM - Dissobidience!
• Front 242 - 05:22:09:12 Off
• Active Member - Εδώ, στου κόσμου τη γωνιά...
• Ghost In The Shell OST
• Japanese flute for Zen Medetation: for those difficult times where I just have to bootstrap the dissassembler ;)

Quotes that motivate me:

"Impossible is nothing. Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world that they have been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a decleration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing" from an ad, staring World Championship Boxer Muhammad Ali.

"When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child. Now that I am a man, I have no more use for childish ways and I can speak my mind in my own voice..." Major Motoko Kusonagi, from my favorite movie of all times: Ghost In the Shell (Kôkaku kidôtai - 攻殻機動隊).

People that inspire me

• Actor James Earl Jones Man's a Monster of Acting...
• Director Spike Lee
• Actor Patrick Stewart
• Professor Donald Knuth
• World Championship Boxer Muhammad Ali

Yes, I am Greek. Unfortunately.

I'm also a member of Patras Wireless Network, the first, historically, city-wide Community wireless network in Greece. PWN is the article i'm currently trying to make something out of.

Pages I'm watching:

• Greece
• Rebetiko
• Politics of Greece
• Conscription in Greece
• Ghetto
• Newark, New Jersey
• Omega Psi Phi
• Karate or karate-do (空手道)
• Shotokan (松涛館) "Because when I block, I block ALL up in hea!" -- Sensei Lonnie Jones (http://www.afma-karate.com/LONNIEJONESFrame1Source1.htm).
• Kendō (剣道)

Pages that i want to create/working currently on:

Places and languages

• Patra
• Conscription in Greece
• Greek language - Δημοτική & Καθαρεύουσα
• New Jersey Institute of Technology My alma matter.
• American Federation Of Martial Arts

People

• Νίκος Ξυλούρης (Nikos Xilouris)
• Σταύρος Ξαρχάκος (Stavros Xarhakos)
• Διονύσης Σαββόπουλος (Dionisis Savvopoulos)
• Μάνος Χατζιδάκης (Manos Hadjidakis)
• Μίκις Θεοδωράκης (Mikis Theodorakis)
• Κώστας Φέρρης (Kostas Ferris)
• Στράτος Μυριβίλης (Stratos Mirivilis)
• Νίκος Δήμου (Nikos Dimoy)
• Τζίμης Πανούσης (Τζίμης Πανούσης)
• Νίκος Άσιμος (Nikos Asimos)

Movies

• Ρεμπέτικο (Rebetiko, The movie) A movie on Rebetiko by Greek director Κώστας Φέρρης (Kostas Ferris)
• Loafing and Camouflage (Loufa kai Parallaghi Λούφα και παραλαγή) by movie director Nikos Perakis: a comedy about the (imho) the sad, sad, sad, very sad (did i mention sad?) sutuation of Greek adults drafted into the Hellenic Army and their subsequent misuse and FUBAR-ation by their "superiors".
• ΒΙΟΣ Και Πολιτία, yet another movie by Kostas Ferris.

Software/Software Engineering

• Military Messaging Handling System NATO STANAG 4406: Military messaging handling system: A whole piece of software to delegate messages between the countries belonging in NATO. During my tour in the Greek airforce, I was a Sargent, Programmer/Analyst, but I was also "trained" in this program. I never got to use it, just got trained in its use. I was, literaly, discharged from my Guard Post

• User interface engineering standards I haven't been able to find a good description of what a good gui should consist of, or how data maps into a GUI. Personally, I think of GUI programming/design as meta-programming/design, because to me, it doesn't have to do with programming (as in the algorithmic solution to a problem) as much as it has to do with the pictorisation(sp?)/visualisation of data (how data is re/presented). So, I am looking to put together a guide that explains the basic features of a modern gui and their functions, (command buttons, checkboxes, radio boxes, textboxes, etc, etc), how to use them and how to deliver (within a rule of thumb) a consistent interface. I will acknowledge that Microsoft and Apple have gone a long way into researching User interface engineering (i should place the URLs to the apple gui standards). but more needs to be out in the open. I haven't found any good books on the topic, either. Most of the literature I have gone over assumes the user is a moron and is programming in MS Windblows... :)

Articles applying specifically to Greece

• Guard Duty. So, what's a (very) bored software engineer going to do, while on tour in the Greek Armed Forces, with tons of time in his hands, a intel P90 laptop running Debian, is going to do? Why, copy the functions of the software, make an exact duplicate that works like the original one, add extra functionality with Perl on it, so the incomming mail gets distributed automatically, then, watch his CO give him a lecture about how you're not supposed to innitiate change in the greek armed forces... See, the greek armed forces are like the Greek Orthodox Church: Neither likes change.
• 251 General Hospital of Hellinic Airforce
• 116 Πτέρυγα Μάχης, Άραξος (116 Combat Wing, Araxos, Achaia)
• Hellenic Airforce
• Conscription in Greece
• Omhroi.gr
• Greeklish
• Copyright laws in Greece
• Hellenic National Intelligence Service Current page looks like a PR release and doesn't mention any of the service's dark history.

Music

• Low Bap
• Active Member

Books

• Η δυστυχία του να είσαι Έλληνας a book by Νίκος Δήμου (Nikos Dimoy) that critisizes the Neo-Hellenic attitude and it's (unfortunate) implications to Greek life and economy.

Conscription In Greece

150 draftee soldiers have died in the past 10 years in the Greek Armed forces. Greek goverment enforces mandatory draft service, in a time of peace, claiming that Greece is threatened by the enemy from the east (Read: Turkey) continuing an enduring and FUBARed situation ever since the 1950s. Draft soldiers are innadequetly trained, innadequetly paid( €8.7/month for grunts, €11/month for draft saergents], innadequetly fed and housed. Those deaths are due to gross negligence/ignorance/disregard of common safety rules, by COs and NCOs alike, plain gross indifference on the part of the draftees, due to the mandatory/non-proffesional nature of the service (read: non-paying), all in the service of special and local interests in Greece. Please help us end mandatory draft service (http://www.omhroi.gr/psifisma.html) in Greece.

Read more about Conscription and Conscription in Greece, specifically.

External Links

"Όμηροι" _(en) (http://www.omhroi.gr/index.php?newlang=eng)_(el) (http://www.omhroi.gr/) means "hostages" in Greek. The following banner reads that "We are hostages of the draft, the past and of military expenditures". Greece spends USD$6.12 billion (FY99/00 est.) per year on military expenditures, 4.91% percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product. We spend more money per capita than any other country in the EU. In the Middle East, we are second only to Israel, in military spending.

"Μάνα Μου Ελλάς"
Music: Nikos Xarhakos (Νίκος Ξαρχάκος)
Lyrics: Nikos Gkatsos (Νίκος Γκάτσος)

I'm a sexy bitch ^_^.