Over the past couple of weeks my mom has conveyed to me her desire to receive some small gift from me. Obviously her true desire is not for the gift itself as much as for my attention and affection, which sometimes I may not work as hard to convey towards her.
You see, moms [...]
16 Jan
Posted by elvis as Albanian Blogger, Internet Related, Personal
Today I did a little search to try and figure out how widespread was the brand name “Albanian Blogger” and to my surprise Google reported about 1,010 entries, most of which referred directly to this Blog (or its older version).
However, after page 10 or results, Google had a note at the end of the page, [...]
15 Jan
Posted by elvis as About Books, Albanian Blogger, Entertainment & Media, Internet Related, Personal
I’m very sad about this but the fact remains that we continue to experience the same technical difficulties with our Online Albanian Bookstore at ShtepiaeLibrit.com
From talking to the server technicians of our hosting company, they say that the issue has to do with an upgrade of the server, which happened right after the failure of [...]
27 Dec
Posted by elvis as Albanian Blogger, Internet Related, Personal
It has been 10 days now since the server that hosts my Blog “failed due to a severe hard drive failure at approximately 7:30am” on 17 December 2007. Needless to say that the whole thing was frustrating to say the least, as all my websites are hosted on that server and this time of the [...]
Snow has become somewhat of a rare thing in Tirana. But today, it snowed!
The forecast was correct and for a couple of hours the whole city was laid with a thin white blanket of snow. It was truly enjoyable to walk out in the snow and watch it land on the glass of the windshield [...]
04 Dec
Posted by elvis as Daily Life in Tirana, Internet Related, Personal
As some of you might remember, some time ago I got ADSL Internet Service for my house. I did not want to make public the name of the ISP on this Blog because I wanted to test their service for a while before writing again on the topic.
Well, that day has come. The Internet [...]
24 Nov
Posted by elvis as Albanian Blogger, Personal
Hello there dear friends and visitors,
I know that this will come as a surprise to many of you, but the truth is that this was the next logical step for me in this whole blogging process that I’ve been going through for the past months and years. Some of you will remember my decision [...]