A Contest - Fiasco

Well, it was a fiasco. Just one tried to answer. Kudos to mr. Symeonidis, who gave a correct, though quite incomplete answer. Here is my submition to the matter. It is still a first draft, so I am open to suggestions. It contains the usuall spelling and grammatical errors.

WhitePagesDirect Update 1.1.1b

Just implemented some requests... An Always-On-Top option is now available, also made the auto-copy to clipboard function optional... New version can be downloaded from zkeramid.com/misc/WhitePagesDirect.zip.

update: links changed to point to latest version (1.1.2)

A Contest - update #1

Perhaps the most important keyword pair for all of you out there looking to win this contest is "state change". Try typing this into google: "state change" gas liquid...

A Contest

I now proclaim that the "First Zaf's How It Works Contest" is open!

There will be a grand prize (trully grand...) for the person who will submit (in writting) the best explanation for how cooling machines work. By "Cooling Machines" I mean refrigerators, air conditioning, any kind of machine that "produces cold".

Here's a reason for the contest: More or less, everyone has some understanding of how you can produce heat at will, but cold? How can you produce cold? So, give it your best shot. Here are some terms you may find usefull in your research: thermodynamics, heat pump, freon, gas laws...

Submissions until the 26th of september... Submissions must be in .pdf, .doc or .rtf format. No links to ready-made explanations allowed. You must write your own. Have fun!

Kudos

Made an amazing discovery about the word kudos. I had only seen the word in computer games, and always thought it was street slang for respect or something. But yesterday, while reading John Allen Paulos's site, I met the word kudized, and decided to investigate further.

Britannica told me that the word is actually greek... κύδος, meaning glory. Did a search for κύδος through google and stumbled upon this page, that, among other ancient greek names, had Θουκιδίδης, which means He Who Gives Kudos to God...
Cool, right?

Το Βιβλίο Της Τρομερής Πλάκας

After having received a request from Mr. Lipiridis, I am making available for download in .pdf format an old (really old) collection of jokes I transcribed when I was young, foolish and had lots of hair...
You can download it here or from the links to the right.

update: links changed to point to zkeramid.com

Vladstudio.com

Through Iconfactory.com, I stumbled upon Mr. Vlad Gerasimov, an amazing russian designer. There are hundreds of desktop wallpapers in his site available for download, winamp skins, replacement windows cursors and calendars. If you like his designs you can even order them in poster form. His site can be reached here.

Personal Favorite (for the time being): The Two and The Elephant

WhitePagesDirect 1.1.1 Update

I added CAPI 2.0 support to WhitePagesDirect.
This means that if you have an ISDN line,
and an ISDN Modem with CAPI 2.0 support,
then, when your phone rings,
CallerID information is routed to WhitePagesDirect

I am not sure if it works with intracom's netmod,
I think they only offer CAPI 2.0 support over their USB connection.

I tested it with an AVM Fritz ISDN Card and it works fine.
Let me know if anyone can make it work with netmod.

You can download the new version from zkeramid.com/misc/WhitePagesDirect.zip.

update: links changed to point to latest version (1.1.2)

My Bio...

In case you wanna hire me, I've posted a short bio of mine. You can download it here.