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The Greece climate is easily defined using three main categories. An alpine mediterranean climate can be found in the high mountains of the north of the country. Heavy snowfalls occur in bitter winters and summers are cool with regular thunderstorms. A continental, temperate mediterranean climate effects much of the mainland with greater daily and annual extremes of temperature than on the islands. Winters are cold with abundant frost and heavy snowfall especially on the high ground in the west. Summers are very hot with occasional thunderstorms. Finally a dry meditteranean climate effects the Islands and low lying coastal areas of the mainland. This is typifed by dry, hot summers with abundant sunshine with warm nights and cool winters with lengthy spells of rainfall. The average annual Greece temperature has a range of 14 to 30 degrees celcius with record temperatures of -28 to +47.8 degrees.

The winter Santorini temperature in December and January ranges between 9 and 16 degrees celcius on average. In the spring time temperatures in Santorini, Greece show average values of between 10 and 17 degrees of celcius in the month of March. In June the summer mean values increase to between 19 and 28 degrees celcius. By the autumn the Santorini climate has average temperatures that fall to between 17 and 27 degrees in the months of September and October.

On the other hand Skiathos temperatures in the February winter month fall in the region of a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 14 degrees on average. After winter comes spring and the Skiathos climate warms with mean temperatures in April and May in the range of 12 to 23 degrees celcius. In July and August the summertime Skiathos temperature range is from an average low of 22 degrees to an average high of 30 degrees celcius. Average temperatures beging to fall in the autumn so that in November the Skiathos climate has records of mean temperatures of between 13 and 17 degrees low and high respectably.

They’re saying the old fashioned business card exchange hasn’t kept up with the times.

In this age of cell phones, ipods, smart phones and social networking, it should to be easier to connect with someone electronically. That thought inspired rmbrME.

This new service automates the exchange of contact information between two people. Palm Treo users once “beamed” each other their contact information through infrared connections; now rmbeME uses text messages.

rmbrME lets you send out a bzCard, which includes a standard vCard data (phone number, address etc.) plus social networking links such as direct links to your Facebook or Linkedin pages. It works from most phones, including smart phones, and on any cell phone carrier.

I’m just not sure people want to get rid of their business cards completely. Sure we can benefit by having more ways to keep important contact information. But a well designed business card can do so very much more than just store contact information…

For instance, an effective business card design can help your prospects and clients understand what product or service you provide. It can encourage them to want to keep it handy. It can help brand your company. It can help them make the decision to use your company.

So far none of these e-business card services can do any of these things.

Even when the technology can do these things, there is still a difference in actually touching and getting a feeling from a business card as opposed to looking at digital bits. We are sensory based creatures. So I don’t think we’re going to see the end of the business card for quite some time yet..

Mark

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Together classic in comprehensiveness and intimate in detail, David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button blu-ray is certainly the director’s most emotional film so far ( though Fight Club and 7 do not offer much in the way of competition).

Loosely based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald tale, this romantic drama tells the story of Benjamin Button ( Brad Pitt ), in 1918 in New Orleans as a baby with wrinkles, cataracts, and arthritis.

Benjamin will grow backwards, getting younger as he watches everyone around him growing older. Included in that group are his adoptive mum, Queenie ( Taraji P. Henson), and Daisy (Cate Blanchett), the love of his life whom he meets when she is a little girl and he is an old man.

They age in reverse, but despite Benjamin’s globe-trotting journeys, their lives regularly intersect. The script from Oscar winner Eric Roth bears more than a few hallmarks in common with his earlier work on Forrest Gump : both adaptations cross decades and continents.

But The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’s script or perhaps the fine acting aren’t its most impressive accomplishment; the technology–both CGI and makeup–used to make Benjamin and Daisy age are remarkable, and makes the blue ray movies completely plausible, but they are actually helped by fine performances from both Pitt and Blanchett. The triumph of technology only serves to underscore the wonderful thing about this film and of the love story at its heart.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button sighs with longing and boils with intrigue while investigating the philosophical mazes and emotional paradoxes of its protagonist’s condition. It seems that skipping a ‘blowout’ garage sale she was planning paid off for up-and-coming actress Taraji P. Henson in fact, she told some in an interview after netting her Benjamin Button role.

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button is not just a technical wonder, it is a classic piece of storytelling with an awesome awareness of detail. That is not to say The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the most remarkable film of Fincher’s provoking career, but it is easily one of the finest of 2008 and the story sucks you right in and infrequently lets go.