Nick Bassiliades - Personal Home Page

Nick Bassiliades - Personal Home Page

This page contains some personal information about me.

Personal Status

I was born on 9th May 1969 (Taurus) in Thessaloniki, Greece.
I'm married with Evdokia Vassiou
My little daughters Anna and Dimitra.

Favourite Team in all sports

IRAKLIS

Favourite Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Bands and Artists

	Megadeth	Rainbow	Dio
	Metallica	Thin Lizzy	Gary Moore
	Iron Maiden	Queensryche	Yngwie Malmsteen
	Accept	Manowar	Jeff Healey
	Black Sabbath		Joe Satriani

Favourite Classic Composers

	Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphonies: 3rd (Eroica), 5th, 6th (Pastorale), 9th (Ode to Joy) Piano Sonatas: 14 (Under the Moonlight), 15 (Pastorale), 8 (Pathetique) Fidelio
	Peter Tschaikowsky	6th Symphony - Pathetique Ballet Suites: The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, The Swan Lake
	Wolfgang Mozart	40th Symphony Requiem
	Gustav Holst	The Planets
	Joaquín Rodrigo	Concierto de Aranjuez
	Antonín Dvorák	Slavonic Dances
	Franz Schubert	The Unfinished
	Jean Sibelius	Finlandia
	Bedrich Smetana	The Moldau
	Johann Strauss II	The Blue Danube Various Strauss family works...
	Antonio Vivaldi	The Four Seasons
	Richard Wagner	Der Ring des Nibelungen (Die Walküre)
	Carl Orff	Carmina Burana

Hobbies

Various collections (stamps, coins, books, ...)
Programming

	Prolog	Pascal	Quick Basic
	Lisp	C	DBase - Clipper

Reading

Science Fiction (or may be reality?!)

Arthur Clarke (I've read 16 novels)
Isaac Asimov (I've read 17 novels and 4 story collections)
Philip Dick (I've read 18 novels and 2 story collections)
Michael Crichton (I've read 8 novels)
Jules Verne (I've read over 25 novels and short stories ... when I was younger!)

Greek Literature

Nikos Kazantzakis (I've read 7 novels)

Scientific Literature
History & Philosophy (some years ago!)

Astronomy & Cosmology (due to my wife's job at a Planetarium)

Watching TV (Unfortunately none of these is on-air any more in Greece)

X-Files (cool!)
Startrek (Long live TNG!)
Babylon-5
Sea Quest

Cinema (around 25 movies average every season!! - well at least used to...)
Taking photos (not a fanatic though!)
Travelling in Greece

Skiathos ('90)
Paros ('91)
Big island ('92) (Great Britain) (and Thassos as well...)
Santorini ('93)
Peloponisos (Nafplio, Monemvasia,...), Zante ('94)
Corfu, Paxoi ('95)
Syros, Mykonos ('96)
Lefkada ('97)
.... Greek Army ... ('98, '99)
Lefkada ... again ... ('00)

Photos from WWW2003 conference (Budapest, Hungary)

Department of Informatics

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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