So, I got reply from PayPal service (my dear surprise last evening), when I was informed that: unfortunately, they are not yet providing services for Serbian Establishing PP in each new country or region THAT involves complex changes due to different regulations (!#$%$#oh my!#$%) . Serbia=complex! Ok! And continued (person from PayPal Global Services akka eBay Company): “We are always looking to expand our availability; however, due to the complexities of global expansion, we cannot provide specific time frame. We are working hard and look forward to expanding our services to additional countries and regions in the future.” Sour and…and here is, FYI, the list of the PP worldwide countries.

Too latte or too early for OSteoCorosis? -from C&C M$ factory. A Brave New Modular World - Another MS Patent Application - Great article: think about it!

Was it my personal critics or intuition that “Volver”, anounced at FEST, will be nominated this year. Penelope Cruz is nominated for Best Actress for Almodovar’s film, tragicomic drama (which means to return). This is first best-actress nominee in Oscar history to have garnered her honour starring an all-Spanish language film. Interesting fact is that performance already has won her a share of the best-actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival last May and a best-actress nomination from the European Film Awards. Other nominations.

Dr. Charles Roselli says a British newspaper misrepresented his research into gay rams, but that didn’t stop the blogosphere, PETA and gay rights activists from running wild with the story.

This one comes next from Apple, again: the eye candy ~~~~~~~> for geeks (who love apples), i guess (:

PayPal doesn’t work for Serbia, or Serbia and Montenegro, or Yugoslavia , or former Yugoslavia. How simple and european it is and how difficult and non-fair is! How the one shall select the country without “country/region” accessibility in Web world? Maybe moving to Bahrain is the answer?

Podcasting workshop @ Cultural Center - Rex, Jevrejska 16 - Belgrade. Time: Monday, 29 January 2007, workshop (4-7 pm) by Tim Pritlove, vloger, podcast journalis (Chaos Computer Club, Berlin) and Bicyclemark (Amsterdam)& presentation (8 pm) by Tim Pritlove (on activism, hacking, community and organisation of Chaos Computer Club, Berlin).

LG Electronics has unveiled the fruits of a mobile phone design partnership with Italian fashion goods maker Prada, reports Macworld UK. According to a press release on Monday, the first Prada telephone by LG will combine high-end technology with avant-garde design offering the best in both style and performance. The Prada Phone comes in glossy black and is a mere 12mm thick and looks a lot like Apple’s recently announced iPhone. LG has no plans to sell this in the U.S. It’s set to bow in Europe (UK, France, Germany and Italy) in February for 600 euros ($780) before moving on to Asia. The Devil is Calling;-)

Bora Zivkovic, science blogger, one of the organizators of NC Science Blogging conference, the creator of the Science blogging Anthology. Some of the Audio and Video from the Conference - here. Congradulations Bora!

Art, culture, Art, LiFe. Why 22nd January? Because those events and births, and one of my favorite directors were born today. Also, birth day of Mira Trailovic, name to remember: Serbian dramaturg, theatre founder “Atelje 212″ and BITEF ( Belgrade International Theatre Festival) as well as Bitef Theatre, where tomorrow (who is in Belgrade) can enjoy the premiere of stand-up comedy show - “Kafanske price”. Review very, very soon, with photos. Also, not to forget, this girl was born on today’s day (& promises to be better:), 4 -days ahead ->today-> 3days after -> thanks to all of you who are sending nice and funny text messages, phone calls, emails, e-cards, visits. : ) Thanks to my mother (she knows why), and father who always calls me on Jan.16th to say HB to me:)

Today, finally the news: Svetislav Basara won the NIN Prize for the best novel published in Serbia in 2006 for the novel ‘Uspon i pad Parkinsonove bolesti’ (The Rise and the Fall of the Parkinson Desease). About the novel here.

The pre-election silence before the Parliamentary elections in Serbia, scheduled for 21 January, starts at Thursday midnight. And that’s about it. Second time around cute black labrador, my neighbors male dog, popped up on me today. Baby big dog. And as I had great no queue (at ALL!) issue at the post-office - happily continued my way and saw this great design poster (someone made in Serbia), didn’t notice the discounts - i am not that maniac, thank you. Epiphany at the midnight! In Serbian- bogojavljenje. Just like that. Finally, silencio. What’s your wish?

A primer that I live on Mars: almost to forget, between all the thousands of multitasking (read: work=fun) I am surrounded, five days ago, for the very first time, has started promotion campaign on CNN under the slogan, “Moments to Remember”- two videos (each 40 seconds) showing Serbia’s tourist offer, tradition, mentality and hospitality. Indeed, one step towards EU, moments to remember ‘remember’ for a very good reasons or some/thing else?    Video One and Video Two.

And as I put the beta version for the Sci-Info blog of Dept.of Scientific Information (soon to know the links), and Blog Together - Science Blogging Conference is getting closer, here are some blogging project statistics of Serbian blogsphere -Moj blog - the web site for bloggers: both world wide famous blogs (53) and Serbian blogs (40) -  journalists, information specialists, NGO activists from different professional area. Data from GNU Linux center, Serbia, reports  (since October when the project started until now) number of  99 144 visitis. Congratulations!

While some of us got muscels pain from dancing etc., the others were promoting themselves before the Elections (Jan.21). This is how the Serbs celebrated Serbian New Year, 2 nights ago- January 14th, 2007 , in front of the National government. And who mentioned that there is no ideology connection between  media, politics, (culture), music and the masses?

Great start of the year for the filmophiles and great film programe of this years’ FEST - 35th Belgrade International Film Festival , under the slogan : “Da li si kadar za Fest?” . Events will take place at Sava center, Cultural center- Belgrade, “Dom Sindikata” and Yugoslav Film Archives (Muzej jugosloveneske kinoteke). Time: from 23rd February - 4th March 2007. Program is selected into 7 parts with variety of great films: Europe out of Europe, Facts and puzzles, Fantasy, German movie, Horizons, Lighthouse, Miss. There is interesting list of guests that will come to Belgrade and Festival (from Europe, USA, Japan) but officially will be published later in press and on web site. One of my recommendations, recently watched - positive surprise (after bad ‘Bad education’) by P.Almodovar - film Volver with excellent P.Cruz.

At some geo-points the first sign of spring appeared (too early?), and on the other new year brought -> new resolutions: fitness at work! This is how Singapore National Lib. management motivates their workers: ‘Always thought that regular exercise wasn’t possible due to your busy schedule? PerfecT.