Awhile ago, I recieved ‘thank you’ email from a friend -pro.photographer who is traveling around the globe (among to Serbia, and to Hungary as well). Few weeks ago he asked me to translate the inscription. that was written on the old gravestone in old Slavic language. I am not hungarian or slovak, but this old gravestone is from Medieval village, written in Cyrillic and here’s the result. Very interesting!

Gisele Bundchen - brazilian supermodel

& the opening walk of Milan Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2007 for D&G.

Is high heel geeky neo-futurism back to fashion?

Important recent conference “Scientific information in the digital age: Ensuring current and future access for research and innovation” was organized by the European Commission in Brussels. You can read the joint document on “Scientific information in the digital age: access, dissemination and preservation “ , presented by J. Potočnik, Commissioner for Science and Research, and V. Reding, Commissioner for Information society and media, and adopted in February 2007. In the conference have been presented to Jan Potocnik more than 20.000 subscriptions to petition on OA: researchers, senior academics, lecturers, librarians, and citizens from across Europe and around the world have signed the petition. It has been stablished the EUA European University Association Working Group on Open Access.

I am hopefully managing = multitasking, publishing the book is on the hold while i’m hardly finding the time to modificate and change the nameservers for the domain, doing both hardware and sofware work. But, I was almost to forget that besides huge ‘to-do’ list, the FEST starts in 3 days, and the guest of honor (among other guests) of the International Film festival in Belgrade, will be director Bob Rafelson, known for Five Easy Pieces .Program of the Fest can be downloaded here.

…even if it’s just a hardware section of the old “granpa’s” notebook. One part -OSI, and the other -the white paste, I guess.

fixing, cleaning and kernel issues.

Geek issues, when you are surrounded by geeks, you become one (:

Google company started with video series of puppets show on promoting its services. The subject:Why use Gmail? Here’s why: click!

@xkcd

Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology@Kansas State University, made interesting 04.30 min video, illustration on Web 2.0 issues. Worth watching - for beginners recommended.

After many ads why You’ll love Mac and not Vista worldwide, finaly, this morning at television B92, via, two interesting guests: one Microsoft representative for Serbia, promoting Vista, and the other Ivan Jelic, Serbian Free software network activist, with genuine presentation of open source software, code and Ubuntu (the official web site of local GNU/Linux community for Serbia). Video 1 and Video 2. The right guy is always right! (:

Useful tips for maximizing your early morning hours. Just in time -  for the start of the new working week and for those who ‘don’t like Mondays’.

Rand Fishkin, CEO & Co-Founder of SEOmoz, proposed marriage to his girlfriend on TV, during a SuperBowl commercial. Video before and after, and amazing, genuine reaction of his girlfriend (the girl was in shock). This is, one of the ways, how bloggers/geeks make their sweetheart heartbeats go faster (:

This is the story how Serbs became very rich nation, especially huge organizations, Ministries of Tax Documentation, Communication Departments, big Media Houses, Executive groups and Foreign companies (without naming here in public) which employees are involved in this story. This morning I got email from a friend who lives and works in Florida (email-M$ chain swam the ocean?) who forwarded me this message that someone else frwded to him, and to the other person, and it goes so deep that the chain of this email is very long. What is this hoax about? In Serbian written:

“Normalno ne saljem obavjestenja ove vrste, ali ova vijest dolazi od
jedne jako dobre prijateljice moje prijateljice, koja je pravnica i cini se kao interesantna mogucnost.
Ako ona tvrdi da funkcionira, onda i funkcionira. U svakom slucaju, ne moze se nista izgubiti.
Ispricala mi je sljedece:

Ja sam pravnica i poznajem zakon. To je cinjenica. Nemojte se
zavaravati, AOL i Intel drze svoja obecanja iz straha da budu dovedeni pred sud i konfrontirani sa milionima, kako je Pepsi Kola nedavno ucinila sa General Electric-om.

Dragi prijatelji, ne smatrajte ovo za neku glupu salu. B.Gates
upravo brani svoje bogatstvo. Ako na to ne reagirate, moze vam kasnije biti zao.
Windows je jos uvijek najcesce koristen program. Microsoft i AOL upravo
eksperimentiraju njime pomocu e-mailom poslatim tekstom (e-mail beta
test).
Ako ovu postu posaljete prijateljima, Mikrosoft ce moci slijediti
njezin trag dva tjedna.
Svakoj osobi koja ovu obavijest posalje, Microsoft placa 245 eura. Za
svaku osobu kojoj ste ovo poslali i koja to dalje proslijedi, placa Vam 243 eura. Za trecu osobu u nizu, Microsoft Vam placa 241 euro. Nakon dva tjedna ce Vam se Microsoft obratiti s molbom o potvrdi postanske adrese da bi Vam poslao cek.

Uz srdacan pozdrav

Ja sam ovo smatrala prevarom, ali dva tjedna nakon sto sam ovu
poruku primila i poslala je dalje, zamolio me je Microsoft za moju
postansku adresu i dobila sam cek na 24 800.- eura. Vi morate odgovoriti prije nego sto se ovaj test zavrsi. Ako neko od vas ima tu mogucnost, treba je iskoristiti.
Za Billa G.-a su ovi troskovi za jednu natjecajnu kampanju. Molim,
posaljite ovu poruku na onoliko ljudi koliko je to moguce. Trebalo bi
da dobijete najmanje 10 000 eura. Ja ne bih prosljedjivala ovu poruku
dalje, ako od toga ne bih imala korist.

Kao sto sam kazala, ja poznajem zakon i tocno je da Intel i AOL upravo
pregovaraju o jednoj fuziji koja bi ih ucinila najvecim ponudjivacem
usluga na svijetu. Da bi potvrdili da je njihov program od svih
najkorisceniji, sprovode ovaj test”.
Posto sam ovim zavrsio njemacki prijevod i poslao Vam ovu poruku,
ostaje mi da vjerujem da cete je i Vi dalje proslijediti i da nije neslana sala.

Ja sam probao, probajte i Vi!
Sa Vase strane nije potrebno na tekstu nista mijenjati niti dodavati.
Jednostavno pritisnuti “Forward” i poslati sto vecem broju primaoca

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In short, in English: M$ company with BGee, is ‘defending his fortune by experimenting with beta email test system (M$ & AOL). According to this chain email, M$ pays 245 euros to each person who do frwd that email, and for each person that you’ve sent that fwrd - M$ pays you 243 euros etc as the chain grows.” The lawyer who started ‘the story’ and other people who ‘followed the instructions’: wrote testimonies as they ‘received M$ money’ after 2weeks. It was payment check of, e.g., 24 800 euros (per person). Now, you know how Serbia is very prosperous country with very high rate standard and (un)employancee. Also, interesting world ranking review of the other countries as well here.

Great para blog video story , via, that playfully explores the many ways blogs are influencing our media, our politics, and our relationships, directed by Chuck Olsen.

For those sleepers or non-sleepers, the current moon phase is almost full and this article from todays Independent is on how scientists explain moon affects to us. Which reminded me on great Echo and the Bunnymen song and video from the 80’s.

iBiblio’s - 404 FILE NOT FOUND page, and P.J.’s post on this pages’ popularity in cyberspace, made my morning! Nice to see the variety of foreign language versions of the The worlds most comprehensive “404 FILE NOT FOUND” message. Check translation for Bosnian slang, as well as Serbian (Diesel!!!) slang! (: <heart> you “That’s fixed in subversion”!

Orkut is celebrating its third birthday, which reminded me that it was in 2003 when i joined/was invited. So veterans who are @Orkut from the start and others: hope, in the future, there will be more candies, without ‘Bad, bad server (orkuts’). No donut for you.’ ; )