Archive of May 2008
Windows 7 demo video?
Via Arstechnica RSS:
Are you ready to see what might possibly be included in Windows 7? Get ready to be blown away—that is, if this video is really what it claims to be.
Read more about it and check out the video here.
07:09 PM | 0 CommentsNorway photos: Oslo, Kongsberg
About a month ago I was on a business visit to Kongsberg (@wikipedia): a small and enjoyable town in Norway.
It was my first visit to Norway and I must admit I kinda liked it — the country and the people. Beautiful landscape, distinctive and pleasant scandinavian architecture, high prices (which indicate high standard), and Norwegian people — which unlike us Slovenians, don’t think that they can beat fool the clock. Just take it easy, they say: slowly, step by step — and effective. Hell, we could use that attitude in Slovenia! It was weird having to pay 8 € for a beer and 15 € for a small pizza, but hey, travelling allowance for scandinavia is appropriate for their standard.
Anyway, I was able to get some late afternoon shots of Kongberg and also some late night and early morning shots of Oslo. Also, waiting for the afternoon flight to Frankfurt, we were able to visit Viking museum.
I hope you will enjoy this set. More photos are available at my Flickr gallery.
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How Serbia DID NOT choose EU path
This are some of todays world headlines:
Shock election win sets Serbia on path to EU, CNN.comTilt to West is seen in elections in Serbia, International Herald Tribune
I wish all this was true. But it isn’t — it’s bullshit. Serbia didn’t choose European path. Serbia chose anti-european path.
Let us do the math:
So, pro-EU parties will claim 116 seats (ZES: 102, LDP: 14) without minority parties (44% of popular vote) and 123 seats if they get all 7 minority representatives on their sides. This still leaves them 3 seats short to claim parliament majority (Serbian parliament counts 250 seats). Anti-EU parties on the other hand will have 127 seats (SRS: 77, DSS-NS: 30, SPS: 20) with 49% of popular vote.
So, which path did Serbia really choose?
Let’s not blind ourselves. Tadic will have BIG problems achieving parliament majority, as he will need to go in coalition with Kostunica & DSS-NS or former-Milosevic’s SPS. New coalition with Kostunica is very unlikely, but let us just not rule that possibility out yet. And on the other hand, SPS leader announced late yesterday that they will imidiately start talking with Kostunica’s DSS-NS to form a goverment together (with SRS). And even if Tadic somehow talks SPS into an coalition with his party, he will than have problems with LDP, because some of their members can’t even hear the words “Socialist Party”.
Radical Party leader yesterday already claimed that anti-EU option won. He admitted that as a party they were defeated by Tadic’s pro-EU coalition, but also added that pro-EU option all together didn’t achieve enough of popular vote to form a majority, not even with Liberal Democratic Party together. On the other hand, he already announced talks with DSS-NS and SPS to form a new majority coalition as soon as possible, in which case he expects that Boris Tadic will give him the mandate to form a new government.
It will be interesting to see, how this story will unfold in next days.
— Regards, Milan
02:51 PM | 0 CommentsSeverina goes turbo-folk (again)
This is at last 9 days old news, but nevertheless.. Severina, — one of the most popular Croatian artists in history —, released new single called “Gas, gas”. And thanks to SeveFanClub you can listen to it on YouTube:
Btw. the video is just a simple slide show put together by SeveFanClub for hosting on YouTube. It features some new pics of Seve by Viktor Drago, also available on SeveFanClub Multimedia Channel.
The single is, — after Moja Štikla, which was also Croatian contribution to Eurovision Song Contest 2006 —, her second turbo-folk style song, probably higly influenced by cooperation with Goran Bregović.
07:36 PM | 0 CommentsXobni plug-in works magic in Outlook
If you’re an Outlook user (home or business) than, —believe me—, you want to check out the Xobni Outlook plug-in in action. And starting today, this helpful piece of software is available for public download. And it gets even better — it’s free.
Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that saves you time finding email conversations, contacts and attachments. After a quick install, you’ll see the new Xobni toolbar appear in Outlook – and suddenly information will become much easier to find. When a new email arrives, the sender’s full communication history appears in the Xobni sidebar, including past conversations, attachments and contact details. Xobni also includes a blazing fast email search tool.
You can read more about it and download it at Xobni.com, or you can first check it out in action at this video:
So, get it while the stocks last. :)
- Regards, Milan