Irfanview, the brainchild Bosnian-born Irfan, is a cool computer application which lets you view photos and perform light editing on them. Before Irfanview, I’d used a few photo viewing and editing programs and didn’t stick with any particular program until Irfanview. Adobe Photoshop is too heavy with many extra features I don’t need for photo [...]
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Zoran Djindjic’s Killers Found Guilty
12 men were convicted for their involvement in the conspiracy and assassination of Serbia’s former Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. A man who: Djindjic, Serbia’s first democratically elected premier since World War II, spearheaded Milosevic’s removal from power in 2000. He later handed Milosevic over to the U.N. tribunal to answer for his role in the [...]
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Bosnia – Marija Sestic – Rijeka Bez Imena Croatia – Dragonfly feat. Dado Topic – Vjerujem U
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When I first settled in Sarajevo, I stayed in Medresa district of the Old Town, in a house owned by a family of four. One day, I decided to talk to the oldest daughter, who was 15 years old. I asked her a couple of simple questions. Her short sentence was broken up by, seemed [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Eurovision 2007 Voting Breakdown
This analysis is a fun thing I do for myself. Read it for your own risk. (:-D) I made a few changes to last year’s template. Influential factors 1. Neighbor 2. Culture (religion, political, common language, etc) 3. Ethnic minority (immigrants vote for their former countries) 4. Music taste Notes – Voters -> Votees [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Serbia’s “Prayer” Was Answered, Winning Eurovision 2007
I watched in disbelief as Serbia started racking up high points (8, 10, 12), competing neck-to-neck the first slot with Ukraine before solidifying the number one spot. It was Eurovision history all over again. In 2004, Ukrainian Rustlana’s exotic and electrifying Wild Dancer inched above talented Serbian Zeljko Joksimovic’s beautiful ballads “Lane Moje” to snatch [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Finished a Great Book
I’ve finished reading With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia AGAIN. This book was great; I even recommended it to a “fundamental” Muslim friend of mine after a very Bosnian typical political chat. I will piece together a blog entry from this chat soon. Now that I had read that book, this recent [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Czech Out #1: Balkan, Here We Go
I’m reading “The Czechs in a Nutshell,” by Terje Englund, a Norwegian journalist who based in Prague since 1993, covering Central and Eastern Europe. The book was recommended to me by a trainer at work, a former Londoner who drifted to Germany for some years and made quite a lot of money selling personal insurance. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »AAB International Travel Health Insurance (Review)
AAB International Travel Health Insurance is the newest insurance site you should check out the next time you are planning a worldwide escape. AAB travel insurance covers a wide range of circumstances from family or individual vacation to group tours, and much more. If you happen to miss a vacation because your trip is canceled [...]
Read the rest of this entry »[Update] Note about Paid Reviews on This Blog
It took me awhile to decide if I should put paid reviews on this blog which I did two or three times before. Too many reviews about irrelevant services and websites might lower the quality of this blog and turn my readers away. Due to subjects of this blog, it is difficult to find relevant [...]
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