Last year, during the month of June, a very good friend of mine sent me the text of a commencement speech J. K. Rowling gave at Harvard University in June, 2008. I was in Provincetown at the time, working as hard as I possibly could to earn money for AUBG tuition, so I just glanced through the email and starred it for future reference after I realized it’s rather long. Unfortunately, I did not read that speech until now. In fact, the only reason I am going through this whole humiliation of telling this story, that illustrates just how awful a friend I am, is to share with you the contents of that speech. It certainly made me start thinking about things (and made me check out if Amnesty is offering any internships). [...]

Serbia’s folk music – even animals run away from it. For a while, he kept the animal away by buying a generator, lighting up the area, and playing thumping Serbian turbo-folk music. But when the generator ran out of power and the music fell silent, the bear was back…

What follows is an excerpt from a BBC’s report which was recently mentioned on SecurityMusings.com.

“More than 70% of people would reveal their computer password in exchange for a bar of chocolate, a survey has found.” [...]

The Washington Post published an interesting article the other day named: “When Mom or Dad Asks To Be a Facebook ‘Friend’.” The article raises several interesting questions and a privacy issue. Even though the need for privacy is a part of human nature, sometimes people want to share parts of their private lives, but only [...]

I just stumbled upon a post that was written by Mr. Mladen Tosic, a final year doctoral candidate at the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge. I was surprised by his views of the “Kosovo is Serbia” protests. [...]