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). [...]

According to this article, the Internet as we know it will come to an end in a couple of years because all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will agree to introduce a new billing system that will look like the system used today by most cable TV companies. The system will divide all websites into packages. Before accessing a website, users will have to subscribe to the package that particular website belongs to. The change is due to come about in 2012. In case you haven’t figured it out so far, all this is one huge pile of BS. [...]

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 with [...]

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. [...]