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Xinhua announced just a while ago that France’s lower house of Parliament has voted today to make download content from the Internet legal.

That is considered to have a big impact on many companies dealing with copyright.
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Today, the BSA published a report about the so-called software piracy.

I say “so-called”, because of the interpretation of the data by the Bulgarian branch of BSA.

Here’s how the data should be read in historical order: Read more…

Many of the geeks are using today mobile phones, which are also PDAs. All major phone companies produce such devices now, and compete for the increasing number of users. Among my favourite companies is HTC – perhaps you haven’t heard about it, but you might have seen their phones with different branding.
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Bulgarian media today publishes a lot of translations from a Bild news article.

The German tabloid apparently has blamed Bulgarian President and Prime Minister with connections to the mafia, and all other staff around Iraq.
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Sreshta.bg (means “meeting”, “dating”, in Bulgarian) is one of the sites, created and developed by my long-time friend and colleague, Mitko Ganchev. It may be worth visiting, esp. if you speak Bulgarian and want to make friends.
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I’ve read today a very huge article at the New York Times, and decided it’s worth linking it here.
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There are two new web sites, which are quite interesting:

cc.isoc.bg – Creative Commons Bulgaria (in Bulgarian only). It is dedicated to the ISOC-Bulgaria project on bringing Creative Commons to my country. Ms. Dessi Pefeva is the blog-master there, but may be I will be also co-writing. Read more…

I’ve found this in my mail archives, but decided to publish it for its relation to an article which I wrote a few days ago. The moral of this stories is that fake data must be traced down and fake data producers must be smoked from their holes.
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Goran Bregovic is the most famous Balkan composer and perhaps the only European rock-star.

His official web page is here: Goran. Lots of information is also on the Wikipedia.

I have been at several of his concerts – mainly in Sofia, but also one in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Read more…

I am wondering what notebook should I get?

There are soooooooo many options. I’m thinking about the Lenovo Thinkpads, but today they have two models, which kind of compete between each other – the Z-60t and the T-43. Each of them is better than the Asus M5000 I use now (12.1″ screen), and they come with either 14″ or 15″ screens.

Once I wrote that worse than not having a choice is to have too many choices.

Now I guess it will take me some more days before I can figure it out…