No more Disco lights

Moving has its advantages. Beside lovely neighbours (who left on vacation these days and now their internet line is blocked due to too much traffic and who knows when they come back to fix it:), I was lucky and got a personal assistant as regards fixing things in the flat. I only got his mobile number, so I decided to call him "Mojster Miha", which is Slovene translation for "Bob the builder". And later on I only found out that his real name is Mohammed.

After having guests over who fixed some lightning problems and helped me moving some heavy stuff to the celar of 3x3 m, which I call student room, because in Slovenia this nice celar without windows could be transformed into a student room for 2 students plus at least 2 full-time running servers.

And finally, after 4 months, "Bob the builder" came by and fixed the lightning and the leaking basin drainage. Hurray:) Hopefully he will fix other things soon.

Therefore, no more Party Disco Lights guys:) However, the memories remain. Remember
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSfYWWM0KNc?

Have a look at his crazy video as well:)
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2005/disco-elevator-p1.php
Worth trying, maybe at Andre`s place as he lives in a building with the elevator?!:)

Joost surprise

Today I received this nice e-mail from Joost support:) Now I can finally invite 3 friends to join (however most of them already joined while waiting on the waiting list). So, if you have fast internet line or neighbours you love and you would like to try Joost Beta, let me know:)

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Hello,

We hope you are enjoying your Joost experience.

Good news! We've posted 3 invitations in "your Joost" so you can invite your friends to watch your favorite program with you. To invite your friends, start up Joost, click on "my Joost" and fill in your friends' details in the "invite friends" widget box. Enjoy the ride!

If you've got any questions, feel free to check out our forum www.joost.com/support and send us your feedback on what you like andthings we could improve.

About Joost:

As you may know, we're working on a project that we think will revolutionize the way you're watching TV - bringing you the best of TV and the best of the Internet.

So, we hope you will enjoy our beta tester program and help us put the finishing touches to Joost. This is still a private, invitation-only beta and the software is being rigorously tested. We would greatly value your opinions, and we hope you'll participate actively by giving us your feedback.

Enjoy, and see you on Joost!

The Joost team

Bread dumplings

Did you ever think what to do with the rest of the bread that has been lying on your table for a couple of days? Do you just throw it away? Or do you eat all the bread that you buy? In some countries (e.g. Croatia) bread is untaxed, so it would be a sin to throw away even the crumbs.

I am lucky and I am not thrown into this kind of dilemma very often as bread is something I avoid and it is rarely seen in my apartment, apart from when the guests bring it. It happened so these days as we were eating fresh bread every day which resulted in leftovers of masses of bread from previous days which nobody ate. This is how I started making bread crumbs when I remembered that I could do bread dumplings as well, one of my favourite dishes I stuff myself with when back home:)

Here is the recipe for 21 bread dumplings:

• approximately 1 and a half kilo of two to three days old white bread,
• 4 to 5 eggs,
• 7 dcl milk,
• garlic and parsley.

Cannibals may wish to add pieces of bacon; I added fresh basilic. Veggies may wish to use soya milk instead of cow milk and egg replacements (e.g. oil) instead of eggs, although I used eggs as the guests left them behind.

Cut the bread into small pieces (approximately 0.5 x 0.5 cm) and put it into big bowl. Add milk. Mix with a large spoon. Cut the garlic and herbs into small pieces and mix them with bread. Leave 10 minutes to soak. Squeeze the bread, so that it is not too much soaked.

Make dumplings using your hands; if needed help yourself with a spoon. Put dumplings on plate lightly pre-covered with bread crumbs. Take care that the dumplings do not touch one another. Put into freezer or cook immediately for approximately 10 minutes. Once frozen, dumplings can be put into one bag/dish and be left in the freezer for later use.

Bread dumplings are good company to goulash and sauces. Mmm, I cannot wait to make myself a good seitan goulash and stuff myself with a couple of bread dumplings:)

Bon apetit!:)

Neighbours

We just have to love them, no? I love my neighbours. None of this could be possible without them. Thank you!

P.S.: Those who know the situation know what I am talking about. Do you love your neighbours?

22 April - Earth Day

22 April - Earth Day

In Slovenia a group of people every year on 22 or around 22 April organises an activity "Each one should get his bag of garbage" (see post below). The aim of the activity is to take a garbage bag and your friends and to go for a walk around the area - it can be city, forest, meadow - and to fill your bag with garbage.

It would be nice to organise something like this in Brussels as well or even all around Europe. I know, I know, we do not all throw the garbage out of car windows and on the sidewalks and in the parks when we pass by, but that does not mean we should just ignore the fact that our living environment is turning into rubbish dump.

For more info on Earth Day click here.

22 april - Dan Zemlje

Dragi Sončki!

Bliža se dan zemlje in z njim naša akcija Vsak po svojo vrečo smeti. Akcija je enostavna, vzameš vrečo za smeti, prijatelja ali kar celo družbo in se odpraviš na pohajkovanje po mestu, zelenem travniku, gozdu ali obrežju rek... vmes naberete vsak svojo vrečo smeti in jo odložite na zato predvideno mesto.

Da bo akcija bolj odmevna, dostopnejša in širše zasnovana, smo se na Pozitivkah skupaj z stranjo Svet je lep in še nekaterimi nevladnimi organizacijami odočili, da bomo skupaj v večjih mestih nabrali 10.000 vreč smeti in tako očistiti nekaj nadvse potrebnih kotičkov.

Pomagate nam lahko tako, da se nam pridružite v soboto 21.4 ob 11h dopoldan v 10 večjih slovenskih mestih (seznam najdete tu), saj le s skupnimi močmi lahko izvedemo tako obširno akcijo.

S sabo lahko prinesete risalni list ali šeleshamer, pa debelejši flomaster, saj bomo (seveda tisti ki boste želeli) med akcijo mimoidočim delili tudi letake in vrečke za smeti, ki so nam jih donirali sponzorji. Drugače pa nam lahko pomagate tudi tako, da to pošto posredujete svojim prijateljem in znancem ali ga objavite na spletnih straneh, kjer se zadržujete. V akciji vsako leto sodeluje več pridnih rok, zato verjamemo, da bodo mesta, sprehajalne poti in narava, ena, dva, tri spet čista.
Se veselimo, da se vidimo v soboto ;)

Ps. Če veste za kakšno lokacijo, ki bi jo bilo lepo očistiti, nam to lahko sporočite po emailu info@danzemlje.si in potrudili se bomo, da bo spet čista. Vse ostale informacije o akciji pa lahko dobite na www.danzemlje.si.

Objem

Uredništvo Pozitivk

"Democracy"

Do you ever feel run over? Do you ever feel second class citizen? Do you ever feel left behind? Do you ever feel like there is a conspiracy behind it all?

Don`t worry, I am not selling you anything. I just hate people behaving like they are superior beings, the so called "higher" class, "the cream of the cream" and would do just anything to push other people down, even more when they see that these people have less chances than they do.

If you are not an Esperanto speaking person and even if you are, then I guess there is little chance of you having heard of DEMEXP before (in EN, EO, FR, DE). The name is short for DEMocracy EXPeriment ("DEMokratia EKSperimento" in Esperanto).

It is a project aiming at making voting in any situation really "democratic".

"The democratic experience is a large scale project of direct democracy. It aims at providing the tools to facilitate the expression of all citizens, to transform this expression into decisions, and to apply this decision.
In the democratic experience, each participant can submit a vote subject, propose answers, and vote. All winning answers to the votes are gathered into a database that represents the common position of the group. This common position can be used to drive decisions.
Thus, the democratic experience is a complete and open tool for direct democracy. It can apply to small groups of people (associations, companies) but also to larger groups (countries, the planet!). "
(Taken from www.demexp.org)

If Demexp would have been accepted, many world`s people that call themselves "important", would not be where they are now.

Just think about it.