A Slovak branch of Strabag, a construction company, has sued the website www.znasichdani.sk (translates as From our taxes, run by Fair-play Alliance, won 1st Prize App prestigious prize of Open Data Challenge) that connects information available in the Slovak Trade registry with the awarded public sector contracts. A slovak district court issued a preliminary ban [...]
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June 27, 2011 at 15:51 :: Filed under Politics, Rants :: [*] :: 1 Comment ::
There has been an interesting misconception going on in the Slovak blogosphere since its opening to the wider audience and general public by the Slovak daily SME in 2005. The misconception arises from the understanding and use of the two terms: a blog and a blog post. A blog is [a] website that allows users [...]
August 12, 2010 at 09:34 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: No Comments ::
Recent Slovak law against dual citizenship has introduced fines and a loss of Slovak citizenship in case you voluntarily throw yourself to the wolves (state bureaucrats) telling them about your other citizenship. So, I had this idea: what if you pretended to gain a foreign citizenship and would allow Slovak bureaucrats to void your Slovak [...]
July 16, 2010 at 01:00 :: Filed under Musings :: [*] :: 7 Comments ::
Deutsche Telekom signed the United Nations Global Compact as a founding member and as one of the first ICT companies. We acknowledged [...] and made a commitment to respect human rights, maintain appropriate working standards and take an active role in environmental protection and fighting corruption. From Deutsche Telekom: Showing Initiative (Voluntary Commitments) Imagine you [...]
July 7, 2010 at 02:39 :: Filed under Politics, Rants :: [*] :: 3 Comments ::
Yesterday, I was browsing YouTube and found some good Slovak old-school hip-hop tracks from the 1990′s. Nathan Lively inspired me to create a list of old-school Slovak hip-hop tracks. These rap tracks were released either under Zvuky ulice (Sounds of street) compilation or as the separate CDs by each band (Trosky, for example). The tracks [...]
May 10, 2010 at 14:23 :: Filed under Musings :: [*] :: 2 Comments ::
Figaro, a Slovak chocolate and sweets company owned by Kraft Foods, launched their retro style chocolate packaging featuring folk dolls well-known to the older generation. The company has also started a competition on their website (due to the entirely Flash website, it is impossible to link to the competition directly). Dolls are named Jana, Dana [...]
February 17, 2010 at 19:28 :: Filed under Internet :: [*] :: 1 Comment ::
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Brief Review Of Pohoda 2010 Festival
I’ve been a regular visitor to Pohoda Festival near Trencin, Slovakia since its first year at the military airport near Trencin in 2004. It was a quite small festival at that time and Michal Kascak, the founder of Pohoda Festival and his team were testing the new place. I remember problems with too much sun [...]
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July 12, 2010 at 23:21 :: Filed under Musings :: [*] :: 11 Comments ::