Siberia and Mongolia: The Two Minutes of Eclipse
September 9th, 2008
“The Two Minutes of Eclipse”, a travel blog by Nenad Morača, Mario Janković-Romano, and me, about a 23 day eclipse chasing trip to Siberian and Mongolian never lands — is finished! All texts (unfortunately, still in Serbian) and 500+ photos, both geotagged on the interactive map, and more — could be found at:
So far (during last month and a half), blog had 20.000+ overall visits, or 350+ visits per day! Thank you all for reading!
Sibir i Mongolija: Koliko vrede dva minuta?
July 15th, 2008
Nenadov, Mario i moj putopisni blog o dvadesettrodnevnoj avanturi jurenja pomračenja Sunca po nedođijama Sibira i Mongolije je završen! Sve tekstove, više od 500 geotagovanih fotografija, interaktivnu mapu sa rutama i još svašta možete naći na:
Blog “Dva Minuta Pomračenja” je do sada (za oko mesec i po dana) imao preko 20.000 poseta, tj. preko 350 poseta po danu. Hvala vam svima na interesovanju!
Let, lanci i lakoća
June 29th, 2008
Ako vas put navede u Berlin, ne tražite znamenitosti i ne gledajte u mapu. Za razliku od ostalih prestonica jasno omeđenih u vremenu i sa definisanim simbolima, prestonica koje možete zamisliti gledajući im razgledice, Berlin postoji isključivo između redova svoje istorije: u pauzama, prećutkivanjima, u neuglednim ćoškovima, u prljavim labudovima… Upravo zato, ovaj grad vas ne proziva, ne očekuje ništa, a postepeno vas osvaja cele – nalik na ružne i harizmatične ljude – svojom bezmernom lakoćom. Tri utiska:
(2) ljuljaške kod Mauer parka, dok ulični bend u mrklom mraku svira jezivo dobar Jazz a naokolo se puštaju zmajevi i skupljaju drangulije sa obližnje buvlje pijace;
(3) naši Couch Surfing domaćini, Claudia i Romina, koje su nas obe primile kao da smo stari prijatelji.
Scotland: Multimedia Computing and More
February 25th, 2008
One of the things that occupied me in the past years was programming, and I’ll put a few words about one of the projects I’ve been working on.
TALARIA System is a computer multi-agent system created for information gathering on the Web and natural language interface research. You can see TALARIA’s homepage for more information. My friend Milan Stanković and me created it about two years ago, and it was presented at the Summer School of Multimedia Semantics ‘07 in Glasgow as one of the research projects. You can also read an article of ours that was recently published in the newsletter of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group.
But besides the technical stuff, I’m full of impressions about Scotland, cold beauty queen of the World. Truly amazing she is! You can see the photo album from our trip. And if you ever get to travel there, please visit Arthur’s Seat above the Edinburgh. Watching seagulls and listening to distance echos of the city and the North sea, I danced at the top of it for an hour or so in a thrilling ecstasy of strange happiness. Later, I’ve remembered the final parts of the forth chapter of Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. That wanderlusty artistic calling, an urge to create, not belong to any order, and strive for beauty… If there is a real freedom in this reality, I’ve felt a glimpse of it there. Thank you, Scotland.