Hello nabs ;)
Hi this is my first blog so maybe it will loook kinda lame because i dont have exp. but still anyway i’m trying to do my best. My real name is Matija and i come from Slovenia, i live near the coast. (We only have 43 km of sea coast) I will post some pictures of my town in the future so you can get an idea how Slovenia looks like. I used google earth to crate some funny images…
This is me trying to be Marcus Grönholm, we bought this renault 4 for 50eur, and we had fun for about 2 days after then the car was so fucked up that we had to buy another one 
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I’d like to know why everything between Slovenia and Greece is like 3rd world countries. For a long time I thought that Slovenia is also part of those developing countries but that does not seem to be the case. I realized your existence in the internet after you showed up in great numbers at Setti
Anyway, looking at map http://www.ontheissues.org/YUGO_BIG.JPG there can be seen quite good gradient from upper left corner to bottom right. At upper left there are countries which have good internet connections and can be considered as wealthy nations. Ascending towards bottom right corner there are gradually more fucked up countries.
Romania has a bit of representation in the internet. Bulgaria maybe a tiny bit. And then Croatia + Bosnia + Serbia + Montenegro + Albania = do these countries have even phone lines?!
For real, why are all these countries so much behind for example Slovenia even though you all were part of the oh-so-mighty Yugoslavia? The cases when I have seen websites or P2P users from these countries are in few. I saw couple Slovenian P2P users when I downloaded newest version of BSPlayer.
Here is another website http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/Digital+Opportunity+In+Europe.aspx which I came across while looking for that map above. It says that Finland and Slovenia use the most mobile internet connections. The same piece of news says that Albania, Belarus, Turkey and Ukraine are poor. Also Poland is poor but not so poor anymore as it used to be.
Do you see it possible that your neighboring countries can catch up with Slovenia? How can there be so big gap between ex. Yugoslavia countries? War, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War , just cannot explain it all. That brings upyet another issue, eg. Ratko Mladic case in which rest of the Europe wants to find him and those guys there are just hiding him in some cave or smth. Why?
Comment :: March 7, 2007 @ 2:16 am
“Do you see it possible that your neighboring countries can catch up with Slovenia?”
Well i dont know what to say you about catching up. But i think that Croatia can be compared with Slovenia they have an excellent opportunity to became one of most developed turistic destinations, I’m talking about their coast. If you ever been on a vacation on a Adriatic sea you would probbably understand.Only thing that is wrong in croatia is the public debt, i dont know how are they resolving this problems.Last years the relationship between Slo and Cro became very unpleasent. Because our politics (and their of course) are fighting for the border in the Gulf of Piran (i live there, you can see the gulf in the secont and the third picture i’ve posted.) because in YU these borders were very confused and practicaly they had no function. But now Schengen Agreement and EU are pushing on Slovenia to resolve this problems.
About Mladic, I must say that Serbs are one of the nations that are holding together i dont know how to describe it. But half of most of the Serbs are convinced that he is a war hero, other wants the benefits from EU and the want to catch him and send him to Haag. Where is he hidden i dont know
but the fact is that BIG War crimes were made in the YU war. Slovenia was also at war if you didnt knew, but it lasted only 10 days, and there were practicaly no victims. There was only one attack on the Slovenian airport at brnik, which represented the major damage. Yeah we had great luck that no SERB MINORITY was living Slovenia.Most of the political leaders of YU in that time were serbs so they were protecting their intersts.
“Romania has a bit of representation in the internet. Bulgaria maybe a tiny bit. And then Croatia + Bosnia + Serbia + Montenegro + Albania = do these countries have even phone lines?!”
- The thing is: Even earlyer in YU I think the economy in the Slovenia was all the time on the top of those countryes. About the internet connection i was asking the same question myself.I think that the broadband is rising even there, and so are the mobile phones providers.
Comment :: March 7, 2007 @ 10:11 pm