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When I installed Opera Mini on my ageing (but still very stylish) Nokia 6100, I couldn’t wait to express my joy to the world. You see, I’d been reluctantly looking around for a replacement phone for some time, mainly in order to do something which was easy a few years ago - check my email. When I first bought the 6100 (my first WAP/GPRS phone), my ISP had WAP email. Since then, as sites embraced new standards, the old Nokia’s web browser could no longer handle this task. Even Google’s release of a Java mail client offered no hope - my phone was not supported. Now with this new application installed, my phone’s been given a new chance at life. Read the rest of this entry »

As the Serbian parliamentary elections on January 21 draw close, so too does Martti Ahtisaari’s announcement of his proposal for solving Kosovo’s status problem. There is a growing feeling in Serbia that independence (or “supervised independence”) is the only option being considered in the West, adding further to feelings of mistrust and resentment. This is a dangerous situation as radicalism is already a powerful force in this country and further losses for Serbia will almost certainly stoke this fire further and impair any chance of reform and integration in the near future.

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