http://www.balkansmedia.com Blogs network Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:31:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Martina Hingis announced her retirement today and faced the issue of having tested positive for cocaine. "I find this accusation so horrendous, so monstrous that I've decided to confront it head on by talking to the press," she said. "I am frustrated and angry. I believe that I am absolutely 100 ... http://www.balkansmedia.com/2007/11/02/martina-hingis-tests-postive-for-cocaine-retires/ In case you didn't know, Second Life is the most popular online game, in fact a copy of day-to-day activities. In Second Life, the avatars (residents) can build houses, furniture, sell cars, clothes, go to disco, eat in restaurants etc. The lawsuit I am talking about was started by six Second ... http://www.balkansmedia.com/2007/10/31/75000-second-life-lawsuit/ Today is the fifth since the fire has started in California. A number of 500,000 persons were evacuated and 1,300 homes have been destroyed. San Diego County has suffered losses in excess of $1 billion. Three of the largest fires still burned out of control there. However the firefighters have ... http://www.balkansmedia.com/2007/10/25/california-wildfires-major-disaster/ We're not yet in the phase where a shuttle launch is a common weekly or monthly thing, but from time to time we get to see how the Discovery shuttle comes back on the planet or how it takes off to go back in space. Tomorrow at 11:38 Eastern time, if ... http://www.balkansmedia.com/2007/10/23/discovery-shuttle-launch-needs-good-weather-or-will-be-delayed/ Did you know that the Bush Cabinet has some members that like to blog? It all started in August when the Health and Human Services Secretary, Mike Leavitt, said that because of the success of the pandemic flu blog, he considered writing on his own blog about day by day ... http://www.balkansmedia.com/2007/10/23/presidential-cabinet-members-leavitt-and-chertoff-became-bloggers/ Janet Dudley-Eshbach, Salisbury University's President removed inappropriate pictures from her FaceBook profile that had her comments saying that she had to "beat off Mexicans because they were constantly flirting with my daughter" just hours after she was questioned by reporters on Monday. The pictures were taken during a family vacation in ... http://www.balkansmedia.com/2007/10/19/salisbury-university-president-janet-dudley-eshbach-inappropriate-on-facebook/ Today, October 15th, is Blog Action Day and BalkansMedia is ready to support it. If you are not a blogger or you don't know what Blog Action Day is, it's all about the environment and how bloggers can give ideas to protect it. It's the bloggers that try to ... http://www.balkansmedia.com/2007/10/15/october-15th-the-blog-action-day-for-the-environment/ People on the stock market have been expecting this for more than a year to see the acquisition of BEA Systems (NASDAQ:BEA), which Cramer founder of TheStreet.com already pinpointed on Monday. He said it loud and clear "Buy BEA Systems before it gets a bid" and it looks like today ... http://www.balkansmedia.com/2007/10/13/bidding-starts-for-bea-systems-oracle-bids-67b-and-gets-rejected/