General Sport.
New Zealand thrash England 36-3 in the union, Lions ride roughshod over Essendon 162-96 in the AFL. It’s a little disappointing not having Fox Sports to watch Euro2004, but I’m starting to think it’s really a very good thing… opening match kicks off in three hours at 2am.

Rugby Union.
All Blacks v England coming on the box soon. I’m not sure who I would rather lose more.
England beat us in the World Cup Final. Ergo, they deserve to be humiliated.
The All Blacks, on the other hand, are New Zealand’s national team. For this, they too deserve to be humiliated.
Who, oh who, will win my affection?

I’m leaning towards NZ, but I don’t want England bouncing back on a bender against Australia next week…or whenever they play. Who knows? It’s not like the Australian Rugby Union has heard of a marketing department.
Did anyone else know Australia is playing Scotland at 3.30pm tomorrow? No? Me either.

Yahoo! News – Serb Boy Killed in Apparent New Bid to Rock Kosovo

This was a week ago now, but I was reminded while posting these other Serb-related events. It’s a very similar situation to what happened earlier in March when a Serb teenager was shot. Everything went quickly downhill then, with almost 20 deaths and Serb houses and Orthodox churches torched before the situation calmed. Thankfully arrests of the suspected gunmen were made quickly this time, and we haven’t heard that Kosovo has “exploded in violence” again.

I just discovered while searching and posting the last two entries, this book I borrowed from the library, UNDER ORDERS: War Crimes in Kosovo, is actually a report by Human Rights Watch (obviously I hadn’t opened it yet…). If you follow the link, you can read the whole thing online. Not likely, I know, but the Executive Summary may be worth the time of some.

Does Serb weekly BLIC have the inside scoop on David Hicks?! An Australian accused for terrorism in USA: Via Kosovo to Al Kaeda. Apparently David Hicks took the name Muhammed al Australia, stole testosterone from the butchers he worked at, and ‘friends’ say that he ‘was a monster’! Seems unlikely to me too.

The stories at that link might change tomorrow, so I’ll post the whole thing in comments in case.

BBC NEWS – Bosnian Serbs admit to Srebrenica

For the benefit of those who refuse to believe atrocities were committed by Serb forces in Bosnia and elsewhere, hopefully this gets wider media recognition in Serbia proper. It’s an official investigation which, the story says, “is the furthest any Bosnian Serb authorities have gone in admitting their involvement in events around Srebrenica”.

Nothing reported on B92. BETA has something, but only available as a headline. Nothing on Blic, but check out the next post. Tanjug has a few lines about it.

Of all the other sites, something may be there, but my Serbian isn’t exactly up to translator status quite yet.

I’ve finally discovered RSS and XML feeds (Atom in Blogger) and the ‘newsreader’ programs that go with them.

I haven’t decided yet if going through the newsreader is really any better than visiting the sites directly.

But I do have a leaning, and it’s towards ‘no’.