I have been complaining (and others too) about the lack of delete button in GMail. The goal of Google is to push you to archive mails, not delete them, but there are some mails I really want to delete because I don’t want them to pollute my search result.
If you are using Firefox, here is […]

When working in the industry, it’s sometimes difficult to get excited about new mobile phones. But with the new Nokia N91 there is really a phone packed with features that I would love to have.
Nokia thought at the user and put some things there in that have been long overdue: a 4GB hard drive, a […]

Niklas Zennström, CEO of Skype, recently said they are working on Skype on embedded devices.
This isn’t surprising. Many ADSL modems and routers are having processors powerful enough to run Skype. Many of them are running Linux (like Linksys) and Skype is available for Linux. The convergence there is easy to see: Modems and router […]

Using this nice Flash photo viewer, I created a little permanent page at www.oberle.org/tallinn that shows some of my favorite photos of Tallinn.
The photos are taken directly from my Flickr pages, which is nice because I don’t have to use expensive hosting storage for my photos. At $30 / year for 2 GB of upload […]

One of the first podcast show I listened too and still my favorite one was the old Engadget one made by Phillip Torrone and Lenn Pryor (here is one). Lenn was working at Microsoft as director of Platform Evangelism, and he just announced he’s moving to London to work for Skype.
He doesn’t say what […]

Some bloggers, mainly in San Francisco region, have been organizing Geek Dinners, which is what it says, geeks meeting in a cafe or a restaurant and having a good time discussing.
I would like to organize one in Tallinn, so if you are there and are interested, leave me a comment or drop an email.

In the last weeks I have been taking a lot the ferries between Tallinn and Helsinki and I have had all kind of bad surprises, so here’s a long post about everything I have learnt until now. This would be of use to anybody wishing to make this trip.
The ferry traffic between the capitals of […]

It has been now 1.5 months that I’m working in Finland and overall the adaptation hasn’t been difficult. Obviously I’m quite used now changing countries and environment often, so I don’t make a big deal of it. Sure it’s sometimes a bit more difficult to communicate as Finnish don’t speak that much, but it’s a […]

Estonia is definitively one of the best places for wireless Internet access. Wifi access is available in most of the gas stations, in public places like Tallinn port, and even better in many restaurants and cafes. Often in the last ones it is free, which just makes such a great experience: You start your laptop […]

Our house building blog is launched, check it out at house.oberle.org.
Details are on the blog. Hopefully Ingrid will post there too. Looking at how the idea of this house excites me I might well post more on the house blog than here!