About a year ago, we decided with Ingrid that the best choice we could do for the long-term was to leave the French Riviera and go to Estonia. The challenges of this move were huge. We both had to find jobs in Estonia, we had an apartment to sell and had to move our stuff […]

This weekend is one of the two most important celebrations in Estonia, mid-summer, the other one being Christmas. Estonia doesn’t have a lot of national vacation days (compared to France at least) but for this they have two days, Thursday and Friday are off.
The longest day of the year is celebrated. Since the winter is […]

Loic Le Meur is wondering on his blog how to approach the problem of having two languages to blog in. He’s wondering what would be the best solution: Two separate blogs or mixing posts in both languages.
Why not just leave the choice to the readers? With WordPress it is easy to do. Keep only one […]

A French broadband provider, Free, is very innovative, and I wrote about their triple-play ADSL modem before.
Now they are transforming it in a Media Center! Simply reboot your Freebox and it will download an update that allows streaming files stored on your PC, using a little free program to install in the PC.
Files that can […]

Have you recently done a search on Google for a word, especially one that is often mentioned in the blogosphere (such as skype, ajax, podcast)? One of the first results is often a link on Technorati.
Tagging is hot these days. Sites like Flickr or del.icio.us showed us the power of tagging and when Technorati introduced […]

The software running this blog is WordPress. It is probably the most popular self-hosted blogging solution, and I’m myself very happy with it. Hundreds of plugins are available for it, but I’m not using many. I prefer keeping this blog simple, centered on the content. The only plugins I use are there to help the […]

Those who have visited the blog Ohlala of my wife Ingrid about restaurants and cafes in Estonia will know that we love good food. After my overview of Estonian culture, I will try to give my feeling on Estonian cuisine.
Being French, this is a sensitive subject. Most French people value a lot eating well, but […]

I recently received an email from a French who was interested in moving to Estonia and wanted to know more about it, among other things on the cultural aspect. I thought it would be interesting to share part of my answer here too.
For such a small population (1.4 millions inhabitants), I’m impressed by the richness […]

Since I wrote my first comments about the Nokia 770 (BTW MobileBurn has some more pictures), more people have been posting their impressions and unsurprisingly most of them have been negatives.
Russel Beattie for example finds a lot of defaults to the device: no cellular connectivity, no hard drive, another OS, etc. But I think he’s […]