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Archive for January, 2006

New Lego Mindstroms

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

I just read the Wired article about the new Lego Mindstorms set that should come out mid 2006 and I must say this is very exciting. Due to lack of time and money, I never got to play with the first versions of Mindstroms, but I won’t miss these new ones (Russell Beattie likes it […]

Highs and lows

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

While Skype is very close passing the 5 millions online users mark, temperatures in Estonia have reached not record low levels, but still very cold. - 24° C currently, and forecasts say it might go even lower. That’s damn cold, and cars have a tough time starting. We lost about 25° in five days. There […]

What I’m doing at Skype

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Happy New Year to everybody! After a very busy 2005, 2006 promises to be very exciting too.
For Skype, the CES in Las Vegas, which has just started, is an important event. There are several Skype devices that we are announcing with our partners there, some of them I’ve worked on.
This gives me the occasion to […]