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Archive for May, 2007

Leigo, 5 years later

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

On April 6th we celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary. We celebrated our wedding at Leigo, a farm house in some very nice surroundings in the south of Estonia. The place is actually well known in Estonia, since every summer they organize open-air music concerts and theater performances. The musicians’ stage is on an island in […]

110.000

Monday, May 28th, 2007

That’s the number of chat messages I have received and sent in almost two years at Skype. Around 150 per day, 20 per working hour.
Chat (1-to-1 and multi-chats) are the most important communication tool at Skype. Together with the wiki, they form great pair, so simple (I like simple) yet working so well. The company […]

Elections 2007

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Like almost every French, I followed the presidential elections closely. It was an interesting election, with a lot of good debates. Finally there is a new generation coming in French politics. And I was happy with the final result too.
The fantastic participation numbers (around 85%) and the fall of the extreme-right party gave us again […]

New toy / tool

Friday, May 25th, 2007

I got a new laptop a few weeks ago, a nice ThinkPad T60, with an Intel Core Duo, 2 GB of RAM, a 120 GB hard drive and a big screen with a 1400×1050 resolution.
What I like the most about this laptop is that it’s silent. Before I had a heavy HP laptop, whose fans […]

30

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Five months without blogging, that’s like eternity in the Internet world. So what have I been up to? Having fun with Henri of course. He’s now almost 10 months old, crawling like crazy, standing up and exploring every last corner of the apartment. He’s an amazing boy and it’s great fun.
In other news, I’m getting […]