TPJ (Tiny Post-Soviet Journalism)
Happiness elusive for tiny post-Soviets in countryside YYKHVI, August 25, 2010 -- Tiny post-Soviet people in the countryside of this post-Soviet breakaway republic are finding the blessings of liberty...
View ArticlePublic health and Põlva
A number of people have independently remarked on an odd thing about Põlva: the high number of people in the scenic town of 6,000 who look and act somewhat different. Many rural communities worldwide...
View ArticleSome eateries revisited
I ate in Tartu a couple more times over the summer. I'm not sure if I blogged about it or not. In terms of percentage of good meals, it continues to be a dismal restaurant town -- at least within a,...
View ArticleDialogues on minorities
Estonia unveiled a new series of ads on September 27 designed to get people to think twice about tolerance by asking them to imagine a member of a minority group in a personal context. Now, for the...
View ArticleCountry to transition to dot-triple-e domain
IN A bid to increase the competitiveness of the country's image, the Estonian Internet Fund has decided to take the step of adding another e to the country's top-level domain name. Still fresh off a...
View ArticleSome questions answered
Are you dead?No.Where have you been for the last six months?Sicily. Why? Kids will be in school before we know it, and I am currently set up to telework. It's a blessing, sometimes one I curse, but...
View ArticleOsama, life, and everything in it
A week has come and gone, but I suppose I'll still have to write something about Osama, since as we know OBL is the reason for everything -- the decade known as the 2000s; the War on/of Terror; this...
View ArticleTAKE TWO: Springtime for Cannes, wintertime for von Trier
Top ten other things Lars von Trier could have said at Cannes:1. Hitler was bad, bad, bad to the bone. He was the incarnation of pure monstrous evil. Nothing in this world or the next can touch him....
View ArticleFirst re-impressions of Estonia
+ 1. There really is a lot more public Wifi. Everyone's sick of the low-hanging "Estonia/incredibly wired/innovative/competitive" meme, so let me get it out of the way fast. Before I left, there were...
View ArticleINVENTORY: Between seasons on the River Slough
The last frosts should be gone, and there's some of that newfangled globalized weather coming through next week -- 27 C + during the day, maybe 15 at night. If soil temperatures are still a bit chill,...
View ArticleREVIEW: the 2011 Traffic Act
Fall afoul of traffic regulations and they might just throw the book at you, as the saying goes. In the case of Estonia's new Traffic Act, that would really hurt. The new law that came into force on...
View ArticleGetting royaled up
The presidential candidates debated today, incumbent Ilves talking into the studio air, "dark horse" challenger Tarand keeping the president company in the dark and providing him with a foil,...
View ArticleThoughts on reaching 20
I was here in Estonia 20 years ago, but not for what is now considered the main event. I spent two peaceful, very cold weeks here in July 1991, the lilac was still blooming probably thanks to Mt....
View ArticleA week in Haute-Corse
(as told in offline tweets)I was going to go trekking in Sapmi ("Lapland") again this year, but all of a sudden September was nearly a third of the way over, and with fall casting long shadows over...
View ArticleNordic-Maltic cooperation
Visiting Malta last April, I was struck by certain aspects: a compact, cute little country that entered the EU in May 2004; population: about that of Tallinn, size: Harju County; boasts a particularly...
View ArticleANONYMOUS GUEST COMMENTATOR: Eurofootball is invalid
So Estonia lost the opening match of its campaign against Ireland, 4-0. I question the Hungarian referee, I question the spectators who think a horn should be sounded continuously rather in short...
View ArticleGift ideas for Estonia's neighboring countries
In this day and age, countries do many almost-human things like apologize to each other. Maybe they should also give each other Christmas presents. Any ideas? I have one so far. For Latvia, the country...
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NOTES: Central Morocco and High Atlas 2012
Talk about a lapse in research. I just found out today that there was a major terrorist attack in Marrakech last year. I knew about the Casablanca bombings almost 10 years ago but those incidents did...
View ArticleEU INFO: A Citizen's Guide to Extradition in the New Era
It may have happened to someone you know. It will probably happen to you sooner or later. Maybe it was that download from that site. Maybe it was something you said about the US president on Facebook....
View ArticleACTA, and then some
The protests against ACTA are a just cause, and I support them. I'm always for the underdog, and the underdog these days, if it isn't a small independent bookseller or something, is almost always bound...
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