February 2009
10 posts
Portuguese short movies in Tallinn
Every now and then there are a couple of Portuguese movies showing up in Tallinn, either during the Black Nights movie festival or in some events organized by the Portuguese Embassy in Estonia. Usually the movies are shown at the Kinomaja, a small room with rather uncomfortable seats, but quirky and adorable in its name (Kinomaja roughly translates to cinema house). This time, there are 3 short...
The Credit Crisis explained
A delightfully simple way of presenting the current credit crisis we’re in. Do visit the Jonathan’s webpage , and the video in HD on vimeo Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
How much do you depend on Gmail?
Where were you when Gmail went out? Last Tuesday’s ”Gfail” only shows how dependent we’ve become of “cloud services” like Gmail and others on our daily productivity tasks. Many companies these days use Gmail for their corporate email, and were left in the cold for more than 2 hours. Of course for most of the US this wasn’t a problem, since the outage...
Abu Ghraib - a history of violence, now reopened,...
So, the Iraqis have now reopened Abu Ghraib, the prison many call the worst prison on Earth. The NY Times has an article showing small articles from war correspondents as far back as 1978, with some pictures and interesting stories. It follows the events from before the Iraqi invasion, up to the disgrace that was the Iraqi occupation by the US military and its use of torture in that prison. In one...
Playtime - Jacques Tati, 1967 - Trailer
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Eating truffles makes you want to buy a Mac
And eating doughnuts makes you wanna buy a Windows PC? Funny and surprising research is conducted all the time. This one, a study conducted by two North-American academics, concluded that eating truffles will make you want to buy more exclusive things, such as a Mac … The basic idea is that giving in to small acts of indulgence may lead to wanting more of the same. They conducted the study...
US and France get cheesy...
President Bush is gone, but before he left office he took a few last minute measures that went a bit under the radar. One of those such measures was to award his friends, the Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd, and the former prime minister of the UK, Tony Blair with a formal ceremony where he thanks them for their support in the “war against terror”. Nothing wrong there, many...
What happens when you exceed Gmail's storage?
So here’s a scary thought… Ever since I started using Gmail, back in 2004, there has been one thing I never had to worry about. Space. Storage. That is… until today. Today, I open my Gmail and to my surprise I see a message that says I had exceeded Gmail storage and that I wouldn’t be getting any new mail until I deleted some of my stored email!!! Now I’m seriously...
Iceland joining the EU is a divisive issue
The European Parliament is not happy with Olli Rehn’s words about the possibility of Iceland joining the EU. European Union Rift Over Iceland A public war of words is developing over the possible entry of Iceland into the European Union, as EU commissionerOlli Rehn has gone against the wishes of European parliament president Hans-Gert Pottering and insisted the tiny Nordic nation will soon...
Swiss vote YES to free movement with EU
Even though there were some doubts over the outcome, in the end a majority of 59% voted in favor of unrestricted movement of workers between Switzerland and the EU, the main question on the table was the acceptance of the EU’s two newest members (and also its poorest) Romania and Bulgaria. The vote means, that EU citizens will continue to be able to work in Switzerland, and this right is...