bug :)

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spring and fall often look like this in Estonia :)

Think Geek!

Chirstmas are coming, though more likely not as prodigal as recent years, but if you need a different items to purchase for your friends and family, check out http://www.thinkgeek.com

:)

What do you think about the sites that try to play music for you without warning you? I use alt+F4 for them :)

artist recommendation

here - http://markoki.pri.ee/ - a time web with interesting photos (in estonian)

swing swing

Hiiumaa 2004 -- as you can see we still live on a time where size does matter in internet. means even low quality 320x240 videos are heavily compressed not to make internet slow. sorry for the bad quality and sound, i'm a total rookie in videos (i just know you have to hold the camera as steady as possible and not to zoom in and out too often).

how rat snapped the sunflower seeds

march 2004 - rats like sunflower seeds.

This is also first MOV video in my blog, they're heavier + harder to upload than MPEG-s. I guess the google video processor is doing some extra work to convert the native macintosh algorithm to its standards. fifteen minutes at least with 3mbyte MOV - hmmm... ok canceled. Second round - trying. wow, five minutes and it's done! anyway consider some patience with MOV files.

anyway, is blogger afraid to be the runner up of the youtube? meanwhile these two sites are compareable in terms of success, not yet really comperable in terms of specifis areas, where blogger wins with blogs and youtube with movies. maybe blogger wants to start eating youtubes market? :P

lottery

this is how lottery ticket used to look like in good old soviet times. direct translation: "lottery of money and things."

x

smile, you are being photographed :)

ix

vampires are around

VIII

smile hon yar bein photograbb'd

when shit hits the fan

pic is made using traditional firm camera - Pentax MZ50, Tamron 70-300mm telephoto zoom (what a lovely lens for its price), fuji superia 200 film. If you have a choice where to make prints of your photos, choose fuji laboratory if you need stunning colors. kodak and agfa has nothing to face it)

one of the most dangerous things when you trim the grass in the city area, is that you hit the dog shit. if you have a good powerful trimmer, be sure to have water nearby, because your face is full of it after hitting it :P

by the way the trimmer that you can see in the picture is OleoMac "maccaroni" 740T - very durable and powerful. It's called maccaroni because it is made in Italy, but it's supplied with Emak's (also italian industry) 2-stroke engine which lasts almost forever.

Keywords

popular keywords from last week :P

myspace google yahoo music lyrics ebay play game myspace.com proxy https mapquest yahoo.com baby boy names youtube youporn craigslist nfl schedule dictionary newspaper obituaries free english course game cheats for ps funny pics facebook you tube girls local newspaper wwe suspensions stupid humans hotmail free radio stations soulja boy hotmail.com meaning of names yahoo mail about wikipedia job nigeria google.com sperm shack movies privacy naruto madden cheats jenna jameson contact home depot lil wayne hot aol.com msn jessica alba games cheat www.myspace.com airline tickets www walmart steve fossett cars rihanna bikini jobs in nigeria ipod touch anime bush britney spears paris hilton brad pitt angelina jolie business war iraq sex madonna jackson affair gay lies conspiracy oil drugs

sorry - no content this time :P

VII

Sopranos? :P

vi

hand shaking so much than panny's lovely OIS didn't help out - june '04

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smile b4st4rd! :P your beautiful face is bein' photographed :P

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s ! y a b p !

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It seems there'll be a little portrait photo marathon, this one's taken May 2004, Tallinn, near Soolaladu :P if this is you, please send me mail, i don't know who you are? :P (pics from 04 are made with my lovely Panny FZ10. )

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Smile :) - y a b p ! :P

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Smile :) you're being photographed! :P

2 advanced

If you have nothing to do, see this site: http://www.2advanced.com

It has been more or less a standard of where design can go and what can it be in terms of both rich media and traditional graphics design, for many years.

It also shows how powerful is one of the programs used to create this site, ADOBE FLASH (it used to be macromedia's product, but adobe has bought macromedia some years ago).

One of the talents behind this site - Eric Jordan.

today & years ago

First of all, bad news for rally fans - Colin McRae and his son died yesterday in helicoper accident. This is very sad news for me, as I used to be a huge fan on rally when Markko Martin was driving.. but Michael Park died in 2005 in rally accident, and now McRae, one of the most legendary all time rally stars. The present and the future of both WRC and F1 are about to be pretty caleidoscoping, starting with sensational information leak scandals in F1, to that Marcus Grönholm is about to get retired from WRC.

In addition the recent history of WRC has been pretty dark, because speculatively bosses from F1 would like the masses to be interested more of F1 than in WRC (which is naturally more eye pleasing and interesting to watch than F1 - no offence). So due to the pressure to WRC recent years the event has not been so eye catching to watch, because of little participing car companies, also no heavy competition on the top (Loeb, Grönholm and Solberg only).

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For sports fan, today there was a hectic discus throw competition in Sweden, Helsingbord. Top tough guys were attempting to break the world record, reigning world champion Gerd Kanter included. The results were quite interesting, with Kanter having five failures out of six resulting with a bit more than 68 meters. Estonian second participant Märt Israel throw a stunning new personal best with more than 66 meters! And finally, the most surprising event of this evening was the winning result 69.90 by Franz Kruger (former South African athlete now being in the association of Finland).

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cone from winter 2004.

.. and the cold north sunset from the same day (march 2004).

programmer needed

I'm currently looking for a good programmer to work together with. I'm doing design work by myself, so if you think we could work together, feel free to contact me via mail bright AT dlancer DOT net or via MSN msn AT dlancer DOT net :-)

volunteering

Today I discovered a nice surprise in my mailbox - a real post card asking people to deal with volunteering. As no exception today, the URL was supplied, so if you are located in Estonia and think everything must not be done because of money, check out the link to get more info - HERE

Mind Valley

If you have many ideas, you are talented, and you feel your current efforts are not appreciated enough, why not to apply for a job in Mind Valley?

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Terra Mitica entertainment park in Benidorm, Spain.

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Benidorm, May 2007

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Sunset in Denia, May 2007

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Benalmadena, Spain - November 2006

video test..

... It seems blogger resizes the videos hmm - also the quality.. it's the price of to keep internet fast :P

Remo Savisaar's photography

here - http://blog.moment.ee/ Remo Savisaar's photo blog.
Tons of awards so it's a crime not to click it.

II

another shot from Cueva del Tesoro. Nine months after this trip, still some stunning shots undiscovered. As with the caves in the world, there are some areas in New Guinea that scientists and geologists are just about to discover. If you browse National Geographic magazines, there's a lot of reading about it :-)

Rincon de la Victoria

Cueva del Tesoro, Rincon de la Victoria (Southern Spain, near Nerja & Almeria), November 2006

Decathlon

Roman Sebrle (a olympic winner, world champion, european champion, world indoor and european champion, world record holder with 9026 points in decathlon) won the long desired world champion title today. 8676p - a result that can bring gold medal only in low season in decathlon. Erki Nool scored 8815p in Edmonton 2001, being 2nd after (3 times) world champion Thomas Dvorak.

Lot's of drama this time (as usual in decathlon, and I believe it is also one of the reason that attracts public - the drama of ten events), for example Sebrle's falldown in pole vault (4.8 only), Maruice Smith's (whoops wikipedia, where is your article about this decathlete? Search string "Maurice Smith" only leads to a kickboxer born in 1961) unbelievable series in first 8 events, and finally, Sebrle's new personal mark in javelin and the final 1500m. Sebrle was even able to throw new personal best result in Javelin, resulting 71.18. (for compare, an ex world champion Andrus Varnik could throw only over 75m this year - that shows how high are decathletes in some areas. A good example is also Erki Nool's result in long jump - 8.22 - a result thad could have been bring medal from many championships).

Decathlon is being called range of light athletic kings only, and Estonia is proud to have Olympic Champion here also, mr Erki Nool, a gold medalist in Sydney, 2000. Nool also holds the Estonian record 8815p. Today, many good performers were injured resulting non participation in Osaka today and yesterday, including Mikk Pahapill (potential ~8300p), Indrek Turi (~8200) and Kristjan Rahnu (~8600p. Rahnu made 8526 points in Arles in 2005).

Next year the Olympic games are being carried in Beijing in China, so make sure you have two free days to watch decathlon next year :-)

As with medals this year, and as told before, Gerd Kanter won a gold medal in discus throw in Osaka this year :-)

long jump

It has been interesting that there have been no such kind of duels in long jump competition, like it was sixteen years ago in Tokyo, where Carl Lewis and Mike Powell were about to jump near the 8.9m line. Today it would mean a definite gold medal, while these years 8.4m is often enough to win the brightest medal. By the way Powell and Lewis are watching long jump final competition in Osaka right now as I write these lines.

I highly recomment to see the biography of Carl Lewis, one of the most legendary and capable light athlete in worlds history. 9 gold (!) medals from 4 olympic games and 8 gold (!) medals from world light athletics championships is just a start ;)

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Marbella, Puerto Banus (one of two main boat ports in Marbella - there are Estonian boats, too :P )

:)

just a photo post, made in Portugal November 2006, after returning from the most west point of Europe, Cabo de St Vicente. Heading to Spain now :-) Camera was my lovely Pentax *ist DS, lens used was Sigma 15-30mm EX.

D3, 1D MkIII and 1Ds MkIII - near perfect

Nikon has reveled a cover from the new flagship model D3 as an ultimate answer to Canon's 1Ds mkIII and/or 1D mkIII. A dream camera which you can afford for around $5000. No matter if Canon or Nikon, both ones are capable of making almost ten frames per second @ full resolution, making possible to handle 100 megabytes of data at the same time. I think it is not far of to have 25fps, which theoretically allows to make a movie with a digital SLR camera. (If you google around, you should by the way fing a movie made with a Nikon D70 - of course it is not a performance camera, but shows clearly, that it's not impossible to make a movie using current DLSRs).

august weather

If you'd like to see a contradictious weather in Estonia, August is probably the best time for it. I was not lucky to capture it all as I had only a snaphot camera with me, but there was lightning, heavy rain, direct sunlight, double full rainbow and two waterspouts all visible at the same time - stunning I have to say, have not seen a similar situation in my life before.

good news in sports

Gerd Kanter is now a world champion in mens discus throw. Today he won a long desired gold medal in light athletics world championships in Osaka, while Virgilijus Alekna, an unbeatable discus thrower for many years, was just only 4th. The winning result 68.94 was not what it was expected to be to win the title, but the more interesting will be the contest in Beijing next year, when the Summer Olympic Games 2008 take place.

jump!

jumpp! one of my favourite activities - to shoot someone jumping :) so much energy, so funny results, so fun to perform, so happy faces later :)




JUMMPPP when you can! ..



.. and duck to get some pictures, too :)

and ask your friends to jump, too :) the more the better. and let me take a picture of it :))

song festival

over perhaps fifteen years visited the estonian song festival again. this time as a visitor, not a participant. such a great feeling to hear all those voices! gorgeous.

so digitalized world. one of my fetich also to shoot someone shooting. millions of pictures of this events, probably also thousands of videos.

if you ever decide to start getting digital in photography, buy canon. because canon own the others in terms of image processing. also world press use canons, so if you visit osaka championships this year, 90% of what you see in a heavy press photographers area, is made by canon. then comes the nikon. then pentax, olympus, umm sony?.. minolta. who else makes DSLRS?

by the way leica has their digital M now. pretty decent piece of camera, one of the most original to be found today / "these days". check dpreview.com for the review. pana makes DSLRs too, they's more or less identican to cheaper leicas. Glass wears leica brand also, i guess it's worth it. also if you don't mind to spend more, get a medium format digital back. giver you resolution advantage and you can start your own ad agency. as with the prices in med format digital backs, it's about to decide whether to buy new car or this :P -- i feel so good now, for such a long time I've been wantin' to talk about digital cameras :)

zoo station

Not a bad idea to visit Tallinn's zoo these days. OMFG I start to overuse "these days" and making a tourism propaganda, not to mention talking too much after being idle too long. Mati Kaal has made a award-worth job though, so the red fish in of the aquariums in the zoo looks like that.




It's the iguana. who designed the animals of the world? :P from a newspaper i read some days ago that an animal called geko has 500,000 hairs in each of his leg, thousand of even smaller hair in each of the hair. who does the math.

mexican story

if you're not estonian reading this blog, remember to visit Ristna Lighthouse when visiting Hiiumaa island. This time it was exciting experience with wind being so strong that the tip of the lighthouse was like a huge bass speaker. Not like your top of the line home cinema subwoofer, but x times more powerful. Peels the paint of your wass as they say. The ticket is 20EEK (€1.3).

not sure if the wind is visible :) it's a real miracle story actually how we met. i was looking for the holy internet to find someone to teach me spanish, so i found a message board with the messages from the ppl desiring to learn languages. so we started to have conversations time by time (it's a busy life these days). guess what, one fine day i received mail if i'd be happy to meet? for sure :) so she took a trip to estonia being in a work camp here partially, but also just chilling around as well as you can see :)

so now i know someone from mexico. didn't sound too far away till i opened the world map! guess what from estonia, mexico is almost as far as north australia!the powwa of internet, what can i say. by the way I didn't know a word about carlos slim to date, meanwhile shortly after marcela left our countly, he passed bill gates, a long term leader in terms of treasure. well, money - what would you do if you had 59,000,000,000 bucks in your bank account? :P stupic question, of course.

first

.. the car in the picture is our old vw - sorry for mentioning, men are crazy about cars. it's from '99, server us 27,000km with no bigger problems, so i can recommend it. starts with -30C nicely (gasoline, not diesel). tons of room to accomodate all baggage. engine is perhaps a bit weak but therefore also not too thirsty. comfortable to drive also.

being first is so enjoyable. missing the ferry and being the first to wait two hours is not so. check the times before going to hiiumaa. who's there in the picture? we had a very special gues this summer from mexico :) (hi marcela how's it going?) ton's of pics from the trip. lot's of fun. a permanent legacy with three words for our daughter (boca, ojo, naris :). some pics here also. doesnt happen every day we have so special guest :)

wild strawberry. so much this year in hiiumaa, that walk the ancient forests and smell them. collecting 10kg with one night no problem. the picture may look a bit dull in terms of colors, its the adobe rgb trick, i fooled myself with it thinking to get even better colors but failed. so choose sRGB in your camera next time if you are a mediocre mainsteam like me (i mean, if you want to see too much colors). so nice weather this year in hiiumaa, i guess we're lucky with it, no bad ones last year also. such a small island, so much to see :)

sky + clouds

it's estonian sky. clouds like painting from a wall. such a drama. you can see it if you pick up right moment and take a trip to hiiumaa. be prepared though if you are late with your journey, it's not mallorca with all the restaurants open 27/365.

may i recommend you some music again, it's alan parson's project "i wouldn't wanna be like you" playing in my headphones right now. cool chillin. my headphones are philips hp890 by the way, it's a level where music start. 50 neadynium elements gosh. be sure you have nice amp for those cuties. of course it an amateur product, but when you're on a budget it makes the trick.

the trip to hiiumaa was nice this time. probably some pictures to follow. for example, this:

a bus stop just next to the sea. waiting for the bus to come :)

happyness

may i share more pictures with you? there may be a mistake in a headline actually, i don't remember whether to write it with i or y. also, do you know the tv-show 'happyness', nice english humour, find it out from imdb.com. congrats for the young ppl (oh i'm younger than young), nice to see weddings are still popular these days. also the 070707 was the day to fight for, this year, magic of numbers.

by the way, simple minds released their album "B&W 050505" in what date? yes, correct. hmm makes me think about music, for many years i've been thinking about i'd like to say some words about music, well start with pickin' up something from simple minds - probably the most powerful music on earth. i'm a huge fan of them, really.

blue eyes

now who's that? not quite sure. a snapshot (seems a bit underexposed hmmm) from the garden party with tons of children running/ducking around. enjoyable moments, really beautiful. just surfing the photos of this summer. about eight thousand from april.

events

I was more or less wrong about the summer. Have had some nice events. Time by time being photographing here + there. Just enjoy it a lot. Do you need to photograph somethin'? Let me take care of it in my amateur way. So, my lovely syster asked if I'd make a little shoot for girls night - for sure. Such a beautiful girls. Let me forward you a dialogue as well. My sister: "hi, it's my brother, he'll take some shots"; someone else: "though he's a stripper..?" ROFLMAO.

m0nst4

m0nst4 is a 1337 form of monster. Decided to call this cute bug in a way like that this time. Nice antennae, huh? :-) Perfect to scare people :P He can fly too. We discovered him while workin' in a garden. 1 luv bugs.

Talented Photographer

It's summer. I have no things/events to write about. 25C in Estonia these days - go out and take a sunbath.

If it will be raining + u g0t ain't sh1t 2 d0, visit this: http://www.laurabkass.blogspot.com/ - mysterious energy there :)

Lithium Picnic

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- It's a gate of Denia Castle, photogpaphed in June 2007 -

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First, I could not refuse to share this link with you: LithiumPicnic in DA - very classy art again :-) Pay attention to the current ID also, the nice yadda-yadda of photographic terms written in the blackboard, not to mention how deep is the expression in his face. Really enjoyable. Where do all these ideas come from? Admirable. I also like the name "lithium picnic", it's something different.. .. .. ..

I still have not found a good photo to post with this message, so I guess next time. It is actually quite hard to choose, I'm sure if I had a chance to see someone's raw material, it would be much easier to pick up good works. For example, working two weeks on someone's 3 years of digital pics, maybe a 30,000 or more, and then selecting 100 best works out from there, without previously knowing, which works are selected by author first as the best ones. That would be the way we could learn to value our arts seen through someone's else eyes. Preferably someone working/actiong at the same area though-- or what do you think?

.. so..

.. If you are THIS person, let's exchange, I'll give you all my (probably 20,000+) photos of recent 3 years, and you'll give me yours. Maybe even to publish an exhibition of the works we got? And maybe even involve more people to first make the project more fun, second to have more quality exhibition later.

I lied for you about the photo, I finally found one that I like :) traditionally placed as a first item in the post :P

if you have a minute..

.. to spend five minutes with browsing beautiful art... then...
here! -> link <- some quality photography by Gwendolyn Kraehenfuss :-)

and another..

x million times more famous artist :)

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/54202918/

it's just a link to the certain work, but I'll guarantee you'll be amazed, as Noistar is one of the leading artists in the world in this area :)

artist recommendation

I'd like to share this beautiful art with you:

http://sylwiaa.deviantart.com/

I sometimes find myself surfing in earth-bid DeviantArt :) though the more time goes on, the less time we seem to have :P

countdown

Nice green leafs, aren't they? I picture them every year, they symbolize the start of a bit better weathers rare here in a northern area.

I have internet explorer now, not opera anymore, I like how microsoft has worked out better text on-screen rendering (with colors creating smooth corners of letters), so viva microsoft till the next innovation in that area. I also do not have to size down the font anymore, because IE shows the default size pretty good.

Yesterday, my wife screamed "Mouse, mouse!" at the evening. Guess what, within four years living in our considerably. today morning, we got this little bastard, and we got a nice photo of it, but i can't put it here in blog, because the mouse is already dead, and i love animals so much. including mice, until they're out there eating something more natural than a cheese from my fridge. So we are all sooooooooo shocked about the even (can't sleep at nights - mouses in the houses in a times of iPods and LCD monitors?)

as with animals and birds, did I already say that I love them a lot? One of my favourite birds, blackbird was lately eatenn by one of my favourite animals, cat. The unexperienced stupid blackbird made a nest to a unprecedentedly comfortable place under in woodshed. Blackbird's nest is pretty impressive, maybe only a bit more worse than the swallow's. Today the lovely blackbird is in heaven already, along with her five beautiful unborn kids.

When I walked around in the city one day, the latest trend seems to be as sunglassed as possible. I'm not an exception, wearing sunglasses makes me Terminator III by a second. Buildings collapse and humans fall when I wear them, even when there's too dark to see anything.

Who crashed down the world trade center six year ago, by the way? Do not look for the truth if you want to travel to US one fine day. But we have allmighty google these days, so if the question is still out there, enter the keywords above. By the way, google bot's will be crawl here between and under and over these words as well. So never comment anything, the big brother is watching.

I've placed a bet with many people about the gasoline price this summer. In some reason, I'm particularily interested about it (don't know the reason yet, maybe it is my old chunky car drinking gasoline rather than a lovely diesel in alien-invented diesel engine). Anyway it seems the oil industry is telling us to purchase diesel cars, by rising gasoline prices while the diesel stays the same. I find they're right - saves a lot of money for a consumer. I wish the diesels would start better when there's -26C outside.

I've been told blogs without pics are worthless and boring to read. I'm very happy if you have read so far and tend to read on. Meanwhile I have nothing to write about, so you have to accept mix of everyday shit and other lovely thoughts that I like.

Got a new toy, sony R1, without a camera, I'm like a soldier without a gun. Have used many of the great digital toys since 2004, starting with the Pana FZ10, but too lazy today to write any review. Michael Reichmann also doesn't care about how many pixels is the advantage over the other cameras, but rather to say if the camera feels good or not. The sony R1 doesn't feel best actually, but I like its ten megapixels and 24-120mm equiv. zoom, so the ergonimics doesn't matter this time. Time by time digicam geeks have put into paper they'r dream cam, so here's mine:

- Pentax *ist DS body (the best I've met so far)
- Canon CMOS sensor (Fuji's super CCD when canon's not available or there will be physical size issues to meet reqs for size and weight), 10mp+
- 24-200mm lens (R1 is amost there)
- 2 memory card bays (again, R1 is there with it, allowing theoretical 20Gb of media inserted)
- 2,5" flip out+twist LCD. I like it over the optical viewfinder or fixed LCD, in some reason.
- ability to take HDTV videos with high quality stereo sound (Canon S3 is a nice start in terms of sound).
- no more reqs at the moment

I've also finally replaced my old monitor Hitachi CM625, which is probably the best 17" monitor on earth. Today working on 20" Dell 2007FP, which has got the most appalling screen covering I've ever seen, smudging all the clean results delivered by any camera sensor larger than APS. It seems to be an issue that manufacturers do not want to produce clear-screen LCD-s, so I'd recommend a NEC 20WGX2 PRO for you, if you are serious about editing photos and making some design work. Meanwhile if you have tons of bucks to spend, feel free to visit Eizo or Lacie store, and you are quickly told, that 10-bit active matrix technology is unbeatable in this world :P

"It's a shitty life, but tonight.." - one of the most famous phrases of legendary ex-marillion singer Fish, quoting because of two reasons actually, first is that I recently caught myself with the thought selling my music collection (mostly progressive rock) to travel more (I'm afraid of the next 1929), second reason is that it's just so lovely sentence. If you have nothing to say to the world or people, you can have a beer or two and say "it's a shitty life, but tonigh". Time to stop for today, got to leave some room for upcoming pictures, too.

may

My blog has been down for some months (some accomodation problems), let's see if it will be working not again. More information to follow, soon :)

Artist Recommendation

Here's the link:

http://andrzejdragan.com/

Be sure to check the Biography page as well, who could tell quantum physics PhD is an artist on that high level?..... excellent work, every singe photo is admirable.

Meanwhile I read from the news that this year will be the end of the internet era, because of everyone is downloading videos, which slows down the speed of the internet. And of course, as often the bigger part of truth in comments relatated to the online news, this perticular news has been paralleled with the story we have told tens of years, that we are running out of fuel very-very soon :P now where's the truth, again?

Have you ever wondered when we all write blogs, then who has time to read it? :P

Let's start a NBEFTY campaign! (no blog entries for ten years) :P

The pic is taken in Spain again, near Trevelez. As the terrain is high some 1500m above the sea, expect a lot of cooler weather there.

What will we name this picture this time? I know! A life tunnel! I'm f***ing twenty-six bloody years old, and I feel I was born yesterday. That fast.

See you in ten years! Except when I ran out of supporters or sponsors for my new baby NBEFTY bloody campaign :P

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Happy New Year! :)

(Picture is taken in Caleta de Velez in Spain, at nighttime, November 2006.)

Spain is my favourite destination today, but let's hope martians do not destroy our planet this or next year, so there would be a theoretical chance to see other beautiful countries, too :P

Wikipedia is my favourite resource in the holy internet today, so I'm dreaming about times when I wikipedia and blogger will join forces, so I can select the word here in my blog and choose a "set this word as a link from Wikipedia" from the right-click menu :P Google, Orkut, G-mail and Blogger is acutally admirable association already, I admire the smart way they have made everything easy to simple human like everyone of us, while they always comprehend the future of globalization. So when there will be in a news that Google has bought Wikipedia, that will be the best news of a day, for me. Do they also already have e-bay? Fortunately buying something from ebay is not as easy as to make the selected text link, so I hope shopping and money will not be visible in our blogs too soon :P .. but today I will not link a single word, as I think I'll run out of time.

Opera is my favourite browser today. Easy and mail integrated to it, free, and very user friendly. Notes are saved realtime, every kind of searches are integrated, it is fast and reliable, and its logic fits my needs better than IE for example. I've tried firefox before, didn't find it a lot better than IE. Okay....

.. Were the Christmas peaceful and was the New Year's Eve fun? :) It was, for me, though I think I'm too old for fireworks and other that kind of neat stuff. We were visiting friends with our family, playing some monopol and drinking some beet.. pretty nice and peaceful.

Were you happy with 2006? I was. Not a huge success of year in term of business, however I have a daughter now and everyone is happy - that's the main thing.

I lately discovere my sister has a neat blog somewhere in the endless space there, I knew she has had it for a while, but it's me whos far too lazy to check it. Anyway I've found it interesting and it is in my bookmarks folder now. Have you also been thinking when we all have blogs, who's going to read them? In one way or another, blog is a trend, and even our minister of economics thinks so. It seems the blog has just become something we can't compete without? The super fast and easy way to declare what you have.

High-speed connection is also a standard. I'm more or less an internet geek, and Estonia has made a huge success in terms of high-speed connection and wifi. I've moved on wifi by myself (I hate these wires), also replaced traditional computer with a laptop one (finally the cables are all gone except the power cable).

There are also actually another cable remained, my 7 years old CRT monitor cable. There's room for LCD displays to produce as vivid picture as the last trinitron-based CRT-s do, and as I do not have money to buy EIZO, I have to wait for some time :P applce cinemas and LaCies are also OK, but CRT is better (also for my eyes). As with the wire/cable saga, I do not think it's over yet, now we have USB cables instead of power and network ones :P

I've also finally updated my gallery page, pics from a Spain & Portugal trip November 2006 are now up. About 300 pics out of 5000, is it quantity or quality? You tell. * * * * * * * *

I've recently discovered my old VW takes a lot of fuel travelling around in the city. When there are still rude oil remained in 2010, I'm hoping to upgrade to TDI engine/car :P I can drive 500km today with my non-turbo 1.8 gar engine today, while I could drive 1000km with the TDI engine :P, while the cost of the fues is the same. The OPEC official site also declares that the organization thinks the oil prices will be stable this year in 2007. Let's see.

If you have a chance, also check out the Dec 2006 National Geographic magazine, very interesting reading as always, special article about Dubai this time. Atlantis of this millennium?

I've also read from the news that the ex dictator of Iraq is executed lately, what do you think will it bring more peace to the world? What will happen with Cuba when it finally gets access to democracy? :) Will europeans make goods one day again? (they're making money these days more or less, as manufacturing has moved to China more or less). So living well these days seems to mean you are able to produce shit out of your mouth with asking as much for it as possible. If you want to get rich, I'd recommend you to publich a book talking about "how to get rich?" :) or convey a conference "how to sell your products better" with the ten thousand seat auditory the ticked priced $200 per face :P

Looking forward to the Peking 2008 olympic games also, I'd like to see how grand will the games be?

Will the world press officially introduce aliens to human this year? We are curious since Roswell, aren't we :)

We are living in an interesting times :)

so this is christmas?

Two days more, and it is christmas again. Have you spent all your bucks and credit cards buying gifts for your friends and family? Or did you created something by yourself? :)

Have you seen this cool picture? Describes the christmas mania well these days :P
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/12795842/

No extra news from last post. Gray and desperate, as always in November.
Fresh snow makes us smile :) Alaska forever :)

OK. Have a couple of beer now - and don't be late at supermarket, otherwise you'll be left without gingerbread dough :P