Saw the new Batman film yesterday evening at the Estonian pre-screening. It was quite brilliant, it had style. Christopher Nolan did a great job with it, but the most spectacular performance was by the late Heath Ledger. He played the Joker in such a convincing way that you might think that this comic book character [...]
Vacation is hard work. Today was the first day of my vacation, so naturally I was at work finishing some unfinished business. This evening, however, I will escape from the city and spend a few days in Western Estonia, including Haapsalu and Saaremaa.
I will be back in Tallinn again for the Thrusday evening Estonian pre-premiere [...]
This summer has been full of work until now and now I am also moving to a new apartment, which means a lot of hassle, inconvenience etc. Hopefully it will be worth the trouble.
If anyone is interested, I am renting my old studio apartment (30m2) in the city centre (Jõe 7, Tallinn; 6th floor) for [...]
High School Music 3: Senior Year Trailer
Here comes the trailer for the third part to the wildly popular teen musical. This time it will be in cinemas first. Cannot wait!
Now that my active participation with TEN and EYP is over, I have been focusing my activities on human rights issues. Namely, I am working to establish in the long-term an Estonian Human Rights Centre, the first step has been to create the Human Rights Centre at International University Audentes.
One of the projects I have undertaken [...]
Today was a day off from work, and it was remarkable in that it was quite eventless, so that it can actually be condensed into a paragraph: I woke up at 9am, surfed the internet, had a nap at noon, woke up again at 2pm, made myself some dumplings (Pelmeenid tilliga), ate them and started [...]
The above quote from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland was evoked by a judge in the first decision since the US Supreme Court ruled that Guantanamo Bay prisoners should have recourse to civil courts. The court said:
First, the government suggests that several of the assertions in the intelligence documents are reliable because they are made in at [...]
In an interview to the Associated Press on board the flight back from Khanty-Mansiisk president Ilves explains why he walked out of the Fenno-Ugric Congress, and gives his thoughts on Russian developments. Nice balanced reporting from the AP, including the final quote from Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission:
“The EU is completely against all [...]
I have succumbed to temptation and written another article, this time on the arguments against compulsory military service. It is basically a condensed overview of some of the arguments against conscription, the main one being that it has a much bigger price for Estonia than proponents of it would like to show. It sparked debate, [...]
I wrote an article on the Irish No vote to EU, in which I make the rather unpopular argument that EU treaty modifications are so complex that they are not suitable for referenda. The Irish no-vote is an indirect consequence of the 1987 decision by the Irish Supreme Court, requiring Ireland to always put all EU [...]
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