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Death at Christmas

World: Benazir Bhutto died today.
Estonia: Jaan Kross died today.
Personal: I am going on Saturday to a funeral of one of my relatives (my great-grandmother’s sister’s daughter) who died of cancer on Christmas Eve. I really liked her.
We are all mortal
We all share at least one trait
We all die one day
Mortality is our shared human trait
But [...]

Christmas greeting video

Here is a seasonal greeting from me to everyone.

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays to everyone from me. I hope everyone can use the holidays for something they have been meaning to do for a long time, but were not able to, because of work. I also hope that you not only can relax your body, but recharge your mind with magic and goodwill for the next [...]

Relationships

Christmas is an emotionally difficult time for me every year as it is a time one should share with loved ones. I do share it with my family, whom I love, but it I also feel sad that I do not have that special someone, a person I could share this and other events in [...]

My Body Mass Index

I have calculated my body mass index and found out that my BMI is 25kg/m2. The good news is: “The people who lived the longest of all were those with BMIs of 25, which lies between the ideal and overweight margins.”

Welcome to karijournal.com

Welcome to karijournal.com
I have moved my blog to a new address and I am using WordPress instead of Blogger now.

Next week: Tartu

I have decided to escape from Tallinn for the next week (especially as it is the Blue Week in Tallinn) and go to Tartu. It is a peaceful and quiet place, and I hope I can relax there. I will pop back to Tallinn briefly on Wednesday.
Plans, of course, have the tendancy to change, so [...]

Hooked to my bookmarks

I spend too much time online, consuming all kinds of information. In the last year or so I have started to rely on bookmarks for my browsing needs. These bookmarks are mostly to RSS feeds of interesting blogs and news sites. They are divided into my areas of interest such as the technology (Mac), Estonian [...]

Hectic times

I sometimes feel that I am floating through my life, because there is many things to do and yet I have so little time to do them. Or… Not so much to do them, but to have some breathing and digesting room in between. It sometimes feels that for certain issues I do not have [...]

What do the following people have in common with me?

Philip Baker Hall, Karl Lagerfeld, Bill O’Reilly, Chris Columbus, Peter Nelson, Colin Firth, Guy Ritchie, James Duval, Ryan Phillippe.
They all celebrate their birthday today. They all have born on the same day of the year as I.