I’ve had some hobby-fun of trying out how small you can squeeze the time that is needed to complete a reasonable web site from an idea to first visitors (and their positive feedback). Ideas Drawer — in 12 hours by myself. Sayat.me — idea by me, but design and code by Mooncascade in 8 hours. Garage48 — weekend event in April, I’m planning to participate.
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Ideas Drawer, Sayat.me and Garage-48 style projects in general
March 2nd, 2010
Tartu Marathon – Finished. The Main Competitor: the Bastard in the Mirror – Beated
February 23rd, 2010On Sunday I participated Tartu Marathon, the Estonian most popular traditional classical style ski marathon. This time it had a record number of participants over many years. There were 5050 people who started the longer, 63 km track, of which 4780 finished. I finished 2693rd, with the time 5h 46 minutes. I achieved my main goal and did beat my main enemy — the one I see in the mirror. A happy face after the finish:
The Results of the Yesterday’s Tartu Marathon Open Track, Main Event Next Week, Goal: Beat My Previous Year Time
February 15th, 2010Tartu Marathon organized the open track event yesterday. The actual marathon itself will be next week, but this one was also with the exact same track, distance, service points and the official times were taken. So, it was a perfect chance to test ones marathon fitness. I passed the 63 km-s with the time 5h and 13mins, which was better than I expected. I’ll go to the main event on coming Sunday with the main goal of beating my previous year result.
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I Created the Magic Drawer with the List of Business Ideas, Dwarfs in it and Everything
January 25th, 2010I found couple of planks, some nails from my garage, and I coubled up a drawer for business ideas. So, here it is: the Ideas Drawer. It has already a bunch of ideas in it (12 at the moment of writing this post), mostly written by the members of the Estonian Startup Leaders Club. You are free to come and read these ideas, but there is one catch.
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New Year Eve — -19 Degrees, Band, Smoke Sauna, Ice Hole, Lunar Eclipse, Breathtakingly Beautiful Morning
January 11th, 2010Another year sent away together with friends. This time, the place chosen for that important event was a breathtakingly beautiful winter picture near Otepää (the Estonian ski-resort). Below are some pictures (mostly not taken by me) of it.
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Preparing for Tartu Ski Marathon — Saturday Morning in the Forest, -21 C Degrees
December 21st, 2009I Spent an hour and a half in the forest this Saturday morning, 9-11 AM with -21 Celsius degrees. I did some training and I plan to spend more and more hours in such a beautiful and splendid environments. I have an ambition to survive several hours on the Tartu Ski Marathon in the end of February and beat my previous year result. Below are couple of nice pictures taken from the frost and the sunrise.
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My Digital Footprint in the Internet
November 19th, 2009Below is how my digital footprint in the internet looks. This is generated by a cool experimental DailyPerfect Facebook application that we did at DailyPerfect. I like to have the “Dark energy” under my heel… 
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How to Install WordPress MU on Windows Vista Desktop
September 7th, 2009As my blog is prowdly powered by WordPress (the non-MU version), I went through setting (the MU version of) it up onto my Vista desktop computer, to be able to try out things with it more closely. More than once things went tricky and I took some notes at those points, just in case for potential future reference. I decided to make these notes part of the global Internet noise. The result is below, starting from setting up Apache and ending with some last WordPress MU configuration option cleanup.
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The Interview with the Writer and the Director of “Startup”, a Theatrical Play by Estonian Theatre NO99
August 24th, 2009I recently found that the estonian theatre NO99 has produced a theatrical play titled “Startup”. As appropriate to any decent startup, the entire setup of the show looks rather cool and innovative. Below are some author’s thoughts I was curious to know about, and the listing of the business ideas the professional actors have came up during the improvizational on-stage brainstorming performance.
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My Video of 100 Thousand Crowd Doing Waves at Tallinn Song Festival 2009, Shot from Stage
July 20th, 2009Here is the video that I shot while being on stage of Tallinn Song Festival 2009, contributing my free hand (the other was holding camera) to the waves made by crowd of more than 100 thousand people.
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