A little bit of Moscow

Finally we will get to know that!

Today in the evening news it was announced that in Estonia parliamentary commission will be created to find out where gossips are coming from! Ju-huuuu! Finally we will get to know that!

Of course, I have used it out of context, and actually they were talking about sunken passenger ferry Estonia. However, somehow it does not change the meaning very much. Interesting anyway, how they are going to find out where gossips are coming from :)))

Postive news

Yesterday I was pleased to read in BNS news that Estonian government has ordered research on possibilities to introduce new tram lines in Tallinn city. For example, to airport and to Lasnamäe or Mustamäe, large living districts. Hallelujah!
Of course, it's only research and not a promise to introduce those lines; nevertheless, it has been ordered. Otherwise it has been very sad to watch all those municipal election promises about huge investments into roads for car travel. Seems that development of public transport has stuck somewhere. Every morning I walk to work and watch how cars are waiting in the traffic jam, and then half-empty tram is passing.
Besides, modern tram lines perhaps would help to change the image of public transportation. I have got impression that here in Tallinn it's regarded as something bad if one is traveling to work by public transport.

a little bit of repetition

Not so long time ago I complained about lack of time for reading. There is small solution to it. I found out that reading while brushing my teeth is very good thing. Otherwise I'm anyway not doing anything meaningful apart from staring at myself in the mirror. True, this method is not good for books, but rather for short articles in press. Besides, it has some good effects on tooth brushing as well because it simply takes longer time.
There is also advanced version: already pretty long time ago I proposed brushing teeth with left hand (or, well, with other hand than you usually do). So, reading and brushing teeth with the other hand at the same time - that's pretty tricky stuff!

IT Wonders

My last adventure in IT world is using Estonian ID card for entering internet bank, checking different registers and learning how to sign document electronically. Pretty cool, I would say! Especially taking into account that Latvians still have not reached ID card and I still have to remember to take my passport when going to Latvia.

How I got there is that I fell into trap organised by political party. Before municipality elections they are organising free training on how to use ID card for elections and distributing to every participant free ID card (basically smart chip card reader). That was the catcher for me. I never bothered to buy one for 300 kroonas, but now I decided that I can survive this one hour of election campaign to get one. To my big surprise there was no propaganda during the training at all, except for the sticker with the party name on the card reader. However, I was pleased that the sticker was easily removable not like some price tags in shops :)).
And the actual trap is that I even want to participate in elections. I am allowed to elect in municipal elections. Only my motivation is kind of wrong - I simply want to try how electronic elections work. The problem is I have no idea whom to vote for since I am totally politically ignorant person, and I don't really care who is there in Tallinn municipality. It might turn out to be simply random choice :)
And one more observation: there were approximately 30 persons in the training, and out of them only 5 male.