I prefer Chrome because its updater also includes the flash plugin, and it has its own pdf-reader plugin.

Chromium also doesn't do releases, just lots of bleeding edge snapshots, and one or two of those have been badly broken.

I switched from Chromium for the PDF reader. It's nice.

For a while, just copying the PDF reader plugin from a Chrome installation to a Chromium installation worked for me. I've switched to FF Nightly, but you could give it a try to see if it works.

You've never heard of an evil genius?

I don't see it as a genius either way. It's not technological breakthrough or anything, just a simple trick.

I can actually see a good argument for the API remaining read-only so that Google+ emphasises original content and doesn't just end up as a ghost-town full of content syndicated in from elsewhere and sending people off to another site to join in the real conversation.

Yeah good point.

Surely this will be unavoidable for Google - they'll need to open up write access for third party apps, and they'll be wanting those for sure.

It'd be fine by me if Google didn't open up API write access, or if they did such messages were banished to another tab, like the Games section.

You can already do this with the Buzz tab.

Then the majority will not use it, because they will not want to abandon the old site entirely.

The fee for Sunrise B appears to be almost the same as the annual fee for actually registering. I assume you won't have to renew, though.

It is a one-time fee. About 200 dollars. godaddy has the lowest price that I've seen (199.00). I think it's a smart idea (if you own a registered trademark) as 200 dollars is a lot cheaper than getting attorneys to go after trademark violators... even if it's a guaranteed win. Registered trademarks carry a lot of legal protection and someone would have to be nuts to try and build a porn website using a registered trademark that they did not own. No legit company would do that as their lawyers should catch it and realize the potential financial doom.

I would have assumed that the AOL deal wouldn't allow Arrington to set up a competitor so soon.

All vendors want market share in the Netherlands, so a few Dutch CAs get on the list; and they all want market share in China so the Chinese Ministry of Information gets on the list.

No browser wants to be the one which doesn't work with someone, somewhere's bank, so once you're on one list, you tend to get added to all of them; and it becomes nigh-on impossible for marketing reasons to remove anyone from the list ever.

15 years later, browsers have 80 CAs and 200 certificates built-in.

...and what compounds the problem is that CAs are trusted on an all-or-nothing basis - you don't have a concept of "this CA is trusted only for .nl domains, and this other CA is trusted only for .cn and .hk domains".

Chrome plugins are too limited, but could this functionality be implemented via a Firefox extension?

We don't know that they didn't get a forged certificate for ssl.google-analytics.com.

Diginotar haven't (AFAIK) released even a partial list of affected domains, other than admitting that there were quite a lot of them.

Quite true. If they did get a certificate for ssl.google-analytics.com, I guess the title of my post should have been "We're paying attention to the wrong forged SSL certificate" -- the contents of the post is still valid, though.

The pictures aren't representative of Tallinn as a whole, certainly not the central parts, but it is probably fair to say that it is more run-down in parts than similar cities in wealthier countries. (Remember that Estonia isn't rich -- GDP per capita is one third that of Belgium, for example.) How much you see of this obviously depends on where you live and where you go.

Best single Tallinn resource is probably In Your Pocket: http://www.inyourpocket.com/estonia/tallinn

You can pick this up cheaply in the city, download the pdf from their site for free, or get their iPhone app (also free).

Also new and interesting-looking is http://www.likealocalguide.com/tallinn

There is no great definitive online expat forum.

Also: when looking up stuff online, learn to love Chrome's built-in translation functions, and remember that it (and Google Translate) unfortunately does a better job with Russian than it does Estonian.

Awesome, thanks!

dittoing these sites.

If the grand-parent wants to be central, try Vanalinn (the old town), Kesklinn (city centre), and Kadriorg.

Also remember that many buildings don't have elevators.

Thanks!

Actually that's a very good question that I need to add to my list ("what's considered city center?").

7-8 months is certainly exaggerating, but 5 months is still a pretty long time to have snow on the ground.

At least the snow is white for most of this time (rather than dirty/sooty brown/grey as in many other cities), and it's less windy and humid than I'm used to in the winter (so it doesn't feel as cold as the thermometer says).