internet: 53% broadband: 48% inhabitants. 1,3mill thereof russian: 345.000 e-voting: 2007 same year: a statement from the president transported by media: 97% electronic bank transfer (can someone explain this number?)

das russische erbe
estonia denied their russian inhabitants an estonian passport and still treats them as foreigners or people without papers or 1st generation immigrants, who need to apply for citizenship, yet some of them were relocated there already 1940 by stalin. there are tensions and nationalism. they have a similar history as cataluña and a similar law for language usage. also russian need to pass a language test if they want to be estonians. to be accepted as a member of the eu they had at least to change their policy a little bit and were forced to sweep out some inequities against minorities. | russian minority in the baltics states and the enlargement of the eu

january 2008. the trail against four estoninas of russians origians begins | bbc.
according to the the military representative of the estonian delegation to NATO the attacks started with a demonstration that became a riot after the statue of a soviet ww II soldier was moved from the centre of the capital tallinn. one person died and several were injured. reading history it seems that this event just the tip of the iceberg.

surprise surprise - there were some tiny little cyperattacks, yet minimally disruptive, weathered. | cso

there is a blog reporting about the trail.

wondering why c4i specialists still use a truly 1990s vocabulary. who else says cyberspace those days?

le monde recalls cyclade

The election of president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing rang the final bell for the delegation of Computer science and subsequently for the interest in Cyclades. “They told us in essence: “Fellow researchers, you have done a good job, but now, you have to let industry take over,” the engineer recalls. For the peoples who were in charge at that time, it was clear that this research was finished. Instead, they told us that we needed to find applications in order to “computerize the society.”

today pouzin chairs the idea of a multilingual internet and is called at nlic as "godfather of the internet". another one. now i know two of them. would be interesting to bring them together, to lean back and to listen.

i forgot what picture the sendung mit der maus was using to describe packet switching and routing, yet the best comes from the archive:

Paul Baran proposed a mesh network of computers joined by communication circuits that handled digitized speech in short burst. The mesh form of the network gave many alternative paths between any two subscribers trying to communciate with each other, and an adaptive routing method called the hot potato technique was proposed to give reliable communication; even if parts of the network were destroyed by enemy attack while calls were in progress. Only when no possible path remained were two subscribers prevented from conversing. | donald davies, derek barber: communication networks for computers, wiley, 1973

the original: hot potato routing

just in case you need to explain networking to your procreation one day.