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Cubical freak-out

October 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Someone sent this to me, cubical freak out. Entertaining, and reminds me how happy I am to not be working in in a cubical. I shouldn’t say that too loudly.
http://www.eyegas.com/cubiclefreakout/
I’m rated as a “nutter” and should take the rest of the day off because the internet told me so. I found this [...]

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what is web 2.0? – old ponderings

October 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Going through my old post drafts, “cleaning my blog house”, and found this post draft from last year (or maybe the year before). Seems semi-relevant, so what the heck, going ahead and publishing it. Even if some of my points then, seem wrong today. enjoy, critique, flame, etc as you wish.
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Someone [...]

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photo album is fixed again!

October 18th, 2007 · No Comments

After a long hiatus, it’s back.

No way!!!!
After constant nagging requests from relatives back in the US i caved in, and just fixed it. I was stubbornly waiting for a fix to the pluggin code that never came.And a load of new photos are live on flickr again. Still about a month [...]

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updated all the sites to wordpress 2.3

October 18th, 2007 · No Comments

So I spent yesterday (all day) reading about and upgrading my various blogs to the latest release of WordPress 2.3, my preferred blogging platform, or semantic something something as they call it. I was long overdue to run some updates and 2.3 offers some great features, which I won’t repeat here.
Be sure to check [...]

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Hélène Darroze, excellent cuisine, poor service

August 12th, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.helenedarroze.com/
For my wife’s birthday, I took her to Helene Darroze, and I would rate the overall experience just a hair over the positive mark, bordering on rant. I’m very mixed on whether I would go there again. We’ve been to many of the top restaurants in Paris, so we have a good comparison. I [...]

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Rafa on video – laughing with mom

June 20th, 2007 · No Comments

more happy time.
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Rafa on video – laughing session with his dog

June 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Always in a good mood in the morning, Patricia is playing with his little stuffed dog.
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Rafa on video – and he’s a morning person

June 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Obviously got that from mom.  He’s a happy boy almost every morning, but who doesn’t like to chill out with the entire bed to themselves, and still be in their PJs when everyone else is going to work.  what a life.
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jobmob.co.il, help me, help a friend

April 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

A friend of mine, Jacob Share, recently launched a blog to help people in finding a job. Helping people, I like it. Quick summary of the site:
JobMob – is an English website dedicated to the community of job seekers and jobfinders in Israel, where ‘jobfinders’ are people who want to help those job seekers find [...]

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photo album still down

April 26th, 2007 · No Comments

apologies to friends, family and stalkers, the photos section of my blog is still full of errors after in spontaneously imploded after uploaded the big load of our Jordan vacation pics. I’ve not had time in the last few months to tinker with much of anything. Will ping you when it’s up, until [...]

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