Why is AT&T talking to me in Hebrew bullets?
I just received this notification from AT&T. Pretty innocuous, but, what’s up with using Hebrew letters as bullets? Odd. 
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January 2012
Orthodoxy
I’d be the last one to wade into commentary on religious topics, so I just share this link because for me it was interesting reading: > “For those who are committed to being a shomer Torah, I leave you with th...
Read more →Windows 8: Getting a new filesystem
I don’t pay much attention to Microsoft and Windows these days. I admit it, I am a hardcore Mac and Linux user, more comfortable in the unix shell than I ever was at a Dos prompt. It’s easy to forget the layers and layers and layers of complexity that exist in any operating system nowadays, even a ...
Read more →Support your local bookstore
I have a warm spot in my heart for independent bookstores, as such a store paid for my college education. My family business was a bookstore. It is no longer around however, having gone out of business years ago. Blame Amazon? Secondly, I read lots of books, and own even more. (Yes ...
Read more →Keeping emails and security under control
Do you receive tons of notification emails form your various subscriptions or social sites like Twitter and Facebook and the others? Have you thought about the impact on your productivity all these teasers are? Well, you might have forgotten (or are you too busy to figure out) how to manage or shut...
Read more →Fibonacci series and Photography
You can’t be a self-respecting computer or science geek and not have heard about the Fibonacci series. You know, 1-1-2-3-5-8… etc. How about Fibonacci’s Ratio? How about the Golden Mean or the Divine Proportion? Not sure, right? Fibonacci, and its role in art, design and photography is a little les...
Read more →Information Diet: Focus
While I am in the mood to reveal some of my weaknesses (see post on Dietingtwo days ago) let’s talk about information overload. I employ various tools and tricks to make sure I can focus on what is important to me and shut o...
Read more →Designed As Designer
If you are interested in design and especially design and architecture of software, and you have a philosophical bent, you will enjoy this essay… I can’t even attempt to summarize it’s content, and even the abstract from the paper itself is quite inscrutable: > “Conceptual integrity arises not (si...
Read more →Secret trick for losing weight
I am going to share my secret technology for losing weight. It’s a mental exercise that really works. It is inspired by the neuro-economics concept of “anchoring“. Here’s how it works: Every morning you step on your scale, right? I do. Well let’s say my...
Read more →Costa Rica Travel and Google 3D
We are thinking of planning a trip to Costa Rica. Part of the trip is to get from Tabacon to Monteverde, which I gather is a very popular tourist route, being between two of the most scenic parts of the country. We are trying to gather information about that drive. Is it realistically 3 hours? Or is it more like 6 hours? Part of my research uses Google maps, right? Have you seen the Google maps 3D driving simulation thing? It’s amazing! Follow this link to the Google Mapspage, and then locate the 3D button in the white margin on the left next to the directions. Click the button and BE AMAZED!!
“Gods of Carnage” – Huntington Theatre
I Just came back from seeing “Gods Of Carnage” at the Huntington Theatre (in Boston) tonight. Couldn’t wait to post my recommendation. It’s short (about 80 minutes – no intermis...
Read more →Netflix in Curaçao: “The Hour”, the BBC, and content licensing
I was recently visiting Curaçao and remembered that I had read that Netflix was now available in South America so I thought I would check it out. (Curaçao is not technically in South America but close enough!) Well, it worked. For one reason or another, I found a british program called “[The Ho...
Read more →Words borrowed from horse racing
I just finished reading the book Seabiscuit. I previously had no interest (and no respect) for Horse Racing. The book changed that. It was quite interesting in human and r...
Read more →Software Technology hotspots in the USA
Where in the US is hottest for Cloud Computing, or for Big Data, or for No Sql? Curious? Yeah, then you’re a geek. Here’s a quick interesting set of graphs that cover questions like that and others. US Tech Hotspots: San Fran, Boston and Utah? from GigaOm
Digital Humanities: A fancy word for blogging?
Here’s an interesting article in “The Opinionator” of the New York Times about blogging, scholarly writing and the tension between the two. He says: > “… The digital humanities, it is claim...
Read more →On the importance of learning to work in teams
David Colletta shared this link in comments to my recent post about team work. David’s link was good enough that I thought I should excerpt it to increase the chances that my colleagues and...
Read more →Serve-the-check instead of Starve-the-beast
Here’s an interesting article “Modernizing Conservatism”, yes, not my typical subject matter. Written from a Conservative’s viewpoint it critiques some of the pillars of American Conservatism that might not be ef...
Read more →Teaching: Group Projects
I’ve had occasion as you know to teach a few times at Brandeis University. The courses were in Web Development, Mobile Development and Game Development. A major component was a Product Incubator where students worked in teams to develop a product. Th...
Read more →Texting: Left and Right Hand of Government
Do you agree that prohibiting texting while driving is contradictory to texting as a way to deliver of major emergency messages? > “This week I noted a couple of different items that are a good example of the right hand of the Government not knowing what the left hand of the Government is doin...
Read more →I wish I knew more JavaScript
I know basic Javascript. I think I will be learning more soon. I think JavaScript is the language of the (near) future. Predicting what the language of the (further) future is would be impossible, as programming languages come and go. Hopefully they get better as they evolve. Why do I say that it i...
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