There's got to be a better solution to international conflicts than to cordon off the area and insert 'international peacekeeping forces' .. 

just in case anyone was wondering about firefox 3 -- i installed it on my 3-year old iBook and it flies compared to firefox 2 which was always kinda laggy ..  it also looks nicer and has better features to boot.

    it's so weird to revisit lj and find old friends still posting in my absence.. so much has changed since i last looked, i'm married, and a father, i've learned so much, and my life has transformed endlessly..   it seems at face value like everyone here is still the same --  which means basically whatever it is about someone that makes them ( Read more... )

my newer blog is up @ http://thismortal.co.il/blog/i update that one semi-regularly ( Read more... )

having been using gmail for a while now.. i can safely say, it's the first webap i've seen that makes proper use of the DOM so as not to need to reload the whole page on each click.

also, when it's not freaking out and getting really annoying, it's an amazingly useful tool. i likes.

i just realized the best reason to switch away from Yahoo mail, every time i want to sign in i start typing my username and then have to stop and click secure, then wait for the login page to load again, then log in. that is just plain annoying. why even have a non-secure login option? Hotmail and GMail both only have a secure mode as far as i can ( Read more... )

Remember the board game Risk ( Read more... )

i need less transience and more functionality and flexibility than a blog, but more predetermined order than a Wikki.. (but it should have the potential to be directionless like a wikki should one want it like that) ..hmm what to make.. what to make.. i mean i made dNote for myself but i think it would be too complicated (ie. annoying) and it's ( Read more... )

I've always heard about it, and there used to be one on Emek Refaim near where I used to live.. but it closed down. I never really paid it much attention, it's a fad. But, I didn't realize it was expanding too such an extent that it's become like Scientology. The shocking part was the (alleged) fact that they are required to give 1/10th of their ( Read more... )

my cow-orker Oren accidentally came up with a new coinage: "zeuschrist" (copyright and trademark him).. or maybe he just said jesuschrist but i heard zeuschrist which is funnier.. plus if you say it fast enough and in a commanding tone it sounds like a german word..