OK, I have a weird question for all of you ( Read more... )

This morning I woke up at 6 in the morning to go out to the Port of Tel Aviv, have coffee and a croissant with friends and get a quick interview with Jeff Pulver for Crictor.co.il before his Tel Aviv Social Breakfast. I don't do mornings. Even with the coffee and the sugar, I still don't do mornings. Even with the sea right there, which certainly ( Read more... )

Caught from Robert Scoble's twitter, where he was re-tweeting from someone else ( Read more... )

I'm currently tracking the word "Israel" on Twitter, just out of curiosity, and a fascinating paper came across the line just now. It's about the use of mobile phones by teenage Arab girls in Israel. The phones are given to them by their (illicit) boyfriends and must be hidden from parents, brothers, and others. They are used, of course, to ( Read more... )

Yes, they really can.

By pulling new broadband fiber into place.

Oh, yeah! I miss the roots...

Over the last two days I've been fiddling with Zimbra. I fired my only on-staff tech support guy last week, and so I ended up doing the whole server install myself.* I'm still in the midst of the migration, but I've managed to get the first two employee trainings done, and I've gotten the CEO's and the VP of Operations' calendars imported, shared ( Read more... )

My phone, a Sony Ericsson k610i, is able to unlock in my pocket, connect to the Internet and start purchasing stupid stuff that I would never purchase on my own. The mystery is not how it connects to the Internet... that's a one key thing. The mystery is not how it makes purchases... my service provider's home page has a link to purchase stupid ( Read more... )

I frequently get asked, "How can we get more girls into technology?" Girl Scouts of America has a very nice site called Girls Go Tech, and on it they have a booklet for parentsIf there is a girl in your life, a daughter, a niece, a granddaughter, or whatever and you want to encourage her in math and science, read this booklet! I like the fact that ( Read more... )

For those of you who have never used the Internet outside of the US, you may not realize that the advertisements and some of the content you get is different when you are in different places. This is like cable TV showing different commercials in different markets, or putting shows on at different hours for the folks in the Central Time Zone. (Why ( Read more... )