I had a chat with shlomif, in which he told me about http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?perl. This Web page proposes that qwertyists and dvorakists, who program in perl, switch to yet another keyboard layout, which is optimized for this task ( Read more... )

The cause was that my ADSL connection got stuck due to sudden disconnection.
The problem was solved by resetting the ADSL connection from Bezeq's side.

For future reference, I am writing some information which I collected during the process.

I use the following script to connect to ADSL:

#!/usr/bin/perl ( Read more... )

• The bastards stole my car shortly before it was going to need overhaul!
• My car succumbed to the charms of a car thief and eloped with him.
• My car has been organlegged (inspired by Larry Niven).
• I suspect that my car was enlisted to assist in a bank robbery.
• My car was sold, in exchange for $0 and notification of the police, to a car thief.

According to Dale Carnegie, God gave humans two ears and only one mouth so that they'll speak less and listen more.
For deaf people, it is two eyes vs. one mouth ( Read more... )

In Buying a Wii, the blogger in question is sharing with us the hair-raising tale of his adventure. The yarn is probably fictional. Nevertheless, it is a good read.

http://henrykisor.com/blog/2006/12/14/sometimes-the-press-just-effs-up/ demonstrates just how funny can newspaper gaffes be sometimes. My all-time favorite is the gaffe in an Israeli newspaper from a generation ago. It was about a woman who owes 1000 nights to a tax collector (the Israeli word for night - layla - can easily be a misspelling for ( Read more... )

• I saw nowhere any mention of the fact that when the Neturei Karta accuse the Zionists of causing the Holocaust, they imply that the Holocaust did happen.
• The story about Iranian attitudes during the Holocaust is not given wide publicity either. Those were different times altogether.
• Nor are the stories of the "Tehran Children" being publicized. ( Read more... )

There is a book called "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins, and it is about yet another theory of the human brain's operation. The author pointed out several gaps in current researches in neurology and AI ( Read more... )

Economists and politicians routinely argue in favor of basing social assistance programs upon relative poverty lines. Such programs have the effect of favoring equalization of income in a country, rather than emphasizing the idea of a safety net for that country's residents.

Paul Graham has an interesting paragraph in his Mind the Gap article:
If ( Read more... )

Tonight, I was physically present in the memorial event held to commemorate 11th anniversary of Itzhak Rabin's assassination. The event was held in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv ( Read more... )