From Gichin Funakoshi to Hidetaka Nishiyama and Moshe Rokah: My old love story with Karate

In my late teenage years and early twenties I used to practice Karate in a group named Fujiyama. It was a non-profit group of friends so we didn’t have any place of our own to use as a Dojo. Thus, we used this helicopter landing facility in Gan Saker park in Jerusalem, just a few […]

Conceptis 3: get your brain ready

If you like logic puzzles and teasing your brain with the highest quality of intellectual entertainment you might want to read further as well as check out again every now and then as I plan to start posting some updates on the subject discussed here. The first version of conceptispuzzles.com, then under the domain name […]

Skype is a problem

Someone I know has already convinced me long time ago that being Skype such a dominant player in the global Internet VOIP arena is a major problem that needs to be taken care of by the open source community. Today, when Skype managed to have some kind of significant malfunction making it completely unusable for […]

The most colorholic website

I think I just found the most bingo website for my beloved wife, who’s a professional designer but also a real colorholic. ColourLovers.com is for anyone who is really crazy for colors. Whether for ad campaigns, product design, or even in architectural specification: if you love colors you have to check this site. Apart from […]

the.co.ils Zone

Have you been looking for better access to the people behind the Israeli internet industry? Check out the.co.ils Zone – new a social network for internet operations allowing direct contact with Start-up companies Venture Capital groups and other companies and people. Announced just yesterday, the.co.ils Zone is interesting and somewhat different by allowing its members […]

Lawnmower’s day

From Garden It’s Wednesday and I never touch the lawnmower before weekends. Yet, I just realized this evening has to be different. Bummer? not at all. Sometimes hard labor has very good reasons: tomorrow, July 12 2007, 18:30 Israel time, is not only Carmel’s second birthday but also the first International Conceptis gathering involving website […]

The Internet Frog: test your bandwidth

internetFrog.com provides this cool tool for testing both your download – the speed at which your Internet connection downloads data to your PC from the Internet and your upload – the speed at which your Internet connection uploads data from your PC out to the Internet. The Internet Frog tool also reports the Quality of […]

Moshe Aluminum

The Aluminum man came again yesterday. finally finished the job. did a good one. new nets, additional safety bolt in the back yard window, new rubber strips for the shower. They usually are doing a good job, their problem has to do with time-to-market than with product quality. But I am not complaining. His name […]

outside at the local post office

I went outside today. the local post office. I think the last time I was out of home was exactly 10 days ago. Yes. Friday, June 15. went out to Ikea. Anyway while i was waiting at the line i noticed this crashed Windows blue screen. I have been using the services of this post […]

The Baghdad Batteries

The earliest known artifacts that may have served as batteries are the Baghdad Batteries, which existed some time between 250 BC and 640 AD. However, it is not known what electrical function they may have served, and if they were in fact batteries at all. Modern batteries provide accurate power source until they drop dead […]