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Snow

admin — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:48:32 +0000

It’s snowing here in Jerusalem now, which doesn’t happen so ofter here, and is an excuse for some fun and photos.

My street, taken form the roof of my building.

Wahl Rose Park.

Love what you do

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:49:00 +0000

In web terms, this in not new, but still really worth watching. Steve Jobs’ commencement speech to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005, Is one of the most inspiring things I heard. Worth watching.

Paid Reviews – Am I selling out?

admin — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:08:24 +0000

You may have noticed that a ReviewMe paid review appeared on this blog. Am I selling out?
Well, being a work-from-home freelancer, I am exploring new ways of making money online. But I don’t want to compromise the quality of my personal blog. I put too much time and effort into it.
The good thing about ReviewMe.com is that the review does not have to be positive. So I will try to always say what I feel. Right now, being on the bottom of the ReviewMe food chain, the only offers I’m receiving are for sites that are spammy or just plain crappy. I only will review sites that have some interest to this blog’s topics, and are at least attempts at something useful. If I think sites need improvement, that’s what constructive criticism is about.
Ideally, I would like to review those cool sites that any blogger would be glad to review for free. But they don’t pay for reviews, do they?

I would like to ask the readers, is it annoying in any way to read a blog with payed reviews?

ReviewMe: Thoughts.com

admin — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:17:38 +0000

Welcome to web 2.1, the social web. Following MySpace, Facebook, Blogger and others, it’s the new thing. Site owners realized that their real power is their users, and getting them more involved can only do good. Thoughts.com is a social networking site that offers free blogs for the users, as well as the Thoughts.com Forums.

The forum is quite alive, and has over 30,000 members. The sub forums cover a super-wide range of subjects, and basically covers anything and everything. I think this can be useful so every user finds his niche, but sometimes over broadening the spectrum can be overwhelming for users that want to belong to something more specific.

The site home page contains latest blog posts as well as latest news.
The site offers photo, video and podcast uploading systems, made simple for users. Again, a lack in proper categorizing makes the spectrum a bit too broad for a user to actually find content he is looking for. Most podcasts are just songs. Podcast episodes do not seem to be linked together, which is a real downside is someone wants to get seriously into podcasting. Same with photos, only one category, uncategorized, which contains 823 pages of pure randomness.

As for the blogging service, there’s no distinctive style and all the posts look a bit mashed together. I thought I would be able to write more about this, but it looks quite disappointing.

Bottom Line, Users are king, and with the nice number of users, this site definitely has potential, but is also needs some fine-tuning.

This is a paid review

Rome: old and older

admin — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:09:29 +0000

I recently returned from a visit to rome, and I’d like to share a cool picture I took of some old buildings (every building in that city is old) through an arch of the colosseum.

Best web 2.0 mom joke

admin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:54:35 +0000

My Desktop – August 27

admin — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:24:35 +0000

Even though I said I was going to do it once a week, I’ve been quite busy lately and didn’t have much time for blogging.
This weeks picture is one I took in Norway, of Geirangerfjord and the town of Geiranger (and yes, I know the picture in wikipedia is better then mine, but I used mine ) If enough people are interested, I’ll release it for the public here on this site, and maybe even fix it up a bit first.

Macro photography in Scandinavia

admin — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:15:56 +0000

I just came back form Scandinavia last week. I was touring Denmark, Sweden (well, kindu just drove through, but I did visit Gothenburg) and Norway.
Sooner or later I’ll upload a photo album, but for now, I will share one photo, taken in the Geirangerfjord area in Norway. Obviously, most photos taken in that area are landscape pictures, zooming out all the way to catch as much of the (amazing) view possible. I have tons of those, and I’m sure most of you saw enough of those. But this is a close-up picture I took of mushrooms and other stuff growing on a rock, next to a melting glacier. as big as they may look, each mushroom was about the size of a penny. Enjoy!

Copenhagen Rooftops

admin — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:11:22 +0000

Although this blog started out as more of a tech blog, now that I’m traveling the world a bit, it’s also a travel blog. I am traveling Scandinavia now, And yesterday I walked around Copenhagen (Actually the locals call it KÃ¸benhavn, a prize if you can pronounce that. I will give no hints.)
Here’s a picture of Copenhagen rooftops I took from the Round Tower, known as the RundetÃ¥rn, which just means Round Tower in Danish.

Sinai & Weekley Screenshot

admin — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:03:52 +0000

I spent a few days last week in Bir Sweir, Sinai. It’s an amazing experience to spend a few days on a golden beach in the dessert, ding absolutely nothing (well, except playing backgammon, known as Shesh-Besh)
We did not have a good camera with us, and that’s a great pity, because the place is amazing.
I uploaded some pictures to this album.

Now for my weekly screenshot. This week i used one of my Sinai pictures, but with the quality not being the greatest, I blurred it a bit to give it the look of an oil painting. If people think its good enough, I will release it here.