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Big Brother is alive in Sydney

Published by gawd August 15th, 2008 in Philosophy. 0 Comments

The thumbnail in blue is of a photo I took in Sydney, Australia. This horrifying ad can be seen all over the city and calls people to give their friendly government-man a ring when they are -a little bit- suspicious of their friends, spouses and family members. Of all three Big Brotherish phenomenons, this one scares me the most. Think of a kid who needs some privacy and locks himself in a room to browse some adult rated websites; a husband who cheats on his wife (I don’t endorse it, but it happens and quite often). Regardless the situation, such ads discourage communication between humans and solving problems between themselves. Higher authority hould never come first.

and now.. 3rd Appearance in Newspaper

Published by gawd May 1st, 2008 in Life. 0 Comments

Third newsprint to feature… me! Yeah! My friend Bianca suddenly stumbled upon a photo of me in Timeout Tel Aviv magazine. This shot was taken two weeks ago; I decided to go with my casual Threadless look. ’nuff said, enjoy the article

Oh! Btw, I’m also happy to tell you all that my blog, this blog, the very same blog that you’re wasting your time on right now, has its pagerank rate bumped to PR5! Yeah! It means I’m important, you are my friend; so you are important as well Love you.

2nd Newspaper Appearance

Published by gawd April 14th, 2008 in Life. 0 Comments

Right! I just made my second appearance in the newspaper. This time it’s the real estate section of The Marker newspaper (delivered daily.) Actually, it was in the newspaper on thursday, /and/ on the weekend edition on friday! What’s it all about? Read the entire explanation on the flickr photo page (just click on the image blow.)

It’s quite funny how this thing catches on. Viral marketing put to practice! Today I had another photo shooting, this time it was the casual me with my threadless panda shirt! yah! I’ll post the scan when I get a copy this weekend.

Totally forgot. My -FIRST- newspaper appearance was back in 1997 (I think.) I got first place in a programming competition (Turbo Pascal) and won my school a trophy (and got me enough money for a x2 cd burner!). The school got a treadmill, which I never got to see, cause I skipped sports class in favor of more computer time Oh, the irony.

Big City Life

Published by gawd February 17th, 2008 in Life. 0 Comments

I can’t get this damn song out of my head!

Yeah, I’m big in Japan, .. I mean Tel Aviv. That’s what I said. (Checking my watch,) I have been here for two weeks now! As it happens, I _walked_ to the cafe I’m sitting in right now and writing this email. Every now and then something pops up in my mind and I tell myself /this has to be blogged/. I’m a guy from a small town, and it really shows. Naivety turned into paranoid.

Too many people here. And I notice them all. I have already visited far larger cities, such as New York and Tokyo, but the noise outside is in a foreign languages and blends nicely with the white noise cars make. Where do all these people come from? Where are they going? How come everybody is sitting in cafes and restaurants at daylight, nobody’s working? I don’t get it.

Wow, there’s so much to tell, so much to show. I’ll take it slowly, here’s one photo I took. More on my flickr stream.

New Blog Launched

Published by gawd January 3rd, 2008 in Code. 0 Comments

My …. fifth blog, Coding Aloud has been launched. Yay!

Previously named “Code-o-strophe”, Coding Aloud is a blog aimed for programmers and web administrator. I will share as much as I can about everything I’ve been through managing my 1000 websites. First post is already up, so make sure you visit:

http://coding-aloud.blogspot.com

Che Che Che Changes!

Published by gawd December 12th, 2007 in Life. 0 Comments

Total lost of momentum. I really hate it. Productivity level is a lot lower, and I can’t seem to find a way to organize and prioritize my to-do list. It’s been ages since I posted about creativity, so let me just fill you guys up with what I’ve been up to in the past 2 months.

1. Flimmr is almost ready. Need to kick things into gear and get this baby on the road.
2. My awesome Facebook framework is working perfectly, with a first use:
3. Rubik’s Cube for Facebook; turn a photo from your fb album into a rubik cube and send to other people / post to profile.
4. Call4Advice.co.il is launching soon. I’m proud of it!
5. Dumpr has plenty of new features; including a pro account!
6. RSS Feed for your Flickr contacts’ favorites (not yet public)
7. Started a new blog (not yet public) called “Codeostrophe - Coding Aloud”, which will feature plenty of how-tos and experimental things with amazon s3/ec2 and facebook.
8. Got SWFUpload to work with EC2, awesome!

Christmas is around the corner, and there are a few things I need to nail down before it hits. Plenty of work work work. Works is the only thing between me and Australia!

Hugs everybody. Send me love emails!

A Month Later..

Published by gawd November 26th, 2007 in Life. 0 Comments

It has been a bit over a month since the villa security was breached and my wares stolen. It has also been a month without an entry in my blog. It all feels so temporarily. The whole work-work-work momentum has been lost, I still don’t have a camera, no playstation, my new laptop feels like a bastard child and keeps annoying me, and my home theather system is still apart and stored safely.

I have learned from this experience; I think this is what they call learning-the-hard-way. I now have insurance over my stuff, but it doesn’t keep me asleep at night. I have 3 extra keys in my keychain, my windows have been shut and locked for a month (I open the door in the mornings to get fresh air in,) every noise outside rushes me to the windows to see if the motherfuckers have come back. And I must say it’s quite difficult to gain your concentration and focus back when you have 5 cats playing outside.

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But it still feels like shit. I’m scared of leaving my apartment alone, even thought they pretty much took everything that can easily be sold. Mofos. This post concludes this period, I promise I won’t blog about it again (unless it will be on the news that some asshole got electric shock from a laptop missing an esc button!)

Time Displacement Release v1.0

Published by gawd November 18th, 2007 in Code. 1 Comment

Hey little green men.

As promised, I’m releasing my real-time Time Displacement swf with sources. You can play with it online right now: just click on Allow and make sure you unpacked your webcam and connected it to your box. It requires Flash 9, if you don’t have it, then that sucks (get flash9 here). Flash 8 was too crappy for me to downgrade my code to

Enjoy!

The .fla (source code) is released under the GNU Public License V3. Download: Time Displacement (sources). If you have any updates or improvements, please share them back with the world; and if you make something neat out of it (ie, make it to digg frontpage, or a facebook app) then you rock! \m/, please drop me a line!

Cheers!

All That, And A Pillowcase

Published by gawd October 24th, 2007 in Life. 1 Comment

I’m very proud of the title. I love it.

I have no idea why I am blogging this today. Here I am, sitting in utter darkness, all windows shut, locked and curtained. The door is blocked by a 50kg cabinet, the lights outside are on, inside off. If that were a d&d game, I would be an elf, paranoid level 9.

I wish I could hook up the camera (the one remained) and upload some photos, but my linux (which remained) doesn’t like pnp much. I’m getting mysterious here, so I’ll just spell it out. Today, Tuesday the 23rd, my apartment was broken into. The motherfuckers used a heavy stone (20kg imo) to BREAK the door and get inside. When I got home, the laptop was gone, my Canon Powershot and my mother’s Nikon, my Playstation 2 and my sweet sweet ipod 30gb black (with lots of photos and unbacked music.)

Fuckers rot in hell:
1. The laptop has a 30 minutes battery, lets see use that
2. The laptop has two keys pulled out. They are in a matchbox somewhere in this mess. Press the ESC button and get an electric shot. (cat pulled the keys.)
3. They took the ipod and not the elastic case ($2, fuck you!)
4. Took the playstation without the joystick
5. But took the memory card with guitar hero done 28/30 on expert, and GoW2 with fish-costume bonus :’(
6. My mom’s new Nikon with unbacked birthday photos

It’s almost 2am now and I’ve been sitting over 2 hours in bed. Every time the wind blows, I rush to the windows and look for visitors. It’s a shitty feeling and I knew it would come. I’ve had this before, but last time I had a door to support, and only one way in. This time it sucks bad.

A while ago, my friends Roni & Gil dropped by to see how I’m doing. They were missing sleep and still spent a lot of time driving around and bringing me a very delicious plate of sushi. I’m in tears, and I can’t express how important that was for me. Thanks, guys.

Tomorrow is another day. And I will re-start life again. It’s funny how I always say that I should keep a webcam recording, but never write the code to..

Expect photos soon!
Hugs everybody.