megidish dot net: genius at work

The black photo shown below is no error. It’s how it was really like.

Along with a friend, I went to the Dialog In The Dark (heb), a truly life changing experience. In a one hour tour, we were guided in a completely dark environment by a blind guide. The tour goes through 7 locations you are familiar with as a person, such as a public garden, your house and a bar. We were eight people moving around without seeing anything, only equipped with a walking stick. It’s amazing how you perceive stuff when your visual sensory system is off. Personally, I thought I’d go crazy in the first 10 minutes, and I almost did. It never grows on, and even after an hour of black, your brain still generates random white dots, trying to make up for what’s just not there.

I advise everybody to experience this. It has so many implications on your life, that you just can’t miss it.

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.

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!

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.

Google must love me.

I haven’t put much work into this yet. This is a learning project, and it has its learning curve. As you all remember, a few days ago I announced (hear hear) that I’m trying an ambitious project, optimizing “Genius at Work” to link to megidish.net.

* Sep 21: not at all in google
* Sep 22: @350
* Sep 23: @150
* Sep 24: @120
* Sep 27: @24 !

That’s right! I’m on the 3rd page of google, and it’s all automatic. So what have I done so far?

1. Changed title of megidish.net to “genius at work”. Though the density of the title is desaturated by “megidish.net”.
2. Changed in wordpress the name of the blog, so ALTs now contain the same phrase
3. Changed some of my social networks user accounts (such as dig) to include the name “g@w” as website-name
4. Wrote a post about it, and used <strong> around it.

That was it. Now, starting from place 24, lets see if I can make it to number #1. Any bets?