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Letting go

Rogel @ April 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet

We didn’t have subway in my small hometown, in the Israeli desert, but the norm was the same. I always wonder about the level of independence that our parents gave us compare to what we are giving to our children. My mother claim that the world was very much different twenty years ago, but that […]

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Awakening

Rogel @ January 22, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Finally the Academia start to swing back from it state of madness. It is obvious that an attempt to re-establish classical studies, the core of western civilization, is being fought by the current establishment. It is very interesting to note that those who protect multiculturalism and political correctness are:
As worthy as such projects sound, setting up an […]

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Making life easier

Rogel @ December 10, 2006 # No Comment Yet

I am not a member of the three monitors club, but it is only a meter of time. In the meantime two monitors setting, at work and at home, working perfectly fine for me. I guess I’m the middle way between modernization and progress and shunning technology
 

 

 

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The Library budget vote

Rogel @ December 9, 2006 # No Comment Yet

Growing up in Israel I’m accustomed for a mentality of disconnect between the tax collected and the government budget. It isn’t rare than when discussing an issue it will be referred as "It is free, it is paid by the state", or "The state should fund this" without making the connection to the fact […]

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Yet another PR brilliancy

Rogel @ May 25, 2006 # One Comment

people don’t want to have great conversations with the phone company, they want great service. They don’t want honest, open conversation with the car manufacture, telling them openly how sucks there are – they want great car.

You can trust a PR professional to come with reality distorting theory like this […]

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Reading from Paper

Rogel @ January 7, 2006 # No Comment Yet

A lot was written about the decline of newspaper, most of it correct. The fact is that newspaper as source of immediate news is archaic and the news organizations did not do enough to adopt new approaches.
However, the old fashion that we are, we love to read from paper – books and newspapers. Personally when […]

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