Rogel @ October 28, 2007 # 2 Comments
This post is a translation from Hebrew from a popular Israeli blog
Is might seem as a technical problem, but I feel it may teach us something about the way Google behaves.
Introduction: it started with a story in Israel’s channel 2 news, describing a Star of David that has been engraved into the Dahniye airport runway, […]
Rogel @ October 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I’m used for OS upgrade and pretty much loath them. I can’t recall even one Windows upgrade that went well, at the end I always needed to format the hard drive and install the new version of Windows on clean system. It is also took several months until everything that use to work in the previous version […]
Rogel @ September 21, 2007 # One Comment
In the last post I rant about the epidemic flood of social networks, and the lack of added value they providing. But I need to correct a wrong impression I might created. I do think that their is a vast use to social parameters in the Internet, most […]
Rogel @ September 20, 2007 # 3 Comments
I really don’t get it. I’m probably already way to old but I simply don’t understand the excitement about online social networks. I was tempted few years ago and opened an account in LinkedIn, and since than my only activity is to approve occasional contact. All my contacts are people I knew before, and my relationships with them […]
Rogel @ August 4, 2007 # 4 Comments
I have two Invitation to hand for Skitch, a pretty cool and somewhat useful application for Mac. If you are interested, drop me a note.
Technorati Tags: Skitch, Beta, Invitations, Mac, Software
Rogel @ July 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I like Microsoft’s SQL Reporting Services. It is a nice tool that allow me to roll tools to users fast. I usually use the reports at the beginning of projects as a way to understand the real needs, while providing a first phase useable tools. The relative easiness producing report also allow me allocating developer […]
Rogel @ June 8, 2007 # 2 Comments
I really like new software. I find software creation, when done well, an elegant and beautiful. It is not always visible, sometimes its the architecture of the database, or some very nice solution for a problem. And sometimes, just by looking at the results, the elegance and talents of the development team making me excited.
Here is a […]
Rogel @ March 20, 2007 # One Comment
I got today a link to this BBC documentary about the global warming and I watched it with great interest. Surprisingly the BBC production line is that although we are told that the reasons for the recent global worming are because of our technologies, and specifically the increase of CO2, the scientific evidence doesn’t support […]
Rogel @ February 20, 2007 # One Comment
My name is Rogel and I’m an early adopter.
I like to install new applications, I love to see what they do and how cool they are - and the early in the development process the better. In practical term of course that is only means that my laptop is full of software that […]
Rogel @ February 15, 2007 # One Comment
In light of recent discussions I had about the interface between science and Ideology, or politic, I found this quote from Sergey Brin’s father ( a remarkable man by his on merit) fascinating:
So Michael became an economist for GOSPLAN, the central planning agency. “I was trying to prove that, in a few years, living standards […]