י״ט בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 6 December 2009)

Ezra in a Cave

י״ט בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 6 December 2009)

I took this picture in 2001. We were in a cave and through a hole in the ceiling (ground level) light came in and illuminated just a small area. Ezra was standing in it, so I snapped this shot by reading the light meter from the lit area, but standing far back in the unlit [...]

iPhone OS 3.1.x Messed Up My Data Plan!

י״ח בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 5 December 2009)

Though I previously reported that I’d upgraded my iPhone’s firmware to 3.1.2 and that it was good, it was not actually working perfectly for me: Apple did one of their annoying moves and messed up access to cellular data plans on unlocked iPhones in OS 3.1. Consequently, I lost my connectivity when I went from [...]

Chicken Shnitzel

י״ז בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Friday 4 December 2009)

Read it and weep, people. Here I am in The Atlantic, holding forth on one of my favorite topics: chicken shnitzel. My contention is, and has been on many occasions, that chicken shnitzel is the authentic Israeli cuisine because it is the only notable dish invented by Jews in Israel that’s culturally accessible to all [...]

Skatalites

ט״ו בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Wednesday 2 December 2009)

I took this picture when the Skatalites came to Tel Aviv in September. I never thought they’d come to perform in Israel, so it was a special treat to see them play at the Barby. I was not so surprised that they put on a fantastic show, since I’d seen them also in New York [...]

Yunis

י״ד בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 1 December 2009)

I’ve always loved this picture (by the way, it’s not done with HDR). I took it in March or April 2005 at the end of a work day at the Temple Mount Antiquities Salvage Operation, an archeological excavation of material from the Temple Mount that had been dumped in 1999. The man in the picture [...]