י״ב באלול ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 22 August 2010)

iPhone: The First International Phone

י״ב באלול ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 22 August 2010)

Since moving to Israel in 2004, I’ve purchased two new mobile phones. The first was a Sony Ericsson T630 that I bought from a shop on Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda Street in early 2005. The second was a first generation iPhone that I bought in America in early 2008. My reason for buying the first phone [...]

Hebrew in Microsoft Office for Mac

י״א באלול ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 21 August 2010)

Mac users in Israel, and probably in many other countries, have long experienced befuddlement and frustration to find that the Mac version of Microsoft’s market-dominating Office suite doesn’t support right-to-left languages like Hebrew, Arabic or Farsi. Now it’s clear that even the next version, Office for Mac 2011, won’t support right-to-left languages. Over the years, [...]

Worst Movies Ever

ז׳ באלול ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 17 August 2010)

I’ve actually never seen the Siskel and Ebert show. Or rather, I never did see it while it was on television. I don’t know if that’s a weird quirk of my childhood or if it perhaps wasn’t shown on Montgomery Cable when I was growing up, but I feel a little bit left out that [...]

Baby names

כ״א באב ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 1 August 2010)

I’m not sure whether it’s because I always considered my name, Nathan, to be a little out of the ordinary for my generation (baby boom echo), but is it weird that baby names and how they’re chosen have long interested me? I came across this US government database of popular baby names by state recently, [...]