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Hebrew in Office for Mac

י"א באלול ה'תש"ע (August 21, 2010) Computer

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, [...]

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George Steinbrenner

ב' באב ה'תש"ע (July 13, 2010) America

A Yankees fan and former New Yorker shares his thoughts on the death of George Steinbrenner.

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IB Program

כ"ב בתמוז ה'תש"ע (July 4, 2010) America

I did the International Baccalaureate program for high school and graduated with an IB diploma. The New York Times has an an article about IB and that is awesome, since I’ve spent the past 11 years surrounded by people who have no idea what the IB program is and who don’t give a damn about [...]

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10 Reasons NOT to Delete Your Facebook Account

כ"א באייר ה'תש"ע (May 5, 2010) Aliyah

If you’re in the habit of following these things, you’ve by no doubt now read Dan Yoder’s 10 Reasons to Delete Your Facebook Account. I’ve seen it posted in six or seven places in just the past few hours. Unfortunately, it makes less and less sense every time I skim it. For the following reasons [...]

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Brian Betts

י' באייר ה'תש"ע (April 24, 2010) America

What’s the lowest form of life that exists? I don’t know if middle school gym teachers are actually the lowest, but they are definitely lower than slugs (perhaps higher than single-celled organisms). Brian Betts, however, was a very stark exception. I remember him at Redland Middle School in the early 1990s as a pretty decent [...]

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FMTLVA

ט' באייר ה'תש"ע (April 23, 2010) Apartment

The website I built for my apartment search, Find My Tel Aviv Apartment, is the subject of an article in the weekend section of TheMarker (Haaretz business section) called איך מוצאים דירה בפייסבוק (How do we find an apartment on Facebook). That’s pretty cool! The Facebook line is a reference to the Facebook ads I’m [...]

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America in 140 characters or fewer

ו' באדר ה'תש"ע (February 20, 2010) America

Last month I went to visit America for a couple weeks and I recorded the entire trip on the Twitter. Here are all my tweets, from the minute my vacation began to when I got back home. Sorry they’re in reverse order – I can’t find a tool that will export them from first to [...]

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Chicken Shnitzel

י"ז בכסלו ה'תש"ע (December 4, 2009) Aliyah

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 [...]

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Yunis

י"ד בכסלו ה'תש"ע (December 1, 2009) Israel

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 [...]

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Top 10 Best-Selling LPs

כ"ג באלול ה'תשס"ט (September 12, 2009) Music

Of the top ten best-selling records of all time, I own none (but I do own the 11th). And that’s out of about 40 gigs of music. How many do you own? Do you know anybody who owns all ten? It’s my personal opinion that these ten are crap.

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