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I don’t like “like.”

כ״ט בתשרי ה׳תשע״א (Thursday 7 October 2010)

Dear Facebook friends, Please stop suggesting that I “like” something or other. Whether it’s your friend’s band or a television show you watched yesterday and enjoyed, I don’t particularly need to know that you “liked” it and, if I like it, I don’t think my other friends need to know that I did. Thanks so [...]

Ayalon

י׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״א (Saturday 18 September 2010)

Here’s a picture of the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, looking south from Arlozorov Street toward the Azrieli Towers, on Yom Kippur: Here’s the same picture, in color:

Imaginary Friends: A Parable

ב׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״א (Friday 10 September 2010)

I have an imaginary friend named Bob. He is tall, has brown hair and likes to go roller skating. One day I’m talking to Bob in the park, and someone else I recognize approaches to say that he’s also meeting Bob to hang out. Except when I ask the guy how he knows Bob, his [...]

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 [...]

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