Archive for the ‘English’ Category

The Mars Volta Are Coming To Israel!

I can’t believe it… not too long ago I wrote that this was going to be a great year for me in music, partly because of a new album by The Mars Volta (which is already out and is great, by the way) and now it’s even a greater year because The Mars Volta are [...]

Dindy Is Now Open Source

Dindy’s decline in user base and my lack of time to invest in it prompted me to make it an open source project. Dindy is now hosted on GitHub where anyone can fork it and make their own versions, including all the features I refused to add such as a whitelist and a blacklist.

Stack Overflow Careers 2.0 Inivitations

I have 5 invitations to Stack Overflow Careers 2.0. If you are: interested in an invitation a friend of mine actually planning to use this service!! send me an email and I’ll invite you.

Google App Engine Shortcomings

I’ve been writing some Google App Engine code lately and while the framework is very compelling and has many great features (e.g. task queues) it also has its shortcomings. The ones that bother me most are: No shared memory among instances. I even wrote a StackOverflow question about it to see whether I was missing [...]

Happy Birthday To Me. I’m 35

Wow. 35. This age comes with some serious what-am-I-doing-with-my-life kind of thoughts. Being unemployed, single and living with a cat at that age is hardly normative (at least in Israel) and despite being very content with the current situation it’s hard not to ponder other life choices. In any case, it’s time for the yearly [...]

Followup Dindy Update

A week after the previous update, I started getting crash reports on the Android developer dashboard. The core reason for the crashes was that I started building Dindy against a newer Android platform version. As a result, a compatibility hack related to how services are started stopped doing its work and Dindy started crashing. To [...]

It’s Going To Be A Great Year, Music-Wise Anyway

Two good things have happened in the past week, music-wise: The Prodigy have announced their 3rd Warrior’s Dance Festival to be held in Belgrade, Serbia September 15th. I already booked a VIP ticket to the show. Woohoo! If you want to come along, let me know :) The Mars Volta announced their 6th studio album, [...]

Dindy Got An Update

After a year of not updating Dindy and mainly apologizing to users from time to time because Dindy doesn’t work on their phones, I finally updated Dindy. The trigger was a change made in Locale, which Dindy supports. Sadly enough, I’m pretty sure it will still won’t work on many phones. I still haven’t managed [...]

Thomson Cable Modem Drivers And Manuals

Here are USB drivers and manuals for Thomson’s cable modem and gateway products. The manuals and driver in the zip file are for the following models: DCM325 DCM425 DCW725 DHG520 DHG525 TCM420 TCM425 TCW710 The manuals are in these languages: English French Swedish German Hebrew Dutch (the file name is Netherlands) Polish Portuguese Spanish These [...]

Idea: Online Identity Score

A friend of mine wanted to start using eBay, both as a buyer and as a seller. After just a few days her account was permanently suspended, with no option to ever return to eBay. The reason appears to be some mix-up with PayPal. I’m saying “appears to be” because eBay doesn’t tell you why [...]