Posted in daily on Jul 19th, 2007
A lot has been going on lately:
1. I participated in an academic workshop in Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia.
2. More or less 20 hours after I returned from Serbia to Israel, I flew to Dublin, Ireland for a day of on-site interviews in Google.
3. I got married!
4. Few days before I got married, I’ve [...]
Posted in daily on Apr 11th, 2007
The picture says it all. Multitasking really slows you down. Suppose you have two tasks to do: Task A and Task B. When you perform your tasks alternately (as in the top line) you pay a big overhead cost. Each time you are resuming a task, you have to load all the information [...]
Posted in daily on Apr 8th, 2007
How I transferred my latin1 encoded wordpress blog into a perfectly working database setup with UTF8 encoding.
Posted in daily on Mar 9th, 2007
Reported by Boris.
Back in December I’ve posted about the technique I use to stop spam on phpBB forums. The following enhancement of this idea appeared today on xkcd webcomic blog:
But it would not work, because even spambots cry at that.
Posted in daily on Mar 8th, 2007
It is very common to hear stories in which criminals ask restaurant or shop owners to pay them money for the criminal’s “protection services”. Those who dare not to pay them, usually sorry for that few days after, when they find their business burning in flames.
Well, it seems that this phenomenon is now spreading in [...]
Posted in daily on Feb 22nd, 2007
It will probably be hard for you to believe, but my girlfriend discovered a DoS vulnerability in Gaim. No, don’t worry. She is not a computer geek (One in a relationship is certainly enough). The story of my girlfriend’s important discovery goes like this:
I was chatting with her some days ago using Gaim (she uses [...]
Posted in daily on Dec 23rd, 2006
Sometimes Google does strange things.
I was told today that this blog shows up on the first page of search results for the term “בלוג” (which is blog spelled in Hebrew). Here is a screenshot for the lazy disbelievers (taken on December 23, 2006):
Hmm. I thought it should be hard to get on the front [...]
Posted in daily on Dec 21st, 2006
Ok. I’m usually not posting such stupid stuff. But I couldn’t hold myself this time.
I came into my bed room where I had this bed-linen with pictures of lizards, turtles, chameleons and other creatures. Then I saw something quickly moving from the sheet to the blanket. Looks like it came to life from the [...]