Archive for 2008
Tolerance
This morning I read a short article in the NY Times that got me thinking again about tolerance, “At the Intersection of Synagogue and Boardwalk, a Feud.” The author writes about the last Synagogue on Venice Beach, which is next to a store that sells tee shirts, string bikinis and undergarments; apparently there have been […]
July 16th, 2008 by alephnaught
Daedalus: Part One of Two (Star Trek: Enterprise)
Title: Daedalus: Part One of Two (Star Trek: Enterprise) Author: Dave Stern Mass Market Paperback: 344 pages Publisher: Star Trek (October 1, 2003) Language: English ISBN-10: 0743471180 ISBN-13: 978-0743471183 Another fun read, this book uses a typical Star Trek construct, the alternative universe. The neat part is the appearance of people from the past of […]
July 15th, 2008 by alephnaught
Taking a look at atomserver
I read the XML Daily Newslink, and saw the following reference: AtomServer Helps Serve Up AtomPub Taylor Cowan, O’Reilly Technical The most interesting development within the XML world of late is AtomPub. It abstracts the details (however simple they may be) of REST and provides them in a well specified protocol. Instead of writing home […]
July 15th, 2008 by alephnaught
U.S. criminal law and blogging
Just finished reading the N.Y. Times article, “At the Uneasy Intersection of Bloggers and the Law.” For those of you blogging in the US, you should read this article. It talks about a recent attempt to gather the real identities of people blogging anonymously, without their knowledge. The subpoena said that anyone disclosing information about […]
July 14th, 2008 by alephnaught
Tattoos can be kosher
Aviva pointed out an interesting article in the NY Times on Jews and tattoos, “For Some Jews, It Only Sounds Like ‘Taboo’.” Since I got my tattoo, I’ve been thinking about what effect that might have on my post-death options, so this article helped; for example: “The eight rabbinical scholars interviewed for this article, from […]
July 12th, 2008 by alephnaught
MOCA, The Grove and Buddha’s Belly
We dropped off the dog at a new dog sitter, and decided to kick around Hollywood and West Hollywood (for a change). First we drove down to MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art. We had to walk through the Pacific Design Center to get there; unfortunately the Design Center was closed. A view of the […]
July 11th, 2008 by alephnaught
Dinner at Chopan Kebab House
We really liked the two Afghan restaurants we tried in Chicago, so we went looking for some in LA. We didn’t find any initially, but Aviva turned one up near us call Chopan Kebab House, so we gave it a try. It is a hole in the wall from its looks – a natty restaurant […]
July 10th, 2008 by electricbob
Added a “Ping this!” button to posts
I was invited into the beta program for ping.fm. They provide a service that give you one place to create microblog, status and blog posts which can be directed to any of a number of social networking sites. Since I’m a member of a number of social networking sites, and since I don’t have time […]
July 9th, 2008 by alephnaught
Visit to my new dentist
I went to my new dentist today; they call themselves Couture Smiles, and my dentist is Armen Terteryan. Paula did my cleaning – she was very nice, talked a lot, and really cleaned my teeth; reasonably painless, even for a late appointment (I’d been seven months since my last cleaning). No cavities, gums are fine, […]
July 9th, 2008 by electricbob
Added Ligit search
Just added Ligit search thanks to Kaplak’s blog. Ligit indexes and searches content that you create and link to; you indicate what you want indexed and Ligit goes and does it. When done, you get a widget you can add to your web site or blog (in my case its WordPress script code you can […]
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+Bob Hays
- I'm a father and husband, have two schipperkes, like to read, compose music, travel. And I manage a couple software development teams at DIRECTV.
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July 20th, 2008 by alephnaught