Inflation Becoming Irrelevant in Forex

Inflation data, that is published all the time is becoming less and less important in these days of a global economic crisis. It doesn't ignite price action as it used to up to the last summer.

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Drawing a line in the Facebook sand

I don’t need an email notification for every semi-automatic invite. It becomes spammy. When I invite people to some application / game in Facebook and final step looks like an email address that is about to be sent, I immediately click on “Forget it”.

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Don't be Sicko

Unfortunately, I had spent many hours this week in the hospital accompanying a friend who is hospitalized. All in all it was fine. But, the trouble is in the most important place - the emergency room. It's a zoo!...

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And Bless This Thy Holy Gay Parade

Traditionally, the annual Gay Pride Parade in Israel is held in Tel Aviv. Last year, the GLBT community asked to hold it in Jerusalem, claiming that they have the same right to march in the capital city as any other community or public sector.

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Interesting Insight of the Civil War (people thrown off buildings) in Gaza

Gaza is burning with a civil war between Fatah and Hamas militias. Tens are killed everyday.

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War in Summer 2007 - I'm getting ready

Here's the evidence: And in a more serious tone: I truly believe and I'm also very hopeful, that a war between Israel and Syria, or Israel and Hizballah will not happen this summer. I don't believe that the

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Google Feedburner Deal encourages Problogging

Google's acquisition of Feedburner, confirmed a few weeks ago, seems very reasonable for Google. A major portion of Google's revenue comes from advertising.

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Puff the Magic BBQ [Pic]

Here's a picture of my friend being a dragon. Blowing on the BBQ resulted in a large ball of fire:

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Connect to Nature and smell the Fuel

It was quite frustrating. Can't we enjoy nature anymore?

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Israeli Doctors Curing Palestinians

No, this is not a scoop. It happens on s regular basis. Shiba hospital (near Tel Aviv) takes care of Palestinian people who are sick or injured. They even have an agreement with the Shifa hospital in Gaza. It's been like this for years.

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Medicine Not Politics

We are in a pediatric critical care d... We are in a pediatric critical care department in the center of Israel; I am a physician in this department. As you can see -- more then 50 % of the patients in the department are of Arab origin.

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Olmert must resign immediately

The Winograd committee pointed a blaming finger at Israeli primer minister Ehud Olmert. The war was unmanaged. Decision making was not done in an orderly way. Going to war was done with haste. Failure. Mr. Olmert, Go Home.

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Frequent Dramatic News in Israel

The frequency of dramatic news in Israel astonishes many Westerners. Headlines that fill one day here are sufficient for a whole month in Belgium, Norway or New Zealand.. Today was a good example...

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Spotback and Picli followup

During my use of Spotback's rating tools, I had a few comments about their service. I sent them to the contact person over there. I must say that they took my comments seriously, and they were very kind.

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Photo Digg can be easily gamed

Picli.com, a new site that is the "Digg for Photos" launched recently. It aims to be a site where users can share links to photo. The site is totally immature. There are various flaws. The biggest problem is the easy "gaming" possibility. This is how I did it:

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Every Third Visitor uses Firefox

Every third visitor of this humble site used Firefox to access it. Firefox - 34%, Internet Explorer 63%. The rest goes to Netscape, Safari, Opera and others:

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Political Protest Songs - The Mixtape

Here is a mixtape of 10 favorite political protest songs. You are welcome to listen to them here or download them as one mp3 file:

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TV is bad - except Battlestar Galactica

I've already written here that television is bad for you. It's bad for me, and I prefer surfing the web than sitting idle in front of the television set.

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Television is bad for you

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Jamming against Forced Prostitution

There many ways to demonstrate. A mass jam session is surely a unique way. I attended such a demonstration on today's sunny afternoon in Tel Aviv. Hundreds of women are held against their will in central cities in Israel, and "employed" as prostitutes.

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Smokers die younger

The big warning signs on cigarette boxes have become quite scary in the past few years. Smokers are threatened of getting cancer, impotence, heart diseases, etc. This one, "Smokers die younger", caught my attention:

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When will Bubble 2.0 burst?

We are seeing the first signs of a bubble in the hi-tech industry, like in early 1999. These signs can be well seen in the vast amount of start up companies and the excellent job market.

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Are you sure you want to go there?

These are the new signs in my office that show where the men's and women's toilet are:

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A Site for all you Humus Lovers

Humus is one of the most popular dishes in the middle east, and it is known worldwide. The famous mash of chickpeas can be found in every house, although it's always better and more fresh in a Hummus bar, or a Hummus restaurant.

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