40 days and 40 nights

this past shabbat we read the parasha mishpatim, the very last passuk of the parashah says: and moshe (moses) went up the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights. shabbat also marked exactly 40 days until our wedding.. the shabbat hatan will be the 7th shabbat starting from this one just past. The countdown begins..

great idea for a gmail feature

a "find similar" button.. that would return a list of emails that match the email you were currently viewing.. that way if i'm looking for a conversation with someone or on a particular topic and i click on the wrong one, because i can't seem to find the right one, then there should be a "find similar" button which would return the email conversations most similar to the one i'm currently looking at..

what defines "similar" is questionable.. but i trust google could do a good implementation of such a feature..

actually i wonder if this feature is patented? even implementing it on the OS level would be quite kewel .. i could see a new version of Spotlight with this feature.. .. hmm
i'm betting there are people who could tell me where and when such a feature exists/ed..

six days ago this blog turned 2 years old

crazy.. i didn't even notice.. not that i post here so often.. makes me wonder how old yitz.com is.. hmm sept. 1999 according to internic (whois).. that means the domain yitz.com is 6 and a half years old. kewel.

exploring harif

lately i've taken to eating a roll in the morning because i wasn't eating breakfast and figured i should add something, and remembered that the gemara (I happened to learn it in the hok l'yisrael so i can't quote an exact source) says that it is healthy and beneficial in a number of ways to eat bread in the morning. so, once i'm eating bread, i figured i'd have some humus with it. And, once I was picking up some humus from the local makolet, so why not pick up some schug (no idea how to spell this very harif red yemenite stuff).. lately i've been getting in touch w/ my sefaradi roots more when i found out that spicy food really does taste better (no kidding, my grandfather was right.. if u start eating spicy food everything else tastes bland afterwards.. i can't go back to just bread & hummus, the hummus tastes like butter (or somethign else mostly tasteless) without something harif to go with it).. anyways, i'm enjoying it because it makes you feel like you are fighting for your life.. challenging your body to survive every day.. yummm. Well, yesterday i kinda overdid it on the schug.. but it was still good.. then whoever it was that prepared my lunch yesterday @ burgerNet decided that i didn't have nearly enouh harif in my diet and was very generous.. for the rest of the day my stomach was threatening heartburn.. i survived :) but it's fun to find my limits... guess now I understand about people who really like harif but say it's bad for their stomache.. in the quantities i eat it, it's just really nice.. kinda the same way i consume alcohol. everything in reasonable quantities adds to the experience :)
ps. sorry for the boring post..

Once more gainfully employed

Thank God, i found another job, a really nice work environment doing exactly what it is i wanted to be doing. I'm working for Ex Libris Israel, on a three-man web-technologies division. It's really great, I get to work with all kinds of people and for a company that really treats its employees well. (compared with working in a start-up it's a different world)