Posts Tagged ‘ Politics ’

Messing with OpenStreetMap

Some people might not see the reason for a project like OpenStreetMap when there are plenty of good mapping products and services laying around. I am not one of them. Whenever I use a GPS, I think quite a bit about it’s inner workings. How does it figure out which route is best? How does [ READ MORE ]

Languages, platforms, paradigms and speed

Ever since the latest round of Ruby benchmarks came out and everyone got all excited, I got to thinking about the overall discussion about languages and the interpreted vs. compiled debate. To be fair, there will always be those who take a specific side for some small-but-important-to-them reason yet this has not stopped so many [ READ MORE ]

Back from the Saligman Israel Trip

Just got back today from two weeks in Israel with the 8th grade from Saligman. Such a great trip and I’m struggling to get the last of the photos online but, in the meantime, here is a little something. On the flight back, I casually asked the El Al flight attendant on our Boeing 777 [ READ MORE ]

New startup page

After having Slashdot as my browser’s startup page for over 8 years now, I am switching to having Google Reader now displayed by default. I do this primarily because I am very annoyed by the changes Slashdot has made recently as it seems to be attempting to make itself more “Web 2.0″. When I hit [ READ MORE ]

Starting my own Israeli political party

I’ve decided that, in honor of the Israeli elections, I’m going to start my own political party. The one rule: nothing you say can be understandable. Basically, it’ll fit in pretty well with the others. This new party will be headed by none other than Dror Avraham. [ READ MORE ]

The DTV transition would happen as scheduled if it wasn’t for those meddling congresspeople

Sadly, the DTV transition has been delayed until the summer. Grumble. [ READ MORE ]

DTV transition will not be delayed!

Here’s one for getting it over with. It seems that the bill before the house (looks like H.R. 339) proposing that the DTV transition will be delayed has failed to pass. Hat tip to Slashdot. The magic begins on Feb 17th! [ READ MORE ]

Bet on the future

Post over at TechCrunch reveals the launch of a startup called Nostradomical which encourages users to vote on future events. This newcomer is In good company with other companies like HubDub, Predictify, NewsFutures, The Foresight Institute and Intrade. Interestingly enough, Intrade allows you to bet real money for real returns while Predictify only gives cash [ READ MORE ]

Whole-currency-unit coins are good stuff

The other day, I received four dollar coins as change from a vending machine. I forgot how much I love them! In fact, during my last visit to Canada a few years ago, I recall being quite smitten with the utility of the loonie, toonie and friends. Naturally, I am equally fond of the shekel [ READ MORE ]

Finally, Debian Lenny to be released as stable!

Question: Can I have stable Lenny yet? Answer: Yes. Yes, I can. Saw this article (hat tip to Mukidohime)which pointed me to this email telling me that the kernel firmware resolution was finally voted on and Debian Lenny is now free to be released! It’s a good thing and I’m very excited for the goodies which will [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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