tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068Fri, 08 May 2009 20:02:38 +0000Random thoughts on random topicshttp://www.essas.com/blog/jessas@gmail.com (Joseph)Blogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-699053539272195532Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:00:00 +00002009-03-12T16:11:11.595-07:00One of the most amazing features of digital revolution of the last 20 years - is immediate access to information. Over the years we got our information faster and faster: FAX, BBS, Email, SMS, Google, iPhone, Facebook, Tweeter.Every iteration not only it gets faster, but it also makes us think less before we are trying to retrieve it and produces some element of expectation of instant http://www.essas.com/blog/2009/03/patience-and-new-world.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-4463690784889999176Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:46:00 +00002009-01-06T23:27:30.369-08:00exchangeos xmacentourageI've been using Apple Macs for years, and the only challenge I've experienced in the work place - is a proper email and calendaring client, that would play nice with Exchange Server. I used Mail, Entourage, Thunderbird, Outlook on Parallels (too slow) ... what not.I joined eHarmony in April 2008, and decided to stick with Entourage. After all, new version 2008 just came out, and it seems that http://www.essas.com/blog/2009/01/entourage-and-exchange-server.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-2716407205201254721Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:37:00 +00002007-12-10T14:49:23.945-08:00Several friends reminded me of 25th anniversary for Commodore 64. That brought a whole bunch of nostalgic memories. Endless evenings I spent in our apartment in Israel with that beige box (and later with C128) - learning BASIC, assembler, CP/M, copying games code from magazines, writing my own first program - converting lunar calendar dates into solar... My parents found it hard to understand - http://www.essas.com/blog/2007/12/commodore-64.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-938609178259714587Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:05:00 +00002007-10-16T11:18:04.983-07:00Since early last week, every time I access Google from home - it only shows up in Japanese. I'm sure it's some kind of fancy IP geo-recognition software that for some reason assumes that my Time Warner Cable IP is in Japan.However, what I'm absolutely annoyed about, is that there is no way (at least I didn't find it yet) for me to switch back to English. Every request to http://www.google.com - http://www.essas.com/blog/2007/10/google-in-japanese.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-5236929910147292307Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:08:00 +00002007-10-08T13:15:52.203-07:00I've heard many buzzwords in my life, but over last 10 years I couldn't point my finger at what exactly bothers me. I still can't - however, at this point I'm convinced that any company that uses too many of these words - has no idea what they are doing, and lost (if ever had) its direction:agileend-to-endscalablesolutionecosystemmonetizationdecisioningparadigmnext-generationleverageframeworkA http://www.essas.com/blog/2007/10/buzzwords.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-3021238366121255001Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:39:00 +00002007-06-18T16:48:59.311-07:00If I would ask you: which is the most innovative company in the world? I think majority would reply: Apple.It is pretty fascinating how Apple turned around from being a sort-of-cool-but-nobody-cares to de-facto standard of innovation in recent years.Clearly, major part of it is Steve Jobs, and his marketing skills. I always was of the opinion that it does not make much difference if you have the http://www.essas.com/blog/2007/06/apple-and-innovation.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-2361739788940250370Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:38:00 +00002007-06-13T22:52:29.410-07:00This has been bothering me for a while, but today I got really annoyed. What is wrong with US airport security checks? Here are some really illogical behaviors:- You can 't bring a bottle of water in your carry on luggage. But you can put it in your pants pocket, and nobody will know, since metal detection machine obviously does not recognize water.- Why can't you bring water in the first place?http://www.essas.com/blog/2007/06/airport-security-in-us.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-7202102441263128568Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:15:00 +00002007-04-26T11:30:00.249-07:00Over the last couple of years there has been tremendous push to present information in visually appealing way. All new technologies like AJAX, Flash, WEB 2.0 web services etc, are all trying to address this in various forms. I think Google was really an early adopter of this trend, despite that Search is purely text based. AdWords was brilliant in a way it allowed advertisers to manage their http://www.essas.com/blog/2007/04/visualization-of-information-new-web.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-116378972403924297Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:47:00 +00002006-11-17T10:55:24.046-08:00 DSC_0044 Originally uploaded by guzeppe. For the last several years, we've been taking RV trips to different places in California. This year we took a trip to Yosemite National Park.It's been really great experience to expose the kids to the nature in the summer, and RV provides an excellent way to travel for many hours.http://www.essas.com/blog/2006/11/yosemite-in-summer-2006.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-116358022938693172Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:43:00 +00002006-11-15T00:45:30.706-08:00 http://www.essas.com/blog/2006/11/slideshows-online-new-wave-of-online.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-114618395494513283Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:21:00 +00002006-08-21T12:41:59.226-07:00We took the kids to Disneyland last week. It was a little crowded, but we had a great time.<!-- Start of Flickr Badge -->#flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;}#flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;}#flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;}.flickr_badge_image {http://www.essas.com/blog/2006/04/we-took-kids-to-disneyland-last-week.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-114248772955053453Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:35:00 +00002006-04-03T16:11:15.516-07:00This story is everywhere. A guy's Gmail account got mysteriously deleted from Google servers. He says he had CRUCIAL data in that account and no backups. Many people, including Jeremy are making fun of the poor soul, but I just wonder - if you have an email account with a big company like Google (or Yahoo, or Microsoft) - it is pretty reasonable to expect them to do backups of your data. When washttp://www.essas.com/blog/2006/03/gmail-account-got-deleted.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-114232060137771309Tue, 14 Mar 2006 05:45:00 +00002006-08-21T12:43:24.933-07:00I was wondering - why would Yahoo have many different news sites. The other night I was trying to check basketball scores - usually I just go to sports.yahoo.com. This time however I clicked on News link from Yahoo Homepage. On the news site, I found the Sports section - but as I clicked on it - i was taken to a Sports section of the news site - as oppose to sports.yahoo.com. The content was veryhttp://www.essas.com/blog/2006/03/yahoo-news-sites.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-114185539356675643Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:54:00 +00002006-05-07T17:40:57.896-07:00I got sick of listening to my iPOD through FM connector. The quality is really poor, constant interference, I'm sure I'm not alone.So I was very excited when I read about Acura Music Link iPOD adapter. After trying to research it online, without much success, (I guess not many people out there use it), I gave up and made my way into Acura dealership.Some number of years ago, I would just buy and http://www.essas.com/blog/2006/03/acura-music-link-ipod-adapter-review.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-110923223232006465Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:03:00 +00002005-02-24T00:18:27.893-08:00Just added some new advertisement service today. Will see how it will monetize over time.http://www.essas.com/blog/2005/02/added-new-advertisement.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-108003224486473004Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:57:00 +00002006-03-15T15:46:05.653-08:00Apparantely, there are still some journalists who actually stand with Israel on security issues, and in particular on its hunt for terrorism, which usually condemned by the whole world, but perfectly OK for US and Britainhttp://www.canoe.ca/.../392141.htmlhttp://www.essas.com/blog/2004/03/there-are-some-honest-journalists-out.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-107602141957371112Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:50:00 +00002004-02-05T15:01:41.360-08:00http://www.essas.com/blog/joseph-blog.xmlhttp://www.essas.com/blog/2004/02/better-formatting-and-rss-feed.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437068.post-107602123265189468Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:47:00 +00002004-02-05T14:49:34.483-08:00I'll try to find more time to write something downhttp://www.essas.com/blog/2004/02/ill-try-to-find-more-time-to-write.htmljessas@gmail.com (Joseph)0