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The Five People You Meet in Web 2.0 Hell

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments · venting

38-year-old Eddie is convinced his digital life would be better upon meeting five types of people and showing them the unexpected negative impact they have on others:
The Under-Tagger – This guy would spend a week going through old video cassettes, finding the amazing CNN footage from 1983 he was looking for, but upon uploading it [...]

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What’s Wrong With the Israeli Internet Today? – A Post Using the Israeli Screen Actors Guild

March 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · venting

I have already posted an elaborate list of the top annoyances plaguing the Israeli Internet, but wherever my mouse takes me I encounter more and more prototypical examples:
Today, while preparing to reply to a recent reader’s comment in a post I wrote about Israeli actress Hadar Ratzon, I stumbled upon her private cell phone number, her [...]

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10 Freewares I Swear By But You Have Never Heard Of

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments · 100% vent free

…listed in Alphabetical order - each one tested under Windows XP:

CCleaner
Removes unused files and cleans traces of your online activities

CutePDF Writer
Easily convert any document to PDF format

Easy Video Splitter
Automatically or manually split large AVI, DivX, MPEG, WMV and ASF

JFileRecovery
Copy files from damaged hard drives, CDs, DVDs and Flash media

MailWasher
Automatically block email spam before using your [...]

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What’s Wrong With the Israeli Internet Today? - A Phlog Post Using the IDF

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments · venting

I have already posted an elaborate list of the top annoyances plaguing the Israeli Internet*, but wherever my mouse takes me I encounter more and more prototypical examples:
Let’s say you want to check out the official website of the Israeli Defense Forces. You google IDF (in Hebrew in our example), and get these results:
Oh my, you hit [...]

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