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• Code Art - like ASCII art, only sucks so much more to create....

  I have made two examples of Code Art - taking a piece of code that does something and placing the text in such a manner that it conveys the idea of the program. The reason it sucks so much more than ASCII art is two-fold: a. It is very hard to do significant Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 6:32 PM by Shahar | 7 Comments Filed under: Development, Touchy Feely Attachment(s): CumGranoSalisCodeArt.zip

• Nice article in CNet - shipping Vista

  http://news.com.com/Vistas+last+mile/2009-1016_3-6133357.html?tag=nefd.lede This is probably the first time I have seen an accurate portraiel of how shipping at Microsoft works. While the Vista process seems to be a little different than the Office one, Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 9:58 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Touchy Feely

• Office 2007 Party - Things to regret at a later date

  (Disclaimer: This post contains words, phrases and audio that may offend some people. Please hit your "back" key if you are easily offended by rude words) Last friday we had a party for the Office group. One of the things that we had there was this booth Read More... Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 3:38 PM by Shahar | 1 Comments Filed under: Touchy Feely

• Zune in hebrew.. Give me a freaking break.

  The tech sections in Israeli news-papers were full of the AMAZING news that MS has shipped a product who's name sounds just like the F-word in Hebrew. Wouldnt have minded this too much - the tech sections of Israeli newspapers are notoriously amaturish Read More... Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 7:13 PM by Shahar | 5 Comments Filed under: Touchy Feely

• Hebrew words I really miss in English..

  Generally speaking, English is much richer than Hebrew*. The number of words in English has been recently pegged at just under 1,000,000 (1 million) words - this includes "double counting" words such as dog - where, at the very least it can be a noun Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:17 AM by Shahar | 10 Comments Filed under: Touchy Feely

• What's next? Binding you to your couch during commercials? Some content providers are slowly going insane.

  http://news.com.com/Someone+has+to+pay+for+TV--but+who/2100-1041_3-6069449.html?tag=nefd.top Apparently there's a new standard that will prevent you from (get this) fast-forwarding through commercials. Worst - it will not even let you change channels. Read More... Posted Monday, May 08, 2006 9:27 AM by Shahar | 4 Comments Filed under: Touchy Feely

• What if TVs were presented like digital cameras...

  I was just thinking about this a couple of days ago. How dumb would it be if, instead of using diagonal size for TVs back in the 1930's they would have used the complete area of the TV? We can even find a funky name for it! A Squinch! Think about it. Read More... Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 1:40 PM by Shahar | 2 Comments Filed under: Touchy Feely

• I am a dad for the first time!

  Last night my wife gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Dani she was so cute that we decided to keep her! See why? :) Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 4:55 PM by Shahar | 9 Comments Filed under: Touchy Feely

• My S1 TiVo has finally been retired.

  Replaced with an S2 140h TiVo I got for free from TiVo (through their rewards program). Now I have two S2s in my network. Can transfer shows between them etc. Very nice indeed. The S1 was showing its age - it was still kind'a functioning, but the MfsFtp Read More... Posted Friday, December 23, 2005 12:01 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Touchy Feely