Eyalder

Network Computer - Reborn

2009-11-26T13:52:00.000-08:00

I admit - I'm old enough already to remember Oracle's effort to build the Network Computer. Heck, even Sun and Big Blue were into this. And to think that years later I'd walk down Beach Park Blvd. in Foster City with my twins, watching afar on the shining, silvery towers of Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores....

I've been watching closely Google's webcast on Chrome OS. It did take a while, having the expected concerns of "can I live without my disk", or "what about graphic-rich apps", or even "how will I look without my Outlook?", and then again "can I back-office without MS-Office?"...

... and it finally hit me. Yes, it is possible, and it is making a lot of sense. Most of what I do at home and at work is on the web. I'm using Gmail, Outlook Web-Access, intranet, Wiki, Bugzilla, Google Docs, banking websites, everything has become HTTP-aware.

Moreover, my dad, who's become a more avid fan of comupters than myself, yet always looking for the best bargains for his systems, would the perfect user for what I hope will be the 2011 or 2012 incarnation of Chrome OS. A light, yet very versatile and powerful disk-less, installation-less, no-maintenance desktop, that's both cheap and wife-proof. Just power-on and get on the web.

Tengu - I'd buy one if had some spare bucks

2009-09-12T02:34:00.000-07:00

It's definitely fun, it's definitely useless.
Go and get one from: http://tengutengutengu.com/
As for myself? - I don't have spare bucks.

I'm a Relocator

2009-09-12T02:29:00.000-07:00

I just figured out that I'm a Relocator - A frequent relocator. Relocated twice and went back alive in 8 years - I guess it counts. Lived in The Netherlands and California. I'd go back to California in a second. It's truely the best place to live. I'm sure herds of Europeans would snore at me saying that, but who cares about Europeans anyway. They'd snore at anything. They developed this theory that they have the best place to live, and then they'd drink and smoke their souls out just to drift their real pain out.

Project Tuva - Interesting Physics for the Masses

2009-07-16T14:02:00.000-07:00

I just bumped into this interesting link:
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/

I like free lectures from smart people. The video quality is superb even though we're talking on a 40+ yrs old recordings.

White Pharmacy

2009-06-15T21:19:00.000-07:00

So I was walking tired on 16th Street Mall in Denver, looking at the nice shops, and all of a sudden I'm seeing this far sign saying "White Supremacy". I'm getting closer seeing that it just says: "Pharmacy".
But I know where I got it from - damn newspapers. I never buy newspapers, but on a business trip it just sounds nice to take 'em in the morning. There's nothing like free.
I was reading this article on this f*cked-up nut-case soup-nazi guy called Von Braun who was shooting in the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. The guy is 88 years old, don't they ever get tired? These guys should be put to life-long jail time full of mysery and lack of hope for their aweful crimes against humanity and all we fight for everyday.
There is no other punishment that could fit them as they are intentionally looking to hurt us, prevent our peaceful democratic way of life, derail the improving course of inter-racial mutual understand and in short - their goal is to make our life shitty.

The First Female President

2009-06-14T20:33:00.001-07:00

My current "Gig of the Day" is that my daughter will be the first female President of the U.S., and that she has legally more chance to become the President than Schwarzenegger himself!

Why am I called Eyalder?

2009-06-14T20:32:00.000-07:00

Obvious - me and my wife used to watch a lot of X-Files. Our real names are Eyal and Chely, so I figured that in a parallel universe we could have been called Scully and Mulder - or better yet - S-chelly & Eyal-der.

I hate T-Mobile

2009-06-14T20:30:00.000-07:00

So we've got this pre-paid Motorola V330 that we got for my wife back in 2005 (I'm a big believer of "no-commitment" policy when it comes to money. Yes, I am committed to my wife. I'll expand on these in the future). Unfortunately, T-Mobile locks their pre-paid phones, and we cannot use this phone out of the U.S.

Now that we've left the U.S. I entered a T-Mobile shop in Denver, they were very helpful, called T-Mobile support yada yada yada.
A day later I'm getting this on email:

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T-Mobile Sim Unlock Request
Sim Unlock Reference: 3150094
IMEI: 356495003077668

Thank you for taking the time to contact T-Mobile. We have received your SIM Unlock Request. Unfortunately, we are unable to process your request at this time. The account must have been active for 90 days and a refill within the last 30 days.

Thank You,

Sim Unlock Department
T-Mobile USA, Inc.

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Why the hell would I refill if I am out of the country???
Now I hate their guts. I hate illogical things.

I miss my twins!

2009-06-13T20:36:00.000-07:00

Aren't they cute?????

Swine Flu

2009-06-13T20:26:00.000-07:00

So far I didn't get it.

New York

2009-06-13T20:18:00.000-07:00

So I stayed this unexpected weekend in Jersey. Of all things I could do, it hit me right away - the Seinfeld Tour by Kenny "The Real" Kramer. It was fun. Here's a picture of me and Kenny in front of the famous Seinfeld restaurant.

Twitter

2009-06-13T20:17:00.000-07:00

I just don't get it.