Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Monday, May 15th, 2006
My DSL went down about 8:45 PM this evening. Checking their status page from my cell phones shows nothing. So I called their technical support and was suprised to hear a recorded message saying that there is an outage across most North East states (NY, NJ, MD, DC, VA, MA, ...
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Monday, May 1st, 2006
One of the pleasures of parenthood is decoding vague medical information related to yourself. Being born in the former USSR, my blood type is referenced using a number rather then a letter (A, B, AB or O). I was unabled to find a ready reference for the conversion, so instead ...
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Monday, April 24th, 2006
After a long and sleepless night I am now a father of a wonderful little girl.
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
I just put up a new website offering free searches and access to resources for those who study the traditional texts of Judaism. The site uses OPML and opml2search tool.
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
Several small updates about this site:
1. The RSS feed for this blog doesn't refresh properly resulting in items being included which have not been really refreshed. I am working on tracking down the problem.
2. Tags is still not picked up by Technorati in a timely fashion.
3. The "Halachos of Modern ...
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Friday, November 25th, 2005
Since 9 AM EST, I haven't been seeing any updated RSS feeds through Bloglines. However, their site and the blogroll services seem to be working. No clue what's going on - but if they are really having problems, it would be VERY NICE to let the world know. Of course ...
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
For quite some time I have been using the SpamAssassin installation provided by our provider to tag my business email account. However, only a few days ago did I actually set it to delete all emails that score over 10.0 server-side. Suprisengly enough, my spam volume dropped to almost a ...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2005
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins in a few hours. Happy New Year 5766 to everyone!
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Monday, October 3rd, 2005
The RFC Editor just published my very first RFC - RFC 4180.
First draft published on February 2nd of 2005, RFC published on October 3rd, 2005 - total time from initial draft to RFC publication = 8 months of which 2 months was spent getting IESG approval (until April 5th, 2005) ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
Due to my wedding tomorrow, I am temporarily stopping this blog. There are just way too many things to do.
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Thursday, June 9th, 2005
After sitting on my desk for six months, I finally got around to posting some of the old ASRG email archives. They can be found here.
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Monday, May 9th, 2005
Information Storage + Security Journal just published my article as their front page story for the second issue.
UPDATE: Considering the recent events at SYS-CON I am now regretting writing for them.
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
IANA dropped me a line today saying that they added the text/csv type to the official tree of MIME types.
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Monday, May 2nd, 2005
Here is an interesting picture I recently took on a trip. You can try to guess what it is (for an answer, click on it).
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Friday, April 22nd, 2005
I will be signing off for the next three days due to Passover holidays.
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Monday, April 11th, 2005
I got engaged this past Friday so things are kind of hectic right now. Don't expect too many posts in the next few weeks.
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Thursday, April 7th, 2005
The IESG finally approved my Internet draft on the CSV MIME type and send it over to the RFC Editor for publication.
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