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Verizon DSL Outages Across the Eastern States

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, ...

Blood Types in the Former USSR

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 ...

It’s a Girl!

Monday, April 24th, 2006

After a long and sleepless night I am now a father of a wonderful little girl.

TorahTexts.org Launched

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.

Site Updates

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 ...

Bloglines Down?

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 ...

SpamAssassin and My Spam Volume

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 ...

Happy New Year!

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins in a few hours. Happy New Year 5766 to everyone!

My First RFC

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) ...

Blogging Temporarily Suspended

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

Due to my wedding tomorrow, I am temporarily stopping this blog. There are just way too many things to do.

Old ASRG Archives

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.

Another Article Published

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.

My CSV Mime Type Is Now Official

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.

An Interesting Picture

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).

Happy Passover!

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

I will be signing off for the next three days due to Passover holidays.

Engaged!

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.

My First RFC (Almost)

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.