RT @JeremyJHardy: “Israel allows some builidng materials into Gaza, stung by accusation that they are anti-cementic.” 🙂
Jun 26 2009
Dana, Asen And Alan Pop Round
The same day (26th June) Anna experimented with non-conformist sleeping, Dana, Asen and their son Alan popped over, as they were visiting Kazakhstan before returning to Israel. By the time I remembered to grab the camera, Alan was already having a nap, so you’ll “just” have to make do with Dana and Anna in this shot.
Dana And Anna - Only Three Keys Required!
Jun 03 2009
Lost And Found
I had thought that the cracked screen on my main phone would mean at least the loss of access to the data on there, as well as the more obvious inconvenience of losing the use of the phone for audio communications, internet access on the move, the GPS and the camera for tweets etc.
The main reason for my thinking this was that I was unable to enter the PIN when turning the phone on, and didn’t want to stab at the screen randomly, in case I ended up locking myself out completely. See below for a shot of how my phone normally looks, and then how it now looks. See the ‘Should Have Dug‘ post for info on how the screen was smashed.
How It Should Look
What It Actually Looks Like
However, I finally remembered I had a keyboard built into the phone 
Using this method of input, I was able to get the phone to the point where I could happily remote in and use a window on the PC as the phone’s visual output. I’ve also backed up and synced all the updated contacts and calendar events, so should I not be able to replace the screen sometime, I’ve not lost all the data. Apart from a few open files, all the data from the phone’s memory is also now residing on one of the hard drives here.
So… that is one lost and found (phone data), onto the next – Anna’s photos. Whilst waiting for some downloads last night, I searched through Ira’s laptop and found quite a few photos from our camera that I had not also backed up on my hard drives. This means that over the coming weeks there will be fresh photos of Anna for family and friends back in Britain (and Israel, Australia, America, over here in Kazakhstan), and Germany can see how Anna has been growing since the last batch of photos.
Finally, I need to check why the Xbox posts are not appearing in a timely manner, and when they do arrive, sometimes out of order. For now, I’m just manually adjusting the time stamps accordingly.
xbox not picking up posts
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Mar 13 2008
Shas Party’s MP Lost The Plot
OK, if the country you lived in had an unusually high level of tremors and earthquakes, what would you do? Study, or at least consult experts in the field of plate tectonics? Consider moving further away from fault lines? Look at what the construction industry can do to minimize risk to human inhabitants of their buildings?
Well, Shlomo Benizri took a different route in his logic. According to his addled brain, the quakes have been caused by gay people in Israel, or more specifically the fact that the Knesset had continued to pass laws giving protection and equal rights to those who chose same gender relationships.
Head on over to here for the article. I really hope that as we slowly stutter into the 21st Century, that such ignorant, deluded and partially brain dead wuck fits will become a smaller and smaller percentage of the population, or at least not find themselves with the privilege of being paid to spout such crap in a public forum.
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Jul 23 2007
Pleasantly Surprised – Israeli Arab Textbook
I was trying to catch up on the news from the past week, when I ran across a BBC article that grabbed my interest.
Apparently the Education ministry has approved a textbook (for the first time) to be used in Arab schools within Israel that presents a slightly more balanced way than any previous attempts.
Rather than simply stating the events surrounding the 1948 creation of the state of Israel from the viewpoint of Jews, it mentions that Palestinian Arabs were not happy at all at their land being taken away, and people being expelled. Of course right wing politicians in Israel have complained, but hopefully people will ignore them, rather than get behind their chest thumping…
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