Backup of my old LiveJournal blog
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29 Oct 2006Uzi Nissan, an Israeli ex-pat living in the US for the past 30 years, has been president of Nissan Computers Inc. for the past 15. As a computer repair and consulting firm, they bought the nissan.com domain in 1994, before auto-makers even considered an internet presence. In 1999, the Nissan Motor company filed suit against […]
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29 Oct 2006Avner Kashtan : The Complete SMS Messages (reproduced in 4-point Nokia Sans, for authenticity)
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27 Oct 2006Losing your wallet or pouch is a traumatic experience. Your whole life is there, and just the thought of the staggering amounts of beaurocracy and procedure involved in recovering everything there, to speak nothing of lost phone numbers, irreplacable pictures on my camera and other intangibles. The whole process of realization is, in fact, quite similar to […]
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26 Oct 2006Been nearly a week Rain and shine, school and office. Sick of work already…
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19 Oct 2006The nice thing about listening to NPR in California is the chance to hear newsclips of the governor discussing current issues. It’s very childish, I know, to ignore anything Scharzenegger says and focus on his accent alone, but it’s just so hilarious to hear him discuss serious issues. And when he’s interviewed on a new […]
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19 Oct 2006After some back and forth, some progress was made: 1) I’m in LA, not far from the airport. Motel. 2) Car has been entrusted into the hands of janric, via the mediation of belvane. May their lines prosper and thrive. From here we’ll attempt to move it to the possession of my cousin. We’ll see. […]
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18 Oct 2006Ok, now I’m screwed. Seems that at some point in my DMV transactions, in San Francisco, the lady at the DMV kept the car title to herself rather than giving it back to me. Without the title in hand, dealers can’t buy the car from me. Getting a new title is a matter of a […]
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17 Oct 2006The shoreline Highway 1 along the Pacific ocean, from Monterey down to Los Angeles, really is as beautiful as everyone said it would be. Cliffs and beaches, the ocean itself. Great, really. But sometimes it pays off to look at the other side of the road. I find myself doing a double take, driving into the […]
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17 Oct 2006פעם היה לי לייבג'ורנל. עכשיו הוא כאן, מגובה.