Off to the USA for a week or so of holiday and visiting.

See you all online when I get back.

By the rivers of Bbylon - there we sat and also wept when we remembered Zion. On the willows within we hung our lyres. For there our captors requested words of song from us, with lyres joyous, 'Sing for from Zion's song!" How can we sing the song of G-d upon the alien's soil" If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. Let my toung adhere to my palate if I fail recall you, if I fail to elevate Jerusalem above my foremost joy. Remember, G-d, for the offspring of Ed

I'm having a strange time, I posted something to my other blog that did not have the result that I wanted. I have been acused of being against peace and being a rasist because I hate Hamas et al. I wouldn't care about this per se but for the fact it was 2 very old friends who I had this fight with.

L'Shana Tova... May you be inscribed in the book of life for a good year.

And there is a Jewish tradition of opening the new year (now a few days old) with a clean slate, so if I have offended anyone here in the last year I would ask you to forgive me for it.

Well Its offical on monday I asked Devora to marry me. She said yes. So we will be getting married on August 1 in New York. (date subject to change) THe two of us along with her 2 girls will be living on the same Yishuv (Settlement) that she lives on now.

I've not been around much so I thought I would give an update to my friends here on slashdot. First of all You can now find me on Live Journal.

Major news from my life:

1) I found a great woman, looks very promissing.

2) I moved I'm still in the Katamon section of Jerusalem but a few blocks over. Nice place, good room mate. The Landlords are crazy Chabadniks. And the bus service is not as good as at the old place.

I'm starting to work as a free lance perl programer. If anyone needs a perl guru, or the like please let me know. Or if anyone has any tips on good places to look for jobs online etc that would be great too.

Oh if you need someone for midnight to 8:00 am I can do that too, if you don't mind the fact that I would be remote. I am 7-10 hours ahead of most of the USA so it is no problem. I charge very reasonable rates.

My cat Tigger ran away a month ago, and I felt like I had lost my best friend. I got him as a small kitten, and have had him for about 5 years. He has lived with me in at least 5 different appartments and even came from the USA to Israel with me. After a month I had more or less given up hope of finding him. But thank G-d, my flat mate found him walking home from morning minyan today.

I have an iBook and I was wondering if anyone knows of a linux version that I can put on a CD and run from time to time that way on my iBook.

Thanks

I've been attacked by the Slashdot idiot squad. After all Saddam was a nice dictator and GW Bush is the source of all evil in the world.

Oh and for the record, I'm 30, live in Jerusalem and studied physics.

Bashar Assad is probably realizing he is up shit creak about
now. Lets be honest dictators are out of fashion these days, and
those that train terrorists even more so. It is common knowledge that
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, Hizballah et al are based in Syria
and Syrian-occupied Lebanon, and funding is channeled threw Syria
from Iran to these groups.

I don't have much time, as Yom Kippor starts soon, but our air force has responeded to yesterday's bomb in Haifa. The Israeli air force has destroyed a Islamic Jihad training base in Syria.

Fast starts in just over an hour. I will write more tomrow night.

Another day another bomb in Israel. After Shabbat ended and I logged onto my computer I saw the news, 20 dead in a resturant in Haifa. It may be more, who knows. The great Irony is that the resturant was owned by Arabs, who were probably decent folks just trying to make a living. But Hamas and the other murderers don't care, they just want to kill and to maim and to inspire fear. 3 of the dead may be children.

To all my friends (and everyone else here) i would like to wish you a L'Shana Tovah, Happy New Year, Rush Hashana 5764.

I will be offline from now to sunday night.

Jerusalem is rather large city. We have about 600,000 people here but it seems like a very small town. It seems that everywhere I go I seem to run into people I know. And I've only been here a month. I was leaving the Kotel (western wall) last night and as i was leaving on the number #1 I saw a friend out the window. I was litterally in the middle of saying how often I run into people I know when I saw her. The only problem was the bus was pulling out so I didn't have time to get her contact