Scott’s latest post reminded me that I have a Google GuestMap too.
So go sign in to my GuestMap and let me know who you are (and where you’re located 
)…
You can also read the map’s GuestBook without watching a map…
Bill Gates already wasn’t a fan of Apple’s commercials, so I wonder what he’ll think about the the latest installment where Apple makes fun of Vista’s User Account Control pop-ups.
It just so happens, that the commercial debut comes as Gates appears at the RSA security conference in San Francisco…
I accidental came across the link to http://www.codeoasis.com/ when it was displayed as part of a blogger’s description in bloggers wepart at http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/.
This text from the site made me smile:
These highly capable, extremely motivated individuals have chosen to lead a different life-style than that of the recent frantic years of the high-tech industry. They chose to live in the desert - allowing them to give the right attention to every line of code, while maintaining a healthy work-load.
Living in the desert and dedicating yourself to code… sounds like the geek version of monk orders doesn’t it?
But if I can be serious for a moment, these guy’s portfolio page looks pretty good and its actually nice to see some new companies with a different philosophy than what we’re all used to…
When I think of it, its not much different than Palo Alto where high-tech companies can’t build tall buildings and they’re all spreaded around in many buildings surrounded by trees etc.
I’d rather Palo Alto over the Israeli desert though
Channel 10 (Israel) just showed Nimrod Harel’s magic show where a guy apparently caught a bullet shot at him by some model with his teeth. The show ended with screen display saying the bullet catch is a very secret trick that requires special physical skills known only to very few…
Special physical skills known only to few?! Maybe that can fool the model that had to do the shooting in the show…
These guys really have to try harder because just Googling for “bullet catch” takes you to sites that explains the link.
Even wikipedia has this an entry with explanation and history of this trick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_catch
Nevertheless, don’t try to follow up on this post at home!
Only those who posses special secret typing skills and vast knowledge of the world’s web of information may attempt this dangerous task…
There has been a lot of tagging around the blogsphere lately and I’m glad it didn’t skip me
(because it means someone actually reads this blog ).
Anyway, I’ve been tagged by Eran so here’s 5 things you probably didn’t know about me:
1. Like Eran, I have never actually completed any formal degree. I’ve been studying at the open university since high school and I’ve got about 4 classes to take to finish a CS degree but I haven’t been able to pass courses since I joined SAP. Hopefully I’ll be able to get some academic work done on 2007 
2. I’m the youngest person at work. I’m the youngest in the whole Duet team (probably not just at the location in Israel) and maybe in the entire lab in Israel (I’ve been at SAP for 2 years now and have yet to encounter anyone younger so that makes me pretty sure…). I’ll be 25 on February 27th by the way…
3. I’m, a Monty Python addict. I know all the sketches and I’ve got most of the “flying circus” episodes on my HD. I wanted to go to Spamalot at Broadway but I was too late and couldn’t get any tickets.
4. Although currently working at SAP on enterprise software (and liking it), I’ve always wanted to work in the gaming industry (which pretty much doesn’t exist in Israel). I do hope I’ll be able to fulfill this dream (or should I say, Goal) someday…
5. After the army I took a bartender class. I even had some gigs as a bar tender. My home contains amounts of alcohol that could stock up a small bar. I don’t tend to drink much at home but it is nice to have all the materials available if I ever feel an urge for a cocktail… I’m also fond of cooking and I think the two relates.
The thought of creating food\drinks by mixing ingredients, spices etc…. Its art
Now on to passing the torch to 5 more bloggers:
I can’t think of anyone else to tag so I’ll stick with these 4. Anyway, if you haven’t been tagged and reading this post makes you feel like writing 5 ridiculous bullets about yourself consider yourself tagged!
Have a happy 2007 everyone!
Its been quite around here for a while but now I’m back!
India was great, California and New York were awesome and now I’m back at Israel with lots of new ideas and stuff to write about so expect some interesting posts on 2007
If anyone is interested in photos from my trip around the wold you can check out my Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ekampf/
I decided to move my entire photos archive to Flickr so I got a pro account account and started uploading.
After almost 3 days of continuous uploading I’ve got most of my stuff, including all the photos from my trip to New Zeland up there so check it out…
I was just exploring the new Google Trends and I found some interesting search pattern.
“With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched for on Google over time. Google Trends also displays how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and which geographic regions have searched for them most often.”
First, I decided to compare different programming environments and see which one is the “trendiest” (Google Trends: Java, .NET and ABAP):
This clearly shows that Java a lot “trendier” than .NET. It also shows no one uses ABAP
It also shows that India is way ahead the other countries which shows, in my opinion, the power of the software industry in India.
On the same note, I decided to drill down into the specific technologies and\or languages in the .NET environments and see what results I’ll get there (Google Trends: .net, asp.net, C#, vb.net):
Again, India is way ahead the other countries. We can also see that C# is more popular that VB.NET.
And to conclude, I decided to check which one of the world’s top software factories has the most hype on the net (Google Trends: Microsoft, Oracle, Google, SAP, IBM):
Google is by far the “trendiest” company on the net and I can’t say its a surprise. I wonder what makes SAP so strong in India compared to other countries…
I found this very neat site for generating Technorati tags (as well as Flickr and Del.icio.us tags):
http://www.egmstrategy.com/ice/technorati-tag-generator.cfm
According to CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/03/pf/pay_hike_jobseeker/index.htm?cnn=yes
Guess I’m in the right job
One picture is worth a thousand words:
“Kitty” is a street cat I’ve recently adopted.
He was also chosen to test Flickr’s blogging ability and become the subject for the first-ever post from Flickr
Manual Update:
Apperantly Flickr does not set the Post’s title correctly (this was originally posted by Flickr without a title and fixed by me)
and does not support categories 
After hearing a lot of the buzz around Flickr I decided to open my own gallery and try it out.
Having an online web storage for photos could prove useful on my trip to New Zealand…
You can find my gallery at http://www.flickr.com/photos/93825643@N00/
Since both Flickr and dasBlog support the Blogger API, I can blog directly from Flickr which could be a useful feature…
I’ve noticed on Dror’s blog that there’s a new skype out there.
According to the web site it was actually released on January 5th.
Anyway, I’ve installed the new skype and you can now contact me:
Note to self: I should buy a Microphone and\or an Internet Camera already…
One of my goals for 2006 (full list on a future post) was to read more books and especially ones that do not directly relate to my work (meaning that books about programming and software development do not count). So here’s a list of what I plan to read on the next 1-3 months:
