Getting away I’m taking some time off, finally, in the end of September. Been busy the last couple of days thinking up stuff to do and see. I’ll start with a week in Paris (never been), then going to Oktoberfest in Munich (long time dream come true! River of beer here I come!), then to my Brother’s in Vienna, then probably move to the warmer south of France and Spain, hopefully do a trek in the Picos de Europa National Park.…

Just found a cool feature on CafePress: you can place your Google Analytics tracking code on your CafePress store. Sweet. Found under “Your Account -> Manage Shop -> Update Tracking Information”. Also, new design - Chuck Norris shirts on Bitzwear. Update: this wasn’t clear enough - before typing in the tracking code in CafePress you should create a website profile for your shop, using the “Add Website Profile” in Google Analytics and typing in the shop’s URL (e.…

Before: Best movie ever on IMDB?? Plot: Dark as Batman should be. Acting: Michael Cane, Garry Oldman and Morgan Freeman - spot on, as always. Heath Ledger - bloody good. The girl: Maggie Gyllenhaal - WTF?? Suffice to say, I’d almost prefer to have her brother Jake make out with the Joker, Brokeback-Mountain-style, then her. Only good thing is she Spoiler (rhymes with “cries”). The action: Yes! The bad guy: Oh yes!…

We’ve launched the Delver Blog at blog.delver.com (in addition to launching Delver itself, of course). From my first post there: Before launching you’re just basically throwing stones at a small target on an imaginary wall in total darkness. You don’t know what you’re doing. The best products (think the PC, the iPod, sliced bread) make perfect sense to us now, but that’s just hindsight. People who developed these products had really strong belief in what they were doing, but that belief was anything but based on facts.…

Just as when the body is fighting many diseases, a little cold can be devastating - so is when the soul is troubled by many things, anything negative can bring a person to tears. This is the image that greeted me this morning on the news channel TV while I was waiting for the elevator in my office building: It’s constantly discussed - why would we make such an unfair trade?…

To sum up the few last couple of days: (Warning: self-important farts coming up) 1 Thomas J. Watson once said: If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. That sounds about right. 2 There is no way you can really know a person, in a short period of time. By parallel, there is no way for someone else to know you.…

גוגל: מגה-פיגוע, אברהם גרנט, תחי מדינת ישראל, 6 טון חשיש, סבא סוחר סמים…

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Mentioned court decision here: http://www.robolo.co.il/7/05/03/12/Robolo_192507.asp.…