A Peek into a Mind

Been on the Israeli SIGGRAPH chapter yesterday, in Tel Aviv university. Raanan had a presentation of his Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression paper (which will be published at SIGGRAPH 2002). Personally, I thought most other presentations less interesting. Ho well.
I’m stucked with the Data Structure exercise I had to submit on Thursday. Of […]

Ok, seems I got to apologize and correct myself over previous statement. First, I do not have anything against europeans personally. I’ve traveled in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Holland, England and Ireland, mostly having a great time meeting really nice people which were either excited to hear I’m from Israel, or didn’t care at all. […]

One of my favorite authors is Roger Zelazny. He wrote my all-time favorite series of Amber, and few other books as well (Lord Demon, Donerjack). Yesterday night I’ve started reading the fisrt Amber five again, and decided to have a page on my site with interesting links and stuff about his work. It will start […]

Ok, I’ll just fill you up on some of the past week happenings. First, wednesday was Israel’s 54 Independence Day which we celebrated, as costumed in Israel, with doing a bar-b-q party. We gathered most of the extended family (my grandma, the 3 sisters of my mother and one of the borthers, along with […]

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– The game is over, Maccabi Tel Aviv has won with over 30 points advantage over TAU (spain). Our guys played really well, Beshok and Parker were the best […]

Yea, it’s the weekend, Yonit and me are here in university. Yonit study for her lab exam due on sunday, and I try to finish the data structure programing exercise. The coming week is going to be pretty easy, since we’l only study on sunday and monday. Tuesday is Yom haZikaron (IDF Soldiers Remembrance […]

Net surveys. what do they say about me?

Do you really need the approval of a person in order to use his picture for your own benefit? Yes you do.
Seems I’m not alone in finding my pictures posted around without my permission. Meg from not.so.soft found her passport picture on an advert in a newspaper. Read her story and comments. I mean, […]

It is the Holocaust Memorial Day today in Israel. It started yesterday’s evening with the traditional official ceremony in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, and continues today, when a siren was herd at 10:00am through out the country and each place had a local ceremony. We had one in the Givat Ram Campus (the Nature Sciences […]

I’m ded tierd today, got up really early and almost fell asleep in the lab while waiting for my first lecture to start. I’m really not concentrated today, so far, tough I think it started yesterday. The Radio is on and there are some boring announcements from the Knesset (israeli parlament). Anyway, I’ll be […]