Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Das Mensch als Industriepalast – Animated

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

I have the poster of "Das Mensch als Industriepalat" created by Fritz Kahn in 1926 hanging in my office for several years now. I can never get enough of looking at the tiny details and amazing vision of this. Today I was exposed to an amazing work done to create ...

Or even worse

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Funny quote from a Ruby on Rails installation guide: "Incase you have problem installing using this command because you are currently on the plane or in the desert waging war against terror or may be worse behind a restrictive corporate proxy server, you need to download the gem files and install ...

iPhones, Faxes and BPM

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Last week theĀ Apple iPhone finally made "ali'yah" and is now available for sell in Israel. Of course, all the early adopters already had iPhones they brought from overseas, but that's besides the point. The point is that all the banks, newspapers and media channels are stampeding to get an "iPhone ...

Desktop? Why?

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

So, the Hard-disk on my SAP laptop died. For the third time in 6 months. I have a small suspicion that the Good Ole' T42 is about to reach the big scrapyard in the sky, but with the current offerings from our IT department, I'll stick to my IBM workhorse ...

In 30 years

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Amazing photo gallery by Patrick Borland, of decayed machines in the Cokatoo Islands shipyard(?) should give you a perspective of how whatever you are doing now will look in 30 years. Will it even have an aesthetic value by then?