Al Ha VeDa על הא ודא

Out of here

2004-12-13T14:15:00.000+02:00

OK, the move is complete. This blog will continue at http://smontagu.org/blog/. You should be redirected there in 15 seconds.

RSS Changes III

2004-12-13T11:12:00.000+02:00

Holy crap, it is just as I feared. The RSS feed has changed its name yet again to http://mountainsmog.blogspot.com/rss/mountainsmog.xml. So anyone reading me by RSS will never know when the blog moves (which will be extremely soon — I'm fed up with this). Goodbye, dear readers, it was nice knowing you.

Kubanga okusaasira kwe kwa luberera

2004-12-12T23:20:00.000+02:00

That's כִּי לְעוֹלָם חַסְדּוֹ, the refrain of Psalm 136 in Luganda, as sung by the Abayudaya community of Uganda. (Thanks to Danya (Jerusalem Syndrome) posting at JewSchool, via Rachel (Velveteen Rabbi)). I have to get this disc!

Almost done

2004-12-12T23:10:00.000+02:00

I finished the first draft of the book proposal I'm translating today. I'm glad it's being translated, because it's something I'd love to read, and I would never fight my way all through it in Hebrew. This blog will be moving soon, since Dreamhost has started offering WordPress as part of the service.

Some news stories

2004-11-10T01:50:00.000+02:00

July 15th, 2003: America Online on Tuesday said it has laid off 50 employees involved in Web browser development at its Netscape Communications subsidiary amid a reorganization of its Mozilla open-source browser team … The layoffs come as the loose Mozilla.org group, which had overseen the open-source development efforts of the Mozilla browser, transforms itself into a nonprofit foundation.

Water from the wells of salvation

2004-11-08T01:54:00.000+02:00

I wasn't going to blog about the US election, but this was just too interesting to pass by. First of all, correlating county-by-county election returns with geographical data from the Tiger database is just so superbly geeky. Secondly, it struck me that there's a very strong correlation between voting Democrat and living near large bodies of water. Look how the blue clusters along the Pacific

Making myself useful

2004-11-02T01:55:00.000+02:00

It's good that the remnants of a classical education that I carry around with me sometimes come in useful for me and other people. My ever loving wife is winding up her M.A. thesis on Eve and Mary in Irenæus of Lyons, and it's my privilege to help her as computer and language dogsbody, looking up references on the internet, translating parts of the Latin text (the only complete version extant)

Stopgap Post

2004-10-24T01:48:00.000+02:00

I haven't been getting to the blog lately. I'm gainfully employed again (contracting for the Hebrew Competence Group at IBM until the end of the year, with hopes for renewal of the contract for a longer period) and when I get home and finish checking email, reading other people's blogs, and hacking here and there on Mozilla, I don't seem to have time and energy left to write, not to mention work

I can't believe I did this

2004-10-13T23:18:00.000+02:00

Well, it should at least increase my geek credibility

Two Rebbetzins

2004-10-03T08:26:00.000+02:00

Welcome Renegade Rebbetzin, a rising star in the blogosphere, and talking of rebbetzins, check out an article in Ha'aretz about an old friend of mine, Amichai Lau-Lavi.

RSS Changes II

2004-09-30T21:15:00.000+02:00

I emailed Blogger support and they changed the RSS feed URI manually back to http://mountainsmog.blogspot.com/rss/MountainSmog.xml. The problem is that my element, which uses a <$BlogSiteFeedURL$> tag (following their instructions) still points to http://mountainsmog.blogspot.com/rss/mountainsmog.xml, and I strongly suspect, without daring to make the experiment, that if I make any other

Quid "ille" significat

2004-09-28T22:52:00.000+02:00

Thanks to Talmida for the pointer to Speculative Grammarian, which I think is the best online linguistics magazine ever. My favourite article so far: "The Original Language of Winnie-the-Pooh".

Hebrew Haikus

2004-09-27T23:48:00.000+02:00

I couldn't resist this challenge on a mailing list I subscribe to. As someone pointed out there, a haiku should be about nature or seasons, otherwise it's a senryu. אֲסַפֵּר לִבְנִיעַל יְצִיאַת מִצְרָיִםבְּחוֹדֶשׁ אָבִיב פָּך שֶׁמֶן אֶחָדנָתַן אוֹרוֹ בְּחוֹרֶףלִשְׁמוֹנָה יָמִים שֶׁבַע הֲקָפוֹתעֲרָבוֹת בְּעוֹז חוֹבְטִיםגֶּשֶׁם לִבְרָכָה

Nearly Yom Kippur

2004-09-23T23:29:00.000+02:00

If I was capable, I would translate this into English. I've tried many times to translate Agnon, but I just can't capture it. השמים היו טהורים והארץ היתה שקטה וכל הרחובות היו נקיים, ורוח חדשה היתה מפרפרת בחללו של עולם. ואני תינוק כבן ארבע הייתי ומלובש הייתי בגדי מועד, ואיש אחד מקרובי הוליכני אצל אבי ואצל זקני לבית התפילה, ובית התפילה היה מלא עטופי טליתות ועטרות כסף בראשיהם ובגדיהם בגדי

Ideas for teaching liturgy

2004-09-19T11:47:00.000+03:00

I realized during Rosh Hashana services last week that Aviad doesn't know half as much as I had assumed that he did about the structure of the Mahzor. The middle of the silent Amida wasn't a very helpful time to realize this, but I gave him a whispered overview of Malchuyot Zichronot and Shofarot before the repetition while resolving to do the job properly in the time remaining before his Bar

RSS changes

2004-09-18T20:23:00.000+03:00

For those using the RSS feed, I have been fiddling with the settings, and the most notable result seems to be that the URI has changed from http://mountainsmog.blogspot.com/rss/MountainSmog.xml to http://mountainsmog.blogspot.com/rss/mountainsmog.xml. Apologies if this has inconvenienced anybody.

For calendar geeks

2004-09-18T11:54:00.000+03:00

Hat-tip to Avraham Bronstein for the link to “How is this year different from all other years?” Sample quotation: This year 5765 is the only year in all of history whose “keviut” (year-type determination) involves dechiyyat BeTU-TaKPaT at the end of the year, and whose Pesach falls on April 24. The "exercise for the reader" in section M.7 has been bothering me: "There is one other situation [

Eyeopener

2004-09-14T22:49:00.000+03:00

In the Torah reading for the first day of Rosh Hashana, Hagar and Ishmael have been sent off into the desert and have run out of water. Hagar sits crying, out of sight of her son so as not to see him die. She has given up hope. At this point, just as in the story of the Akeda in the reading for the next day (why does nobody ever seem to make anything of the parallels between the two stories? A

Google takes a stand on gender politics

2004-09-01T19:28:00.000+03:00

How many deaths will it take?

2004-09-01T00:47:00.000+03:00

Every terrorist attack brings its own horrid variations on the same old tragedy. On the news tonight we heard someone describe how he had been sitting next to the suicide bomber for part of the bus journey until he had given up his seat to a woman and moved to the back of the bus. With his voice shaking, he described how he had seen the same woman lying dead in the bus, and how hard it was to

I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine

2004-08-30T23:36:00.000+03:00

As far as I know (and I would love to be corrected) Ellul is the only Hebrew month which has Midrash on its name. The one that everybody remembers is the notarikon אני לדודי ודודי לי from Song of Songs 6, 3, but there are several more. That one itself is part of a set of three verses with an acrostic אלול, and the other two are Deuteronomy 30, 6: ומל יהוה אלהיך את לבבך ואת לבב זרעך and Esther

Aramaic Watch

2004-08-26T10:53:00.000+03:00

Welcome Naomi Chana to my sidebar. Baraita is the first blog I've come across apart from this one with an Aramaic title, and it's totally compulsive reading.

Firefox 1.0

2004-08-26T00:02:00.000+03:00

Reading some of the controversy surrounding recent feature-set decisions by the Firefox team, I can't help wondering whether they are falling into the 80/20 fallacy.

Some like it hot

2004-08-16T10:11:00.000+03:00

Update: some more details of the preparation added. We aren't an all-the-year-round Hamin eating family, but the period during the summer when we don't eat Hamin (otherwise known as cholent) gets shorter every year, and this year it seems to be over already. Like everybody else, I, and I alone, know the One True Way to prepare Hamin, and it's like this: 500g shoulder meat cut into chunks.

Overheard in the street

2004-08-04T07:34:00.000+03:00

Teen girl to teen boy: "I can't stay later than 12: my parents told me to be home by 10."

Are you bluish? You don't look bluish!

2004-08-04T07:26:00.000+03:00

Aviad will be bar mitzvah next February and we have been working together on learning his Torah portion, Parshat Teruma (Exodus 25,1 – 27,19). One of the first questions to come up was, what exactly is the "blue" (תכלת) mentioned in chapter 25 verse 4, which is also used for making Tzitzit — except that it isn't, and hasn't been for over 1,000 years, because nobody knows the correct dye to use.

Updates

2004-08-03T00:37:00.000+03:00

I've added some more of my favourite blogs to the sidebar. Since I've been commenting on other people's blogs recently, it seems only fair to enable comments here as well. Please feel free to say hello!

God-zilla

2004-07-14T02:14:00.000+03:00

The latest hot topic in Mozilla blog-land is God. It started when Gerv went into hospital with appendicitis, and asked "Those Christians among you, please pray that he would trust continually in Christ as his strength and as his Creator!". I and others of Gerv's friends and colleagues added our prayers to the comments on his blog, in spite of not being Christians, and, ברוך רופא חולים, Gerv was

Some Poetry

2004-06-10T01:41:00.000+03:00

I recently discovered a very cool site, Seforim Online. Downloads are a little slow, but they have lots of excellent stuff. I've been reading and enjoying some of Abraham Ibn Ezra's poems. Look at this little gem: אִלּוּ לְפִי אֵידִי דְּמָעַי יִזְלוּן לֹא דָרְכָה רֶגֶל אֱנוֹשׁ יַבֶּשֶׁת, אַךְ לֹא לְמֵי נֹח לְבַד כֹּרַת בְּרִית, כִּי גַם לְדִמְעִי נִרְאֲתָה הַקֶּשֶׁת. Or this question and

Transit of Venus

2004-06-08T23:20:00.000+03:00

A few pictures here.

Qamats and Segol are now endangered species.

2004-06-06T00:00:00.000+03:00

I am still in shock from this article, maybe because I have never accepted the concept of the "Academy of the Hebrew language" as dictators of what is or isn't correct Hebrew. And my confidence is hardly increased when that last link doesn't work for me and I have to root out the original article from Google cache. However, my chief astonishment comes from the confident statement that Tsere and

Dateline Las Cruces, NM

2004-02-16T07:49:00.000+02:00

On the sixth day of our road trip, we at last have the luxury of an RV park with wireless internet access, and I managed to catch up with some percentage of the hundreds of emails that have been accumulating. So far we have camped in Hollister Hills, Ciasta Lake, Joshua Tree National Park, Phoenix, AZ (where the site we booked by phone, and who interrogated us in detail about the size and age of

More From My Commonplace Book

2004-01-25T06:02:00.000+02:00

It's a sad coincidence that I should have come to this entry in my commonplace book on the same day that I read Joan Aiken's obituary. You can have a grievance or you can have fun, but you can't have both. Joan Aiken, Foul Matter

From My Commonplace Book

2004-01-22T00:01:00.000+02:00

Every now and then I think to myself how much I would like to have an old-fashioned commonplace book in which I could copy down passages from books that make a particular impression on me. Occasionally I even start copying a few on scraps of paper, or into files on the computer. Just now while tidying up some old papers I found one of these abortive attempts, which as far as I remember dates

Counting my blessings

2004-01-15T20:33:00.000+02:00

I could never adequately express my gratitude for true friendship. I can hardly believe how lucky I am. What a gift it is to have somebody in my life who cares so much about me, who is interested in so many of the same things that I am and loves doing them with me or talking about them with me, who knows much more than I about some things and is ready to teach, who knows less than I about some

Moving on again

2003-12-14T11:08:00.000+02:00

I was not too surprised by Tuesday's news, since I have pretty much been waiting for that shoe to drop ever since this shoe dropped. Since last July I have anyway felt rather a fish out of water in the AOL development culture, and I am hoping that this will have the good side of getting me back into the open source world where I feel I belong. So, what are the effects of being laid off for

Moving on

2003-12-04T08:08:00.000+02:00

Tonight, which is the first night after the end of the period of saying Kaddish for my late mother, Gwen Montagu נעמי בת אברהם ושרה נ"ע, I was meditating and had the following insight. I hope I will be able to write it down as clearly as it appeared to me. כִּי עִמְּךָ מְקוֹר חַיִּים בְּאוֹרְךָ נִרְאֶה אוֹר (תהלים ל"ו י') For with You is the source of life; by Your light we see light. (Psalm 36

Unusability

2003-10-28T07:13:00.000+02:00

Searching for tickets on Orbitz I get this error message: "Flexible date" searching is available for destinations in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Please enter a new destination or change to "dates not flexible" search. Firstly, why the hell didn't they say that on the previous screen? Secondly, do they really think that I might say “Oh, there’s no flexible search

Resopmoc Allizom

2003-10-15T20:13:00.000+02:00

It's definitely good news that the standalone version of Mozilla Composer will have configurable toolbars, as seen on this screenshot. It removes at a stroke all the excuses previously used by iso-8859-1-centric fanatics for not fixing the bug that there is no toolbar button to set the paragraph direction.

Reason to Disbelieve?

2003-10-10T08:48:00.000+02:00

I have noticed before how intelligent people will throw logic to the four winds when discussing their religion. It’s interesting to see atheists doing it too. I’m quite sure that Hixie would not come within a thousand miles of perpetrating a multiple non sequitur like this in connection to any other topic. Not that I think that the position of the Catholic Church as represented in the quoted

Anatomy lessons urgently required.

2003-10-05T04:33:00.000+02:00

Since Daniel frustrated me yet again by writing a blog entry in a strange Gallic language, and since my knowledge of the aforementioned Gallic language is good enough to read Asterix and Tintin, and good enough to see that the aforementioned blog entry was probably interesting to me; but nevertheless bad enough that I didn't really know what it was saying, and bad enough that I make embarassing

Resolutions

2003-09-01T09:36:00.000+03:00

From now on there will be no more hidden subtexts and secret messages in this blog (except for certain parts of this entry). I will say what I mean, and mean what I say. I appreciate the sensitive reaction from my friend, but I don’t want to put friends in the same position in the future.

VIZZINI: I'm waiting

2003-08-29T09:04:00.000+03:00

Last January I read that someone had discovered an annotated edition of Beowulf with translation by no less than J. R. R. Tolkien, and that it was “scheduled for publication this coming summer.” I’m still waiting. Being an unashamed intellectual snob and show-off (what my ex-wife would have called a “tadas mocka”), I prefer for myself to read Beowulf in the original, but I would like to be

Internationalized site of the day

2003-08-27T00:21:00.000+03:00

And the winner is: The Weather Underground. Try playing with your Accept-Language header and reloading.

Carob, anyone?

2003-07-18T09:47:00.000+03:00

This Sunday to Tuesday the whole family was on vacation in L.A. for two days, doing all the obligatory L.A. touristy things. A great time was had by all: the kids especially enjoyed Universal Studios and I especially enjoyed the Getty Museum, but everybody enjoyed everything overall. Coming back was quite a shock, though. After missing just two days at the office, I came back to an entirely new

How do you say �Simon� in Japanese?

2003-06-26T08:27:00.000+03:00

While debugging some issues with Japanese IMEs today, I experimented with entering my own name to see what would happen. The normal way to write it in Japanese would be in Katakana, シモン, but I tried converting it into Kanji to see how it came out. The result was: 諮問 I asked a coworker what this meant, and he told me, “a request for information from one's peers”. Isn't that cool?

Synchronicity strikes again

2003-06-04T12:02:00.000+03:00

smontagu: btw, you think you'll update your blog before the Armageddon ? glazou: funny you should ask that I was just asking myself the same question What makes it especially funny is that I was considering blogging about the Armageddon! Specifically about the Left Behind series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, which I have been working my way

Flattery will get you most places

2003-01-11T12:24:00.000+02:00

I spent most of today debugging an issue that I knew nothing about this time yesterday, and now know a bit more about. I seem to have come up with an empirical solution, at least Note to bug reporters: saying things like “a lot of effort regarding arabic support in mozilla especially the arabic/bidi support which I can say THANK YOU.” is an excellent way to get your bugs prioritized.

And so to blog

2003-01-08T01:07:00.000+02:00

I have been reading an interesting new web log. Either the author is using a different calendar or he has serious bandwidth issues, since his posts are showing up with a 343-year lag. “[I] went to my office, where there was nothing to do.” Is it just me, or does that sound exactly like Pav talking?

A terrorist by any other name

2002-12-27T21:46:00.000+02:00

Syrian President Bashir Assad, rejecting criticism of Syria allowing Hamas and the Islamic Jihad to operate offices in Syria: “Of course we don't have, in Syria, organisations supporting terrorism. We have press officers.” A recent press release from the Jihad: four killed and three wounded during their Sabbath evening meal.

All you need is credit

2002-12-20T11:28:00.000+02:00

I have often thought it ironical that Paul McCartney and I happen to share our birthday. Everyone in the world is either a Lennonite or a McCartneyite, and I am a fanatical Lennonite. Recently Paul has sunk to new depths by crediting Lennon-McCartney songs to “Paul McCartney and John Lennon”. Somehow this reminds me of the story of the two Buddhist monks who are walking through the jungle when

RSS now available

2002-12-19T23:55:00.000+02:00

This blog now has an RSS version

One in a million

2002-12-19T08:57:00.000+02:00

The wise men of Chelm were discussing whether one would be better off to have been born or never to have been born. After seven days and seven nights they came to their conclusion: one would be better off never to have been born, but who is that lucky? Maybe one in a million. Here is a quotation from Agnon with the same subtext, from the last chapter of Temol Shilshom: קל להם לאותם שאינם טורדים

Remove the what?

2002-11-22T10:32:00.000+02:00

Heh. Daniel is funny. For the record, you can get Chinese food in the Middle East, though you might have trouble ordering sweet and sour pork. I own a recipe book of “kosher Chinese cooking”, in which all the pork recipes have been changed to beef. It’s a rather sloppy job: the typeface is visibly different, and there are a few places which they missed, so you get things like: Heat the oil and

Laughing Matters

2002-11-22T09:52:00.000+02:00

The article I linked to a little while ago is the only article of mine available online in the “Jerusalem Post” archives, which is a shame. It was the less good of the two opinion pieces I wrote for them. Here is the first. It wouldn’t have occurred to me to submit it to a newspaper, if my ex-wife hadn’t been the editor of the Op-Ed page at the time. I was ranting to her about one of the issues

Tefillin time

2002-11-21T11:30:00.000+02:00

I never thought I would be able to point to something I have in common with Madonna, but now we have both been seen wrapping black leather straps around our left arm and the fingers of our left hand.

One man's dignity is another man's heresy

2002-11-09T17:43:00.000+02:00

I wish I knew more about the current controversy surrounding British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks than I can learn from reading articles in the “Guardian”, “Jewish Chronicle” and “Jerusalem Post”. As reported, it makes very little sense. If it is unacceptable to say “In heaven there is truth; on earth there are truths”, will it be kosher to say “on earth there are multiple perspectives on truth&

It bugs me

2002-10-04T09:38:00.000+03:00

It's interesting to read that Microsoft has hit upon the idea of “adding an option for customers to go to a Website where they can learn more about and even fix the errors they report.” Perhaps we should sell them a license for Bugzilla. In the same article, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is quoted as saying, “About 20 per cent of the bugs cause 80 per cent of all errors, and &ndash this is

It was good for me. Was it good for you?

2002-10-04T09:27:00.000+03:00

How about that? Yesterday's pathetic plea for attention was answered, and I lost my link virginity.

Matras, anyone?

2002-10-03T11:03:00.000+03:00

Life is so hard. How will I ever be famous if even people who acknowledge me don't link to me? That article was interesting to read. I always thought that it would be obvious to anyone that the Hebrew numbering system is so straightforward that a child can master it, but for someone looking at the rules from the outside, without knowing the language or the culture, it somehow starts to seem “

Ritual Mocking

2002-09-26T09:11:00.000+03:00

Joel Spolsky has been reading Peter Trudelle and Matthew Thomas, and draws the conclusion that distributed open-source development doesn�t have the bandwidth to achieve results — a conclusion which Matthew himself doesn�t agree with. I have noticed another characteristic of a project like Mozilla as opposed to a conventional development project within a company. To get a job in a company, you

2002-09-21T08:25:00.000+03:00

I have been working on a paper on Hebrew numbering, which is on my people.netscape.com site together with my paper “ The Story of Bidi Mozilla” from the last Unicode Conference, soon to be available in a native HTML version instead of that rather nasty Powerpoint to HTML conversion.

2002-08-30T10:38:00.000+03:00

I love praise as much as anyone else, but I have to confess that this is a little bit over the top. Anyway, I hope it attracts a lot of new users to the Hebrew Mozilla site.

2002-06-23T10:26:00.000+03:00

I read Golden Gate by Vikram Seth this week, a book I have been keeping an eye open for for years, and was not disappointed. When I read An Equal Music a few years ago I thought it was one of the best books I had read for a long time (although I later found A Suitable Boy impossible to digest). Golden Gate is a rare tour de force: a novel in verse. The whole book, including the Acknowledgments

2002-06-19T03:51:00.000+03:00

Happy Birthday to me, I am forty three. I have four sweet children And a wife who loves me.

2002-05-26T10:32:00.000+03:00

Dang. Matthew Thomas has beaten me to it, and posted a blog saying exactly what I was going to say about Mozillazine’s comments on CNET’s review of Netscape’s newly pre-released browser. He even links to the same article by Joel God-comes-to-me-for-advice-on-software Spolsky that I was going to link to. So I will have to either shut up (fat chance), or think of something else to say on the

2002-05-14T10:55:00.000+03:00

Tonight we experienced our first California earthquake. It was magnitude 5.2 on the Richter scale, which is classified as “moderate”; the amount of energy released is equivalent to a 32 kiloton explosion, which seems like a lot to me, but is only about one thousandth as powerful as the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989. It's interesting how one reacts to something totally unexpected like an

2002-05-10T10:22:00.000+03:00

I’m sorry that I returned Antoine de Saint-Exupery’sThe Wisdom of the Sands to the library without having read much of it. I found it difficult to get into, I don’t know whether because of something in the book itself or because of defects in the translation. Chiefly though, it isn’t really a book to take out of the library, read through and return after three weeks. I would like to have had it

2002-05-06T10:54:00.000+03:00

Reading Netscape Time by Jim Clark, I was struck by the following passage After all, it’s monkish work to write line after line of instructions in arcane computer languages day after day, month after month. The task must be something like translating the Bible from Hebrew and Greek to English (or rather, the other way around). I’m not sure what “the other way around” is in this context, but

2002-05-02T17:00:00.000+03:00

I am having an ambivalent reaction to fixing a bug that has been resisting me for the last nine months. Of course it’s immensely satisfying to have a result from the many hours that I’ve spent in the debugger chasing it down. Debugging is like a scientific research product (not that I’ve ever done one of those). As you acquire more data, a picture slowly emerges. Hypotheses suggest themselves,

2002-04-29T10:47:00.000+03:00

I don’t know if I am more relieved or frightened to discover that astronomers have even less clue than software engineers on how to describe their subject to beginners. I borrowed The Moden Amateur Astronomer, ed. Patrick Moore, from the library. It’s one of a series with the general title Practical Astronomy, and according to the blurb, If you already own an astronomical telescope and want to

2002-04-26T11:41:00.000+03:00

I have now completely redone the blog template and CSS, and although it frightened me at first after I republished by claiming to be unable to access the site, things now seem to be working OK, more or less. The layout problems I was experiencing were largely due to incompatible expectations by the template and my own entries, which I have managed to synchronize better now. I doubt if I will ever

2002-04-25T09:45:00.000+03:00

OK, what's going on here? In my naïveté I understood that “blogging tools” were supposed to make web publishing easier. I have just spent far longer in a cycle of editing, publishing, re-editing and re-publishing the previous entry than it would have taken me to write the whole bloody thing out in HTML source in emacs and ftp it to a web site — and it still looks horrible. My first attempt in

2002-04-25T09:44:00.000+03:00

It was interesting to discover that Mozilla has had a severe Bidi bug in print headers just about for ever. Print headers didn't exist when we designed Bidi; we never noticed the bug when they sneaked in a few months before we started checking code in to the tree; and nobody has ever noticed it since. It just goes to show that people don't print much, or don't look very hard at the results.

2002-04-16T09:11:00.000+03:00

The latest edition of the usually excellent LangaList recommends me to go to ContentAudit for a good laugh, but as I enter the site my (admittely paranoid) alarm triggers are going off one after the other. Why does the site want my email address? Why does it redirect me to a page saying “Attention Netscape UsersContent Audit is currently designed for Internet Explorer only.” However funny the

2002-04-14T10:30:00.000+03:00

Everyone else seems to be doing it, so why not me? The title, if you were wondering, is "על הא ודא", which is Aramaic for "On This And That".