tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51743585082217197062012-01-29T19:53:14.156+02:00Willow: Are you okay? <br/> Oz: Yeah. Hey, did everybody see that guy just turn to dust? <br/> Willow: Ohhh, well ... sort of. <br/> Xander: Yep. Vampires are real, a lot of 'em live in Sunnydale, Willow will fill you in. <br/> Willow: I know it's hard to accept at first. <br/> Oz: Actually, it explains a <i>lot</i>. <br/> <i>("Surprise", Buffy the Vampire Slayer)</i> <br/><br/> <b>Trying to think the unthinkable, do the undoable, eff the ineffable.</b>Inbar Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12717858990148327389noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5174358508221719706.post-42371610730590878792008-05-05T19:04:00.004+03:002008-05-05T19:19:00.125+03:00

In the Information Technologies (IT) market there is a domain called Application Monitoring (AM) and sometimes Business Process Monitoring (BPM). The company I work for (HP) has some products in that market (PDF here, lots of techinical language but some nice screenshots), and so do others. The paradigms of this practice deals with how to validate the quality and performance of IT systems over

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Warning: contains spoilers for the movie ‘Vantage Point’A couple of days ago I went to the debut of ‘Vantage Point’. Admittedly, I went on account of an interesting promo and the expected presence of Ayelt Zurer (this is the weird way her name is spelled in the credits). I came out after a great thriller, superbly edited and directed, excellently acted (yeah, Ayelt did as well as the rest of the

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I'm leaving Israel tomorrow and relocating to the US of A. It took a long while to accomplish this goal, something I worked towards at least a year and has been on my mind for several years now. The shipping company has been at our apartment on Sunday and packed everything, to be sent ahead of us to California. On the evening before I had a whim to listen to Simon & Garfunkel, and once all my

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In my past I had been (and may well be again) a student for graduate studies of Political Science. As a bachelor of Computer Sciences, I thought of making my thesis about some kind of interaction between the Political and the Technology. I never got around to do it in the end, having my studies frozen once I ended my military service, but it was something I toyed with in mind many

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The situation at Kibbutz Karmia seems to be a collision of several painful issues for the Israeli society. The facts, as far as I could figure it out, are these:The government sought an arrangement for all Gaza strip settlers evacuated in August 2005 (the Hitknatkut in Hebrew). Some were offered temporary housing at a few Kibbutzes (plural) in the region surrounding Gaza strip (but within Israeli

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Spoiler warning: this post includes spoilers for all Harry Potter books.That's it.I'm done.Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is well behind me, thus completing the chronicles of Harry Potter and friends.Time to look back and sum it up.I've got to admit it's getting better, getting better all the timeMy first impression of Harry Potter was the 2nd book. I read the first later on, but I've

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Israel Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has lately decided on increasing the compensation for Holocaust survivors by a puny 88 NIS (about 20$) a month. This decision was introduced to the government (and public) in a speech saying (my own translation):'We are fixing a wrong of 60 years which was never resolved... the negligence [of Holocaust survivors] will not be continued. We will take care of it..

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In Israel yesterday a private initiative calling for 'a day without road accidents' had ended with another sad addition to the statistics - 3 casualties, 149 accidents. While I don't want to dicuss this specific initiative, I would like to discuss some ideas it represented. Two axis of referenceOne of my thoughts over this was that we can picture two axis of reference to 'how to handle road

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Last Saturday I went to see 'Die Hard 4.0'. 'Went to see' encapsulates quite an effort - getting out of the house, driving to pick up my wife's friend, driving to the first theater only to find there are no tickets to the show we wanted, driving to a second theater and then waiting in the Tel Aviv hot afternoon until the doors were opened. Then we found out the movie is playing the smallest hall,

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Irit (my wife) and I had recently completed watching the masterpiece BBC show 'Life on Mars'. On the same note, I'm embrassed to say that I'm awaiting the 7th Harry Potter book. Lastly, a while back I'd been to a 'Abbey Road' tribute concert, done by Israeli musicinas. The underline conncetion is that all are very much English culture items.'Life on Mars' portraits Manchester of 1973, where

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Just my first blog post, not much to say.I would like this blog to be a little prism into my thoughts, my days, my friends and the things I like. You are sure to hear a lot about TV shows, books, technology and that rare combination of Philosophy and night-time tuna sandwitches (which I contemplate in the picture).See you,Inbar

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