Recent Blog Posts
Israeli politics in a nutshell
This exchange basically represents Israeli politics for me. Source: Times of Israel
Cautionary tale about clearing your browser history
I cleared my Firefox cache in an attempt to resolve a slow performance issue. Boy, I didn’t realise how much I rely on my browser history to get things done every day. I should have persisted with the performance issue …
Horrifying COVID-19 infection rate ahead of Israeli lockdown
Israel is going into another national lockdown this weekend, for three weeks. It’s controversial (as are most things in Israel these days), and the cost to our economy will likely be substantial. At the same time, our COVID-19 infection rate seems to be out of control.
Kangaroos in Israel
My Summer vacation has gone by so quickly, as vacations often do. One of the many things we did was to take a drive up north to see kangaroos in Israel at Gan-Garoo, an Australian Park … in Israel.
Kicking off my Summer vacation
Today is the first day of my Summer vacation, and I’ve started it with an unexpectedly appealing drink in a park with our daughter while we wait for our son to finish a lesson nearby.
A Minecraft Dungeons Adventurer’s Life
I purchased Minecraft Dungeons for the Nintendo Switch a month or two ago, primarily for our kids. They’re Minecraft fanatics, and they’d been looking forward to this game since they first saw the announcement. I was also curious whether this was a game that I could enjoy? 
Adolescent sunflowers
My wife and son are growing various plants on our balcony, including three sunflowers. As with most adolescents, they are tall, gawky, and show great potential!
Powerful Deer – The Best GIF I’ve Seen This Week
We share a lot of GIFs in Slack at work, and one of my colleagues shared “Powerful Deer”. It’s probably the best GIF I’ve seen this week, heck all month!
Light at the end of a short tunnel
I went for a walk to do some shopping this morning. One of the cool benefits of our new city center is a convenient, short tunnel to the mall. It was nice to be out, roaming around the city a little, even with a mask taped to my face (it stops fogging up my sunglasses!). […]
17 years and I miss my father every day
My father passed away 17 years ago, today (at least based on the Hebrew calendar – he passed away on 12 July 2003). This week we also join our cousins, and aunt in mourning our uncle who passed away last week.
Reality tapping you on the shoulder
My family suffered a tragic loss this week due to the coronavirus. Last night, I read Om Malik’s post “The Pain of Distance“, and noticing reality tapping you on the shoulder – If this is how I feel, I can’t even internalize how my mom must be feeling. She said it is cold. She didn’t […]
Tragedy of Normalcy in the Coronavirus Shadow
This coronavirus is an insidious thing. It pulls families apart when they desperately need to be together. A cliché in Israel is the phrase: “הכל בסדר” – “Everything is ok”. It isn’t, and it won’t be for a while yet.
All the races of Middle Earth
I enjoyed this introduction to the various races of Middle Earth: I’m very tempted to try figure out which of Tolkein’s books delve into the history of Middle Earth, before the events of The Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings. Well, I know there are earlier books. I have a little research to work out […]
Trees are like puppies
I run past young trees like these on one of my routes, and each time I can’t help but think that these trees are like puppies. Just like puppies have oversized paws, these trees seem to have oversized leaves that they’re going to grow into over time.
Free fall
The world feels more than a little crazy at the moment. Relative to what 2020 has been so far, that’s saying a lot. Lately, I’ve felt a bit like we’re in free fall, pretending that the air rushing past us as we hurtle down is just a refreshing breeze on a Spring day. It’s almost as if we’re all desperately hoping it can be ok again, faking it until we make it (if we do).
Stand against racism
The wave of violence spreading across the United States is shocking, even as the growing protests are understandable. It boggles my mind that this country, the “land of the free”, is still mired in deeply routed racism, and inequality. Every society has its challenges, certainly. Israel is no different. We have divides of our own. […]
Loading…
Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.
Categories
- Business and work (343)
- Creative expression (335)
- Coding (31)
- Design (85)
- Photography (146)
- Writing (62)
- Entertainment (292)
- Art (15)
- Books (34)
- Film (65)
- Food and Drink (10)
- Games (18)
- Music (79)
- Podcasts (3)
- Sports (16)
- Television (24)
- Events and Life (315)
- Legal (28)
- Media (23)
- Mindsets (466)
- Miscellany (2,547)
- People (223)
- Policy issues (39)
- Politics and government (49)
- Science and nature (93)
- Spirituality (13)
- Travel and places (227)
- Useful stuff (322)
- Applications (83)
- Education (32)
- Tutorials (14)
- Web/Tech (662)
- Blogs and blogging (208)
- Devices (81)
- Mobile Tech (119)
- Podcasting (7)
- Publishing (14)
- Semantic Web (17)
- Social Web (224)
- Telecoms (32)
- Wellbeing (37)
Tags
blogging children Companies Cool stuff coronavirus COVID-19 Current Affairs Don’t be evil Don’t be stupid Events evernote facebook family Film firefox flickr flowers Food and Drink google+ history how to inspiration israel kids life memories modi’in movie music nasa News open web photography photos privacy productivity seth godin sharing social media Themes twitter video wordpress work writing
One reply on “Blog Posts”
Paul mentioned this Page on pauljacobson.me.