Hardy har har. Only nine days till WordCamp Israel, a one-day seminar on blogging including workshops on business, marketing, technology, and other impressive sounding words. The keynote speaker is Lorelle VanFossen who apparently has been blogging in one way or another for 13 years about topics such as travel, nature and travel photography, web design, and more.
13 YEARS??? 13 years ago, I was the first person I knew to get email and we were writing each other with THIS thing.
Somewhere, a teenager is reading this and having a heart attack.No, Caitlin, we didn't have Facebook either.
(By the way, 14 years ago, I was also realizing you could go into your Eudora preferences, change your "From" name in a lickety-split, and prank your friends. Ahh, the early days of the internet. Ech omrim "lickety-split"? Ok, I'm digressing.)
Here's some nice press for What War Zone???. In honor of the conference, Lorelle features some English and Hebrew Israeli blogs to watch out for including this one, calling it rip-roaring and twisted. (Boy, you barbeque even one baby on Yom Ha'atzmaut and nobody lets you forget it.) I'm looking forward to the conference; should be interesting And I may migrate this site over to WordPress sometime. (And Blogger will be hacking my site in 3...2...1...)
On an unrelated note, it's fun to go into this site's statistics and see where readers and accidental visitors are coming from. Recently, someone ended up here after searching on Ask.com for "im going on holiday to israel do i have to wear a burqa". Check it out. I don't know what's more surprising, that someone knows so little about this country or that there is a living thing on this planet not using Google for searches. Right now, somebody is getting defensive as he drinks his Mr. Pibb and watches movies on his Betamax. I also like how this guy writes his life story in the search...not sure what else to say about that. By the way, I just checked: Lycos, Altavista, and Dogpile search engines are still out there. If any of my loyal readers still use any of these three sites, you will receive a prize.
Right now, hundreds of former employees are wiping away their tears with their stock certificates.
And lastly, here's another, umm, interesting search. Hey, it's a comment, what can I do?
9 comments:
Dude, what's so bad about Pine? I *still* use it for some of my email -- I certainly don't have to worry about malicious attachments!
And I sometimes write my messages using vi -- though ASCII doesn't support cuneiform...
OMG- I haven't seen Pine in 10 years. I remember using it at UT and it was light years ahead of having to use the unix commands.
OY Oy OY!!!..So you are --at YOUR YOUNG AGE--becoming nostalgic about how the world used to be!!!--Look- I remember the first transistor radio(I was in Israel and saw it and asked "Wjat the hell is THAT?"...The advent of color TV, 8-track tapes; no cellphones; no PCS, Apples entry intot he world; I even remember SPUTNIK!!!--So shut up!---Love, momma sue
PS...I realized yesterday how old I am...my chanichim who live in Israel are RETIRING!!! (BLEEPS!!!!)...momma sue (liberman)
whats is a chanichim?
2. leek-eh-tee spleeet
btw I am still obsessive about "ech Omrim" I have good old redneck boys and gurls in cumming GA saying it, I even made a shirt bout it, will post a pic of it! if i knew how to spell it b'ivrit i woulda done it that way!
bah-feh-loh weeeengs
FOR FL JOSH IN GA: "Chanichim" is Hebrew for "those whom are educated"--or simpler, campers whom you oversee....like, kids in your bunk if you are the counselor--In Jewish youth groups, like Habonim and Young Judaea, it's those kids you "guided" through their youth (woe to them!!!)...sue
a dozen years ago I was a student at the University of Washington...you know...where PINE was developed! That system was all the rage, I had non-student friends who were actually jealous of me for having the "privilage" of using such an advanced system...WOW
Right now, some 18 year-old is sending out a Twitter update on her cell phone thinking, "That Seattle to Jerusalem guy is old as *#@$!"
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