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Russell Cohen

Russell Cohen

Maskil is a freelance writer and blogger. He is a progressive Jew and Green Zionist, and writes on Jewish affairs, Israel, the environment and technology.
Re: Change Log: Implementing Disqus (Carefully) - http://test.maskil.info/2009...
"Ilene, you do realise that you're replying to an item that was posted almost three years ago. don't you?" - Russell Cohen
My wife asked me if I had a spare USB memory stick for her to use. I did, and when I was preparing it for her, discovered that there’s no decent free portable anti-virus application for USB flash drives. My wife is not very computer-savvy, so what I was looking for was an app that would autorun and scan any files being transferred to/from the... - http://amplify.com/u/a1jdym
Things that totally boggle my mind: (via Amplify) http://t.co/zyQctexb
Toilet lids and seats that won’t stay up on their own. Who actually designs and manufactures these things!? - http://amplify.com/u/a1j7ky
People who ask questions in seminars, not to learn, but to showboat or grandstand. Whoopee for you that you already have a successful ~!@#ing business, but I’m actually here to learn from the lecturer! - http://amplify.com/u/a1j7iw
Things that bug the hell out of me: (via Amplify) http://t.co/HJvkPNWD
Re: How to Use Google Apps for Your Startup - http://www.brainscape.com/blog...
"I’m sure you’re aware that the user limit for Standard Edition accounts has now changed to a paltry 10 users.  This affects only new Google Apps accounts, not existing accounts." - Russell Cohen
Re: How to Use Google Apps for Your Startup - http://www.brain-scape.com/blog...
"I’m sure you’re aware that the user limit for Standard Edition accounts has now changed to a paltry 10 users.  This affects only new Google Apps accounts, not existing accounts." - Russell Cohen
Re: How to Use Google Apps for Your Startup - http://brainscape.com/blog...
"I’m sure you’re aware that the user limit for Standard Edition accounts has now changed to a paltry 10 users.  This affects only new Google Apps accounts, not existing accounts." - Russell Cohen
US history buffs out there, does anyone have a reasonably simple explanation as to why the South wasn’t allowed to secede from the Union? I’ve never really understood that. - http://amplify.com/u/a1ibbs
I happened to visit Eastgate mall a few Sundays ago and passed through the banking court, where all the major banks in SA are represented. Although it was Sunday morning, all of the bank branches were open and buzzing, with the exception of … Standard Bank. What’s the thinking there in the ivory tower? We’re too big to have to compete? - http://amplify.com/u/a1i980
Just when the phenomenon of the space tourist and near-space tourist has become a reality, the ri... - http://amplify.com/u/a1hv2n
Why I won’t be attending Limmud SA JHB 2012 - http://freehand.maskil.info/why-i-w...
Why I won’t be attending Limmud SA JHB 2012: I just received an e-mail update from Limmud SA, and... - https://plus.google.com/1166677...
Why is that, when you have a deadline to meet, everyone else’s stuff is suddenly screamingly urgent too! - http://amplify.com/u/a1hu9a
Why is that, when you have a deadline to meet, everyone else’s stuff is suddenly screamingly urge... - http://amplify.com/u/a1hu9a
Scholars at Tel Aviv University are using digital technologies to piece together more than 350,00... - http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily...
Re: Young Israeli art student scam in South Africa? - http://blog.maskil.info/2008...
"Very much so, Pamela.  We also had them at our door just a few evenings ago." - Russell Cohen
Went onto the SABC TV Licence Website to update the school’s details and make payment for 2011/12. The Website promptly proceeded to collapse like a badly-built house of cards! It’s difficult to over-estimate how much sh*t is actually out there! - http://amplify.com/u/a1edmb
Working with domains in the .co.za namespace is becoming a real pain! I’m starting to think I should avoid registering .co.za domains at all costs in future. The technology behind DotCoZa appears to be absolutely antediluvian! - http://amplify.com/u/a1edm9
Just wondering… why doesn’t Outlook spell-check the Subject field of an e-mail message (through O... - http://amplify.com/u/a1e33o
Just wondering… why doesn’t Outlook spell-check the Subject field of an e-mail message (through O/L 2003 anyway)? It’s been bugging me for years… - http://amplify.com/u/a1e33o
Mishkan T'filah is a worthy successor to previous prayer books (siddurim) used by the Progressive Jewish community. I just think that those who compiled it lost a superb opportunity to abbreviate the services (or at least the material making up each service). Instead, the opposite appears to have happened, with material which was absent from... - http://amplify.com/u/a1dyad
New tumble-log post: In praise of the automatic transmission: In June of this year, we spent… http://freehand.maskil.info/in-prai...
In praise of the automatic transmission - http://freehand.maskil.info/in-prai...
While the conspiracy theories around the NASA moon landings are unconvincing, I’ve often wondered... - http://amplify.com/u/a1dc66
While the conspiracy theories around the NASA moon landings are unconvincing, I’ve often wondered why “we” never went back. The last manned moon landing was 1972, while the last unmanned mission was 1976, i.e. almost 40 years ago! As a youngster poring over accounts of the moon landings in newspapers and magazines (hey, we never had TV in SA in... - http://amplify.com/u/a1dc66
Progress is not a straight line - http://freehand.maskil.info/progres...
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