On Wednesday I experienced more flying and airports than I had every expected to, in a single day. It actually took more than 26 hours from takeoff – to final landing. I flew Tel Aviv – Barcelona – Madrid – New York – Los Angeles. Aside from a very rude flight attendant who refused to […]
The media is full of reports today that in Hamas-controlled Gaza, the local leadership has decreed that female lawyers must cover their hair. But on Israel’s channel 2 this evening there was a report that ALL women in Gaza are now forced to wear head coverings. In the report Silman A-Shafi, the Arab reporter reports […]
Actually they arrived a few months ago – but I wasn’t here to see them. We are sending these out to as a thank you to customers who talk about our company on their websites and blogs! If you know someone who we should be thanking – let me know! Also a big thanks to […]
On Tuesday we fly to Paris – my wife and 7 kids! This is a two day stop on the way to dropping them all off in Los Angeles for the summer. Then I head back to the Est coast for meetings in Washington and New York. Then back to Israel. Three weeks later I […]
Roni Harari, the passionate gardener from my last post says it makes no sense to have everyone stop using water because of the drought here in Israel. He says we are just buying the government more time – which they are not using to find a long-term solution to the water situation. He says – […]
Passion is the key. Roni is passionate – when I hire him to do work for me – I get many of the advantages of his passion without having to invest my life in his passion. Working with passionate people pays!
When I was 13 years old and living in Dallas Texas, I recall going to see White Nights, the movie in which Baryshnikov, the ballet dancer ends up on a flight that lands in Russia. I think he has to outrun the local authorities because he is wanted there for changing sides a few years […]
Check out this – Remember Opera, the little browser that could for a while… They are back and taking a new stab at the browser space with Opera Unite – supposed to contain server in the browser – kind-of a P2P platform but not just for stealing videos and music. (Are there other things worth […]
Sam Michelson’s first blog post….