Watching The Wheels

גרעין איילים בדימונה on Flickr.

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 01:19:37 +0200

גרעין איילים בדימונה on Flickr.

Loved Rabbit Seasoning - Pronoun Problem - YouTube (via Boxee)

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:03:31 +0300

Loved Rabbit Seasoning - Pronoun Problem - YouTube (via Boxee)

Loved ‫יורם אוחיון עוצר מפגין ודני לוי מאיים לשבור לו את היד‬‎ - YouTu

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:52:00 +0300

Loved ‫יורם אוחיון עוצר מפגין ודני לוי מאיים לשבור לו את היד‬‎ - YouTu

http://publicdomainreview.org/

Tue, 29 May 2012 21:52:11 +0300

http://publicdomainreview.org/

closed gate on Flickr.high walls and closed gates on public...

Sun, 20 May 2012 15:38:27 +0300

closed gate on Flickr.

high walls and closed gates on public streets. #FAIL

GDS design principleswww.gov.uk Start with needs**user needs not...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:52:32 +0300

GDS design principles
www.gov.uk

Start with needs*
*user needs not government needs
The design process must start with identifying and thinking about real user needs. We should design around those — not around the way the ‘official process’ is at the moment. We must…

The british gov reminds us again why they ruled the biggest empire

Loved YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. (via Boxee)

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:05:11 +0300

Loved YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. (via Boxee)

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:01:41 +0300

Loved YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. (via Boxee)

a nice place to hack on Flickr.great coffe and a nice place to...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:08:47 +0200

a nice place to hack on Flickr.

great coffe and a nice place to work in the carmel market

First Blood on Flickr.First Blood art installation in the mazeh...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:40:29 +0200

First Blood on Flickr.

First Blood art installation in the mazeh 9 coworking space

מפגש פעילים של הסדנא on Flickr.במפגש פעילים של הסדנא

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:33:47 +0200

מפגש פעילים של הסדנא on Flickr.

במפגש פעילים של הסדנא

Time to get back on that camel

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:51:58 +0200

It looks like I’m going to start a new company next month. The idea is neat, the team is balanced, and the founders are friends. The best part is that it’s a faceless app built on top of the best services out there and coding it will be fun.

It’s going to my 3rd company in 15 years and I want to get it right this time. My first company is a success and the second was a failure, but I learned a lot:

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao-tzu

If you rather have it in points:

Habit 1: Be Proactive

Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

Habit 3: Put First Things First

Stephen R. Covey

This time, I’m going to build me a lifestyle company with a fun local office by the beach with no more than 20 people in the office. My personal income from the company will support my current life style with a few extra perks, like a yearly vacation at Seychelles.

Given the current pace of things, I believe we can get there in two years. “There” meaning the time when we have our office and employees and founders are getting a decent salary. To support our lifestyle, money would flow in at rate of $200K a month.

As for the inflow of cash, given an average charge of $20 for a month of our service we will be billing ±10K paying customers. 10K customers seems like a huge challenge now that we don’t have a single one, so we need to make smaller steps. Probably a hundred users in 6 months and a thousand in a year, from them a hundred are paying an average of $20 a month.

It’s not going to be easy, but I believe that’s a camel we can mount.

חופש דת ויהדות בישראל

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:33:37 +0200

חופש דת ויהדות בישראל

Brain storming on Flickr.Brain storming

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:20:34 +0200

Brain storming on Flickr.

Brain storming

beshr: Started a new thing! Best technology related #LongReads...

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:46:52 +0200

beshr:

Started a new thing!

Best technology related #LongReads of the week…

Subscribe here: http://tinyletter.com/beshrkayali

Cities’ Cost Cuttings Leave Residents in the Dark - Monica Davey via NYTimes.com

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:42:25 +0200

Cities’ Cost Cuttings Leave Residents in the Dark - Monica Davey via NYTimes.com:

underpaidgenius:

Newest sign of austerity: cutting back on street lights.

Monica Davey via NYTimes.com

Cities around the nation, grappling with what is expected to be a fifth consecutive year of declining revenues and having exhausted the predictable budget trims, are increasingly considering something that would once have been untouchable: the lights.

Highland Park’s circumstances are extreme; with financial woes so deep and long term, it has extinguished all but 500 streetlights in a city accustomed to 1,600, utility company officials say. But similar efforts have played out in dozens of towns and cities, like Myrtle Creek, Ore., Clintonville, Wis., Brainerd, Minn., Santa Rosa, Calif., and Rockford, Ill.

What distinguishes these latest austerity measures is how noticeable they are to ordinary residents. If health care cuts, pay cuts, layoffs and furloughs — and even limits on enforcing building codes or maintaining parks — are most apparent to the people inside city halls, everyone notices when his streetlights go dark (and some cities, like Colorado Springs, where the issue boiled over, have already resumed some lighting when revenues allowed).

Turning off the lights has drawn grumpy crowds to city council meetings, stirred jealousy among neighborhoods and neighbors, and set off conversations about crime.

The cost savings seems to be the sole motivator of this trend, but what about the green dimension? Should we be burning all that oil to make the dark hours of night light? Even when people aren’t around? Is it sustainable? Probably not.

If cities were on a solar set-up — charging during the day to run lights at night — it would be a different story. But the majority of cities simply have been buying electricity from utilities, the majority of which is fueled by coal and natural gas: unsustainable sources.

Can’t people carry flashlights?

TLV-»Jaffa on Flickr.TLV-»Jaffa

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:33:38 +0200

TLV-»Jaffa on Flickr.

TLV-»Jaffa

Winter is closing in on Flickr.Winter is closing in

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:57:35 +0200

Winter is closing in on Flickr.

Winter is closing in

General Transit Feed Specification - Google Code

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:34:09 +0200

General Transit Feed Specification - Google Code

Read | The Public Domain |

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:12:52 +0200

Read | The Public Domain |