Thoughts on yoav.blog

Six years off stage

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:33:29 +0000

I realized today it’s been six years since my last conference talk at WordCamp Kathmandu 2019. I used to make a point of speaking at least once a year – it took a lot of work to prepare, but the energy in the room and the conversations afterward always made it worthwhile. Covid interrupted that streak and I somehow never picked it back up. I really do miss it.

Broken MicroSD card

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:23:10 +0000

I’ve put my phone’s 8GB MicroSD card in an adapter the wrong way, and this is what happened when I tried to pull it out:

Then I remembered how my father was excited they got a 40MB hard drive in the computer training center where he worked, 20 years ago. It was huge!

Two hundred times that in a plastic card smaller than my thumb nail? I admire who ever had the imagination to dream that.

Unrest

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:11:10 +0000

And so many questions.

It’s been a week since the “Flotilla” events.
I can’t remember when news, any news, perturbed me so much.
Not because of what happened, but because of why, and how.

How did it get to be this way?

Why do I believe one side or the other?
Is there a truth?

With so much hate and violence, can it ever end?
And how can you not lose hope?