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I just finished reading “Something Happened” by Joseph Heller. It was a difficult book, but it was quite good, as well. Hopefully we can be better parents and people

So tomorrow at 9:23am, Abigail will be 2 weeks old. Time flies! So here’s a quick update for all those who care.

First of all, let me tell you about the birth - it was really exciting and a beautiful experience. And yes - it was also painful for Michal, but she was also very happy afterwards. We did what is called a ‘natural-birth’, and we totally recommend it.

Anyway after the birth we spent a few days in the hotel in the hospital (yeah, we have that thing in Israel, very comfy). Then we went back home, and we’re already starting to get a routine (mostly of eating and sleeping for little Abi).

She is really cute! So far she is also behaving quite well, and even lets us sleep (well, mostly).

During the day we enjoy viewing the Olympics together (she likes Judo, and swimming, but she didn’t enjoy fencing as much) - yeah, we have Television now (just for the games though).

Last week (friday, 9:23am) Michal gave birth to beautiful little Abigail - our first daughter! This is all very exciting

So now I’m a proud and happy father (yeah, okay, I’m dead tired too). Just wanted to tell the world!

I’ve been interviewed for an article on OLEDs, on the Digital Signage Today web site, which was nice. OLEDs are slowly getting mainstream, and hopefully OLED-Info will benefit

So I finally decided to make the move - upgrade all my drupal web sites from 4.7.4 to 5.8. I have 6 of those sites. It took me several days to actually succeeded in upgrading one of them… so many small bugs and stuff to sort out. But it worked in the end.

Anyway I already upgraded u3-info and expresscard-info, and will continue to upgrade the rest.

There’s a new boy in town - Google Knol. The knol (as in knowledge) is a wikipedia of experts. Anyone can write a knol on subjects that he knows about (for experts…). I gave it a try, and written a knol about OLED, and about AdSense. Check it out, it’s rather cool (and while you’re at it, give me a vote!).

Basically several people may write the same Knol (collaborative). The experts can also enjoy the AdSense revenue on the site. There might be several knols for a certain subject (unlike Wikipedia).

I’ve got me a new camera (don’t worry, I didn’t buy more junk - I’m just borrowing this one). It’s a small canon IXUS-70. It’s nice to have a small camera (my Panasonic is a bit larger, and my smaller Canon died in Switzerland).

Check out the photos we took at the beach

Happy birthday to OLED-Info!

If you have 20 minutes to spare, check this out. A great video about the consumer way of life - and what are the implications to our planet, and society, and happiness. So Michal and I are doing at least one thing right - we do not watch TV (we do watch DVD movies and shows - but no ads, and we don’t really watch a lot).

I also try to limit the stuff I buy. For example I try not to buy a lot of presents for all my nephews - I’m sure I’m less popular because of it, but it’s for the greater good.  Actually this year my sister and I decided that instead of buying birthday presents - we’ll give a donation in each other’s behalf. Cool!

I need to stop wanting new gadgets (I really need a new camera… damn). And to stop buying stuff I don’t need (which I’m getting better at). It also saves money, which is a good thing when we’re both almost not earning anything

Check out this nice blog post about AdSenseLog.

“So now I’m refocusing on content sites and with some of them focusing on CPC rather than CPA, AdSenseLog will be a central tool in my decision-making process.”

Interestingly he found out about it in a Facebook Ad - guess my ads there are paying off.