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25-Apr-2008

The documentation for the Park Lisp dialect has been added into the open-source section:

Why am I doing it? For several reasons:

1. Because it's fun. This is by itself a good reason.
2. Because I found that designing your own language is one of the best ways to learn more about the original languages it is based on. When I designed the Perl dialect "Rindolf", I learned that some features I suggested for it were already doable in Perl 5.

Added the Hebrew translation of the "Case for Drug Legalisation" essay:

מכיוון שהסמים אינם חוקיים, הם מופצים על-ידי עוברי-חוק, שדורשים מחיר מופקע תמורתם. מחיר מופקע בהרבה מזה שדרוש לגדל, לזקק ולהפיץ אותם. כתוצאה מכך, יש שוק שחור גדול להפצה של סמים והמשתמשים בסמים נאלצים לבסוף לבצע פשעים כמו גניבה או שוד כדי לממן את הרגלי הסמים שלהם.

אחוז הפשיעה בארצות-הברית גדל פי שניים בשל האיסור על האלכוהול ("חוק היובש"). כאשר האיסור הוסר, הוא קטן חזרה למצבו המקורי. צפוי שפשעים הנובעים מסמים גורמים לריבוי דומה, בשל האופי הדומה של האיסור

The second revision of "Thoughts about the Best Introductory Language" is now available with many corrections and clarifications.

A Linux Kernel Patch to enhance the search dialog of the GUI configuration applet is now available there, as it has not been integrated into the mainline yet.

New fortune cookies have been added.

Added a note to the linking policy about requesting to remove mis-appropriate links.

KFlickr and the Firefox Uppity extension were added to the favourite open software page.

A "Bookmark me" button was added to the bottom of the main text of all the pages to facilitate bookmarking using online bookmarking and news services. Below it there are now some more text ads, which shouldn't be too intrusive. Finally, a JavaScript script that adds self-referential links to headings with anchors was added, which makes use of the jQuery library.

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29-Mar-2008

A guide to Israeli Free and Open Source Software Resources on the Internet was added to the site. Please let me know if you have any additions to it.

New fortune cookies have been added to the "shlomif", "shlomif-fav" and "joel-on-software" collections:

I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true - I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Bjarne Stroustrup quoted in http://xrl.us/bgzi4

New affiliations have been added to my contact page.

The HTML markup of some of the pages was cleaned up, and several bandwidth optimisations were made, so it should load a little faster.

New links were added to many pages.

The breadcrumbs trails in several pages were fixed.

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01-Mar-2008

Two new bits were added to the humour collection:

What do you mean by "WDYM"?

A list of Israeli open-source projects has been resurrected from a wiki that went offline. Since it was set up, several new projects have been added there.

My essay, "The Case for Drug Legalisation" has been updated with new sections and some typos were corrected.

New fortune cookies have been added to the shlomif collection, the Joel on Software collection, and the shlomif-fav (Shlomi Fish Favourties) collection,

New links were added to the against Apple page, the links against MySQL page, the page with links against Windows Vista, the Stop Using Internet Explorer page, and to the "Case for File Swapping" page.

Happy Reading!

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09-Feb-2008

Since the last update, the following changes took place:

1. Three small-scale humorous creations of mine are now available on the site: "The GPL is not Compatible with Itself" (formerly published on iglu.org.il), "Introducing RMS-Lint" (also formerly published there), and the new "Cracka's Paradise":

   A recent press conference of the Free Software Foundation confirmed the rumours that the GNU General Public License was found to be incompatible with itself. This newly discovered fact may actually cause a lot of disorder in the free software world in which most programs and libraries are licensed under this licence.

2. New fortunes were added to the "shlomif", "shlomif-fav" and "subversion" collections in the Fortune Cookies Files.

3. New links were added to the various Against-bad-software pages and to the links page.

4. There were several underlying changes to the content managemeng system and build system of the site. In many pages, breadcrumbs' trails are now better and more encompassing, and more pages were added to the section navigation menus.

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26-Jan-2008

Welcome to another edition of the Shlomi Fish's homepage news.

I added another question and answer to my FAQ, this time about my IRC parting message.

A funny Technion-originated and related bit (not by me and in Hebrew) was added to the humour section.

There are new fortune cookies in the fortune collection.

Two programs to perform a decomposition of a sine wave into square waves are now available in the open-source bits-and-bobs section.

New links have been added to the against Bad software pages, and the Stop Using Internet Explorer page was especially revamped:

Internet Explorer does not have a public, accessible bug tracker, similar to Mozilla's Bugzilla or what other similar browsers have. This makes bugs harder to report, reproduce, check and track and undermines the users and web developers.

There's a new page containing links to interviews with me and the weblogs page was updated.

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22-Dec-2007

Here's what is new on www.shlomifish.org since the last update.

Two new bits were added to the humour collection:

We don't know his cellphone number, and even if we did, we would tell you that we didn't know it.

Moreover and not-unusually, some new fortune cookies were added to the fortune cookies collection.

The new yjobs.co.il workaround for Mozilla-based browsers (such as Firefox) workaround may be of interest to Israeli-based job seekers.

Also on the software front, the XChat /nowplay script was updated to have Amarok support.

The anti-bad-software pages were updated with new links and with other updates.

There are new links in the links page.

Many non-validating pages (according to the W3C standards) were made to validate, and so most of the site should now be fully valid.

Have fun, everybody, and in case it's relevant - happy holidays!

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02-Oct-2007

Here are the new additions on Shlomi Fish's homesite since the last update.

Three new pages enumerating problems with bad software are now live:

1. Stop Using (and Teaching) C-Shell and Tcsh
2. Links against Windows Vista
3. Against MySQL

I'll appreciate any new additions to these pages.

New links have been added to the links page, and there are also new fortune cookies.

Finally, the "Slidy-Shlomif" JavaScript helper script has been added to the bits-and-bobs page.

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