Explorer Destroyer

I saw this a couple of days ago, and as a gag decided to add it to our site as at level 3. So, if you have Microsoft Internet Explorer, you would probably Not be reading these lines. Tee hee.

tags:[ Internet Explorer ] [ Microsoft ]

Canaan in Palestine?!

Looking at the definition for Canaan, I noticed their definiton specifies Canaan's location in Palestine. I promptly emailed them and brought to their attention the foundation of the State of Israel. I hope they will correct their dictionaries soon, as they seem to have been outdated for more than half a century now!

tags:[ Israel ]

WoW cards being sold!

Finally some good news about the Geekim Store. We started selling WoW Game Cards last week (friday), and since we had No orders until Thursday I decided to post an enquiry about it. It's not that I wanted to cry about no-one ordering; I was just frustrated because me and Dima (my partner) worked really hard to make these cards available and even though we didn't expect a rush for gold, we expected at least some positive response. What we got instead was a slap in the face in the form of forum comments saying that the price is too expensive, it's not worth ordering,etc. This was upsetting because we already discussed the target price and the chance of ordering with them, and they seemed happy about it Before we started the whole procedure.

So I made that post at the forum yesterday noon, and today we have 3 orders already. I am excited! We're really not going to make a fortune out of this - But the people who came in looking for the WoW cards practically scanned through the whole store. Our benefit was not only the ordering - It was mainly the publicity our products got.

I just hope this marks the beginning of a wave of orders.

tags:[ World of Warcraft ] [ Geekim ]

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After seeing a lot of Lorem Ipsum blah blah blah on many web pages and even in Pages I decided to google for the term and found this.

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Incredible. The page even contains a Loren Ipsum Generator!

tags:[ Lipsum ]

Two tickets please

Going to my parents' for the weekend, I had to take the bus. It was too crowded, so I had to somehow squeeze myself in near the driver.

Looking above him I saw a few labels, some asking passengers to move into the back of the bus (unfortunately, this was not possible at all), some saying that smoking is prohibited, and one of them saying what requires pay. Obviously grown people (aged older than 5 years) are required to pay, but the list named:

2 children (5 years or below)

Foldable Children Cart

Suitcase sized 60cm or more

A radio receiver

Two points about this: First, it looked genuine. More than that, I know that a friend of mine, carrying a parrots' cage, was charged a special passenger's pet seat (which cost the same as a regular passenger). Second, why the hell would they charge for a radio receiever? I can understand the other stuff... They're relatively big. But a radio receivers??

My assumption is that it was a really Really old label, and was printed when radio receivers were the size of a house. Or slightly less - Probably a seat or two. It's amazing what you can find on old buses, really.

tags:[ Bus ]

WoW cards

We've been trying to get WoW time cards to our store, to no avail. I contacted Blizzard, which directed me to Hed Arzi (who have no site), which, after more than a week of checking, decided they're not going to distribute these cards At All.

Unacceptable to us, we're now trying to get these cards from Blizzard themselves (or rather, their French distributers). I hope it works out - I really want the store to start selling these. Even if we barely make a profit, it's a good service to the WoW community in Israel - And the store is all about Israeli geeks and gamers, after all.

tags:[ Israel ] [ Blizzard ]

Joah has left the building

Joah has left Israel again... It's a sad time again.

It's time for waiting, finding flights - We can't be apart for too long, after all.

Already we have a flight planned for this Xmas. Luckily, all the Xtians are busy with their trees so us jews can wander around for our Hanukias! And our Joahs!

I miss Joah..

tags:[ Flight ]

General public opinion of stuff and things

I get really annoyed with general public opinions. I will give the newest rant about it, as an example, and about one of my favorite topics, the iPod.

After I bought my iPod, a lot of people asked me why I bought the iPod for. I said that it's a really good device for listening music with and that it wasn't expensive (I got it 25% off price on a sale) and that it did everything I wanted it to do. So then they asked if it can show pictures and show movies, and asked if it was colourful and gave an example of the iriver as an example for a colourful interface music player that could show photos.

When, around half a year later, iPod Photo came out with the ability to show photos and with a graphical interface, do you think people said to themselves "Wow.. So now it's good to buy.." ? Obviously not. What they would go on to do is claim that "This is just a gimick and it's useless". So what was so exciting about the iriver, I ask?

Let me just refer you to the "Top Seller" list of Amazon, both in Computers and in Electronics Audio & Video, and you could notice how the people vote with their wallets which is the better product.

tags:[ Apple ] [ iPod ]