Muli Ben-Yehuda's journal

Orna thinks this comment is sig worthy, but I don’t know. lj worthy, definitely.

– how do you know a Lisp book is any good? – it has bits of assembler in it.

It has both M68K and a Lisp Machine assembler code, in chapter 10, Low Level Efficiency issues. Highly recommended.

I need your recommendation, gentle readers, for an excellent, even sublime, alcoholic beverage. Money is of no account. Suggestions?

Yesterday, ladypine and me attended a baby shower, which was a lot more fun than I expected. During the course of the conversation, Orna mentioned that my good friend Oleg Goldshmidt has a link to a pagan site from his homepage. Knowing Oleg as I do, I expressed disbelief at this, we agreed to check when we’ll get home, and continued talking about other matters.

Later, when we got home, Orna went to check. Before she fired up mozilla, however, we made a bet. The loser will buy the winner a bottle of the alcoholic beverage of their choice. Needless to say, I won, and now I need your help to decide!

My current runner up is Chivas Regal, but I’m open to ideas.

I see gby and company have moved into the new office, in Netanya. I’m giving a talk to Eddie A.‘s Linux Development Workshop on Tuesday, in Tel Aviv University. I live in Haifa. Netanya, for those of you who are not well versed in .il geography, is right in the middle between Haifa and Tel Aviv. Maybe I’ll have time to stop by on the way? work has been insane lately, not sure I can afford the time off.

Congratulations on your semi-anniversary, Gilad and Limor!

meta blogging

• I’ve been somewhat quiet on the blog front lately. This is not
  because I no longer have anything to say; I’m still as wordy as
  ever.
• One reason I’ve grown quiet is that posting to both livejournal and advogato (via
  ljablog) was
  making me question the suitability of whatever it was that I
  wanted to post to both. Too often, I decided that it
  wasn’t.
• Another reason is having been syndicated by both kerneltrap
  and planetdebian. Same
  thing, are my entries really suitable? guess not.

• Now, however, this blog is no longer syndicated on either
  kerneltrap (technical
  difficulties that could not be surmounted), or planet
  debian (I asked to be removed).

• Therefore, as of now, I will post to advogato only when
  appropriate. The “heavy stuff”, so to speak. I will post to lj
  when feeling like it – the “fluffy stuff”, so to speak. Anyone
  who wants to syndicate
  this is more than welcome to, but I give no warranty.

• It’s good to be back!