tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30703100953494563512024-03-13T22:30:17.641-04:00Baal Tshuva SlowlyNebach case...Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-67638928344822772212010-12-17T13:23:00.000-05:002010-12-17T13:23:53.494-05:00Vista not booting, black screen with cursor blinkingHaven't been around in a while, but this could be useful for others. The following just happened to my wife's computer - after restart it would get to the black screen with cursor blinking and nothing would happen past that. No F8, no F11.<br />
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After inserting Windows CD and rebooting the computer, I've got to the repair screen. Automatic system repair would not help. System restore to an earlier point - no effect either.<br />
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All of that has lead me to a single assumption - boot files/sector have been corrupted.<br />
After some googling, I discovered following page: <a href="http://www.troublefixers.com/unable-to-boot-in-windows-vista-windows-boot-configuration-data-file-is-missing-required-information/">Unable to boot in windows vista- windows boot configuration data file is missing required information</a> which explained everythign.<br />
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Just in case I am copying here the steps of second method, which helped me:<br />
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1. Boot from your windows vista DVD.<br />
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2. Click the options which says Repair your computer.<br />
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3. Select the operation system and click next.<br />
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4. In System recovery options, click command prompt.<br />
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5. Now type Bootrec /RebuildBcd, and then press ENTER.<br />
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6. Restart your computer after it finishes.<br />
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<b>Emergency Tip:</b> If the Bootrec.exe tool cannot locate any missing Windows installations in step 5.<br />
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Type the following commands in the order from top to bottom.<br />
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1. Bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup and press enter<br />
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2. ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old and press enter<br />
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3. Bootrec /rebuildbcd and press enter<br />
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Hope this would be useful.Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-41217493884258301082010-06-18T14:05:00.000-04:002010-06-18T14:05:55.855-04:00"The Three Terrors"<object style="background-image:url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/VmffgIqlAYA/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VmffgIqlAYA&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VmffgIqlAYA&hl=en_US&fs=1" width="425" height="344" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-58032650825385816692010-03-24T11:39:00.000-04:002010-03-24T11:39:51.918-04:00Shidduch survey (via Bad4)via <a href="http://badforshidduchim.wordpress.com/">Bad for Shidduchim</a><br />
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We have a request from a Ph.D. candidate:<br />
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Kiki Beth Ehrenpreis, M.A.<br />
PhD Candidate, Clinical Psychology (Health Emphasis)<br />
Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology<br />
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University<br />
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She wants your shidduch experiences quantified for science to analyze. Help her out! Go to her survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/shidduchsurvey and tell her about your dating. Heck – she’s practically a psychologist, in case you need it. Afterwards shoot her an email and be entered into a raffle for a iPod Touch. ( orthodoxjewishdatingstudy@gmail.com)Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-11675949300656448132010-03-17T00:52:00.001-04:002010-03-17T00:52:20.893-04:00Dude... Wait, what?<a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/01/28/dude-4/"><img src="http://icanhascheezburger.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/funny-pictures-kitten-is-confused.jpg" alt="funny pictures of cats with captions" title="funny-pictures-kitten-is-confused" class="mine_5359164" /></a><br />see more <a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com">Lolcats and funny pictures</a>Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-47760478623767529182010-02-18T07:04:00.000-05:002010-02-18T07:04:00.077-05:00Stupid Questions and Research<a href="http://blog.ookamikun.com/">Moshe</a> recently asked me some dev question on the IM and I didn't solutions from the top of my hat so I made a small research and found answer which fitted his needs perfectly.<br />So when he thanked me I answered that I love doing research which confused him because he thought I hated it based on the <a href="http://baaltshuvaslowly.blogspot.com/2009/06/thoughts.html">post I wrote</a> some time ago.<br /><br />So I figured that I had to clarify this.<br /><br />I hate when people ask stupid questions which they can simply think of or just google it. Obvious stuff. Something that takes less time googling than asking me and me googling it and then answering it.<br /><br />At the same time questions which imply learning of something new or finding solution for a reasonable problem are something I love to do. This is usually programming stuff, something you may apply in the future again. These kinds of researches make me feelDude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-28936493826571053272010-02-15T13:29:00.000-05:002010-02-15T13:29:00.257-05:00Things I needThere's a list of things I need but never get a chance to get for various reasons. Here are some of these things:<br /><br />- Apple Macbook Pro (13" or 15" - undecided) or MacBook Air to make my backback lighter<br />- USB 3G modem + monthly plan<br />- 24" screen (currently have 19")<br />- Bunch of books<br />- Carrrr<br /><br />This is not a full list obviously but I believe some of these things could've made my life much easier and more productive (such as 3G modem or car)Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-83944588899070098462010-02-14T22:20:00.002-05:002010-02-14T22:25:10.518-05:00It just hit me!I was listening to the song which I heard on the radio for the first time when I was in yeshiva in 2004 and it just hit me how far away that was! When you grow time doesn't seem to be so far compared to your childhood (90-es for me) but sometimes you realize that 5 years could also be such a long amount of time...<br /><br />PS. Most of you probably don't know that my memories are mostly associative and I usually use music to remember moments from past. I can still clearly see moments from around 95-96 when I listen to certain band. You get the idea...Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-3556476387186709782010-02-12T00:12:00.002-05:002010-02-12T00:18:33.089-05:00Girl buried alive for talking to boys<blockquote>The girl, who has been identified only by the initials <span style="font-weight:bold;">MM</span>, was found in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-metre hole dug under a chicken pen outside her home in Kahta, in the south-eastern province of Adiyaman.</blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/04/girl-buried-alive-turkey">From here</a>Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-81361387602363869262010-01-05T00:19:00.005-05:002010-01-07T17:03:09.214-05:00Breaking the ice<p><a href="http://www.jewishwedding.info/"><img border="0" alt="I'm Engaged Pin" src="http://i.chossonkallah.com/badges/engaged_125x125.jpg"></a> I've been avoiding this blog a while. I've been avoiding it for 3 months. I avoided to post about unexpected meetings of other bloggers such as meeting <a href="http://collectivisticindividualism.blogspot.com/">Childish</a> (MAZAL TOVVVV!!!!) by <a href="http://blog.ookamikun.com/">Moshe's</a> son brith and meeting first blogger in my life (I knew Moshe from long before so it doesn't count), <b>upd</b> <ins><a href="http://jacobdajew.blogspot.com/">Jacob da Jew</a> who helped me to find what I was looking for so much desperately on that day,</ins> and getting stuck in the Marriott elevator with <a href="http://curiousjew.blogspot.com/">Chana</a>. I wanted to post funny keywords people come with to my blog from search. There was my blog's anniversary not so long time ago and I avoided writing about it too.</p><p>There been a reason for it and no time for it. Now it's time to break the ice...</p><br><br><br><p>This Sunday I also broke the ice - I AM ENGAGED NOW!</p><p>To prevent many questions. She's The one. She's Russian (so am I). She's frum for few years, BT. We are same age. We share same views on many things.</p><p>I guess that's it for now. :)</p>Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-16290468321919927072009-10-08T00:04:00.001-04:002009-10-08T00:04:59.236-04:00Window walkingThis will be short. I went to kosher subway today to eat in the sukkah. When I brought my stuff in the sukkah I found that there's a table but no chair. So I walk out the sukkah and go straight to the first chair I see.. Boom! It takes me some moments to realize what has happened... I hear girls sitting in the sukkah burst into laugh. Then I realize that I actually walked into the window instead of the door! Next thing I understand that all peopes' attention is on me now.<br />It was the first time in my life I've been bleeding from my nose. So was it the time when I realized I don't know how to stop the blood - remember people saying to turn the head up and I remember people saying not to do that.. Boruch Hashem I have high quality blood - I think it took me less than 5 minutes to stop bleeding.<br />At least I made people laugh and laughed myself with them when I was back in the sukkah.<br /><br />It reminds me of how I walked into the tree last year. I took few steps back, said "oh, I am sorry!" and only then realized it was actually a tree, not a person :) I didn't hit it that bad though.<br /><br />So people - don't trust your eyes and always make sure you're going in right direction! A gute moed!!!<br /><br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br />Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-30907384474930766352009-10-01T00:33:00.002-04:002009-10-01T01:24:53.286-04:00Don't judge me<p>I hate ranting. I try not to discuss what happens in Jewish world. I ain't an angel myself. If I want to vent there's enough stuff I can vent about myself. But...</p><p>But there's one day in the year when I get depressed not because of myself. It's the day when I go buying lulav, esrog and whole lots of stuff related here.</p><p>While esrog is what usually makes the price it's pretty easy to get through this challenge. All you have to do is to find an appealing, good looking, right color, nice/ideal form and shape, no black dots, no scratches from leaves, pitim/no pitim and so on. With these simple rules you have almost found good esrog. It's harder to check all boxes and to find one but at least you can take every one and look at it yourself first. After you found something you like, just go to the man checking esrogim and show it to him:<p><p>- Ummm, nice esrog! Really perfect one!.. {short pause, looking at esrog with magnifying glass} This would be expensive one, are you ok with budget?<br>- Yeah, how much is it?<br>- Where did you find it?<br>- There {pointing at the box aside from the main table}<br>- Look, I really can't give it for less that $$<br>- Sure no problem</p><p>This little conversation doesn't take longer than 1 or 2 minutes and both are happy: one got what he was looking for, another sold it for good money and helped a fellow jew.</p><p>Now you move to lulavim. The law is the law - don't touch the top two inches or you will have to take it regardless of it's quality. Accepted. You stand aside waiting for your time, not touching anything. Consider these two conversations:</p><p><strong>First:</strong><br>{sales guy stands, holds a lulav in his hands, looks at it's top, looks at your esrog}<br>- How much are you paying for it?<br>- $$<br>- {half second pause} this is a very good lulav {hands you lulav he's holding}<br>{both are happy - one got what he was looking for, another didn't take much time and helped a fellow jew</p><p><strong>Second:</strong><br>{sales guy stands, holds a lulav in his hands, looks at it's top, looks at you, hands you lulav he was looking at}<br>- Here's good one for <em>you</em>! It's kosher O-U, O-K, Star-K - it's kosher!<br>- but...<br>- Don't look at it too much you'll get ain horah at it!</p><p>Obviously every year I get into similar situation described in the second conversation. Both take less than a minute, but second one make's me feel everytime like I am less Jewish than people around me. Look - I am not getting esrog for $10 although even here you can make nice conversation. I am paying $80 which is much higher than regular price in the store ($50-60). I didn't just to be upselled - I am paying for expensive stuff, obviously I don't need anyone to run around me, but at least treat me as everyone else in the store. If I wear jeans and color shirt it doesn't tell you much about me. Well, I can understand you are tired, but I was not hanging out the whole week with girls and going to clubs nor did I not come hour before Sukkos starts - I came in advance and I am also tired, I also just came from work.</p><p>What bothers me most is that it doesn't take you much effort to say something nicely, <em>regardless</em> of what you think. It doesn't take you longer either. In fact you may get rid of me faster as I will feel that you didn't just give me the first more or less kosher lulav, but that you gave me something good compared to when you make me feel like I am not given good stuff and you make me want to argue with you!</p><p>I just wanted to add that I really feel bad saying all this stuff about a yid, esspecially two days after Yom Kippur, but it's not my fault that Sukkos comes right after it...</p>Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-17892433647923427722009-09-27T14:19:00.001-04:002009-09-27T14:20:41.095-04:00Shidduch hiatusThe title says it - I am officially going on shiduch hiatus for uknown period of time.<br /><br />New year is considered a time for new decisions and while oter ones were easy to go for, decide and even start applying some of them, this one was a much harder one to accept. <br /><br />I've been doing very bad from religious standpoint for quite a while with ups and downs but I was not successful at getting on the right track so far. Wishes and thoughts that I will be doing everything right when I find the girl as that will push me to be doing things the right way - that's all just dreams and not a right approach to things.<br /><br />So it took me 10 days to decide. This means that I will refuse any option except two which are ongoing for the past few month -just because I doubt they will happen anyway. I will also try to shut any talks on this topic directly and indirectly related to me.<br /><br />Hopefully it won't take me too long to overcome myself, my will and my yetzer but that will not happen tomorrow so all these things tend to cross the line between truth and hypocrisy.<br /><br />Let's see what will come out of this.<br /><br />PS. This is my last chance to ask for forgiveness from anyone I have offended anyhow, lied to, said loshon horah about or did something else that I must ask forgieness for. Please forgive me. <br />Have an easy (and meaningful) fast! Gmar chatimah tovah!<br /><br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhoneDude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-68462974144003342662009-09-25T16:27:00.000-04:002009-09-25T17:08:11.374-04:00Older is more attractive or age is out of questionIt's been long time since I've noticed for the first time that I get attracted more to girls that are older me than to younger ones. No, I don't discriminate by age, in fact I don't care much if ny wife will be 2 years younger or 3 years older than me if we match in everything else.<br /><br />However recently I realized that it's not just coincidential that I was interested in few girls that are older than me and in much smaller number of who was younger. Talking to Moshe on IM I named whoever I was able to remember from the top of my hat and it came out as 3:1!!! Seriously I was able to name 6 girls older than me and only 2 younger. Besides that my very first shidduch date was almost year older than I (I didn't count her though).<br /><br />May be it's a sign? <br />Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-34102304695649636452009-09-21T23:15:00.005-04:002009-09-21T23:48:56.546-04:00Superpower Memes follow-up<p>So <a href="http://materialmaidel.blogspot.com/2009/09/mms-meme-superpower.html">over</a> <a href="http://alta-b.blogspot.com/2009/09/meme-my-superpower.html">the</a> <a href="http://chassidsavoda.blogspot.com/2009/09/meme-superpowers.html">past</a> <a href="http://badforshidduchim.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/meme-superpower-choice/">week</a> a <a href="http://shocked-avi.blogspot.com/2009/09/superpower-meme.html">bunch</a> of <a href="http://myinkstainedhands.blogspot.com/2009/09/superwoman.html">bloggers</a> <a href="http://subjugatedwife.blogspot.com/2009/09/subsuperwife.html">decided</a> to <a href="http://fruminsouthflorida.blogspot.com/2009/09/superpower-meme.html">speak</a> up <a href="http://ablobofsomethingdifferent.blogspot.com/2009/09/super-power-meme-sd-is-disappointment.html">about</a> <a href="http://thejewishside.blogspot.com/2009/09/super-new-year-happy-blogversary.html">superpower</a> they <a href="http://jabberwocky-jessica.tumblr.com/post/189618945/pretending-im-a-superman">would</a> <a href="http://mikeinmidwood.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-meme.html">want</a> to <a href="http://jacobdajew.blogspot.com/2009/09/superpower-meme.html">have</a>. While <a href="http://blog.ookamikun.com/">some</a> <a href="http://curiousjew.blogspot.com/">others</a> decided to skip... <span style="font-style:italic;">(this is not a full list so sorry if I didn't link to you)</span></p><p>This erev Rosh Hashonah I was sitting in the bus on my way to Lakewood and I was rethinking many things that happened in the past few days. And for some reason I remembered about superpower memes that were going around.</p><p>While it is clear that my superpower was 100% evil driven, most of other people had their wishes based either on simple self-related topics or on better-to-be ones. So I was thinking about bunch of similar better-to-be superpowers which were intended to be able to better understand people, or to know what could hurt someone and get around that and so on. And that brought me to realization why we don't have these simple and so-great-have abilities which we could use everyday for good of the world. Why didn't Hashem give us something what we could use to help people around us, to be better people ourselves? Why did He decide that what we have is good for us and we don't need any better?</p><p>I think the answer is simple. Because as we could easily use these powers for good, we would have a bigger yetzer hora pushing us to use there abilities for bad. Do you realize how easy it would be to hurt a person when you know painful topic for them? Do you realize how easy it would be to do so many bad things knowing so much about surrounding us world?</p><p>So what I thought was that we should thank Hashem that neither we nor others have these powers that could bring more harm in to this shaky world! <span style="font-weight:bold;">Thank You, Hashem, for not letting to sin more by limiting our abilities to what we have!</span></p>Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-72107423604669722152009-09-17T00:33:00.006-04:002009-09-17T01:46:26.211-04:00Must read! Dude's meme about superpower he wants.<p><a href="http://materialmaidel.blogspot.com/2009/09/mms-meme-superpower.html">Material Madel</a> tagged me so my opus is following</p><p>Rule number 1: Read the rules. <br>Rule number 2: Write one superpower you would like to have and what you would do with it. <br>Rule number 3: Write why you chose that super power over everything else. <br>Rule number 4: Tag and link 7 people, and write why you think they will have an interesting meme. <br>Rule number 5: fix your broken links.</p><p>Here we go:</p><p>Rule 1 - check.</p><br><p>Before I start I should mention that MM is really observant about my pic. She says:</p><blockquote><p>Dude with Hat - because with his profile pic, he's already got the whole 'mysterious spy' thing going on - and that intrigues me.</p></blockquote><p>With her help my spy career is now over because you can't be a spy if others know this. Thanks MM! Very generous from you!</p><p>Anyway the superpower I really want is to be able to <em>know everything about anyone I want when I want to</em>. I.e. I don't want my head to be piled up with info about everyone. I want info to be well categorized by person, time and action with description/photo/video/audio recording and me to have easy access to this info. For example I could query for what shoes did MM wear yesterday around afternoon? Or why does <a href="http://badforshidduchim.wordpress.com/">Bad4</a> call herself Bad4? (well i know why, but it's still a good example) Or what did <a href="http://myinkstainedhands.blogspot.com/">Hannah</a> write in her personal paper diary today? Or what did <a href="http://blog.ookamikun.com/">Moshe</a> ate for his lunch on August 5th? (not that I care much, but good example). Or list of all girls from NYC under 23 <a href="http://alta-b.blogspot.com/">Altie</a> was hanging out with when she was in Seminary... I think the idea is clear.</p><p>And if this whole thing about database is kinda over-thought, knowing stuff about people <em>is</em> real. Some of you know how I've found your home addresses, phone numbers. So don't be shocked if I call you at 3AM or knock on your door at 11PM. I am 99% sure I haven't opened email box of anyone who reads this blog so I am safe to talk about that... But I used to do that too. Stopped last year. Some of you know details.. Looking into other's windows is a really not nice thing to do so I don't have binoculars. But be sure I'll check you out in the mirror reflection of train car window (I am serious!)</p><p>Don't ask me though to do that for you - I won't. The only time when I succeed is when I am highly motived to find that info, otherwise I won't find much if person hides well.</p><p>Rule 2 - check</p><p>Rule 3 - check!</p><ol><li><a href="http://myinkstainedhands.blogspot.com">Hannah</a> - so what did you write in your private diary today, Hannah?</li><li><a href="http://badforshidduchim.wordpress.com/">Bad4</a> - I know already why you call yourself Bad4, but you are too successful with your blog with such bad name, so you are definitely hiding something in your left pocket (which you don't have because you wear skirt :P)</li><li><a href="http://fruminsouthflorida.blogspot.com/">MAK</a> - I discovered you too recently to know too much about you, so you still have a chance to do some work for me and prevent me stumbling on things you don't want me to know too well...</li><li><a href="http://blog.ookamikun.com/">Moshe</a> - not that I want to know what you ate on August 5th for lunch (and I doubt you remember it), but some things about you are really unclear to me!</li><li><a href="http://ablobofsomethingdifferent.blogspot.com/">Something Different</a> - why do I remember about you every time I cross E 12th and Ave M? (I have associative memory so ya know...)</li><li><a href="http://thejewishside.blogspot.com/">The Babysitter</a> - your name suggests that there's some other dark side of you that I don't know about yet... Are you obsessed with robots because it gives you full control over them?</li><li><a href="http://curiousjew.blogspot.com/">Chana</a> - do you have to do anything with Viznitz? Just asking...</li></ol><p>Rule 4 - check!</p><p>Do I have any broken links? I am lazy, I don't even have a full blogroll, nor do I have a normal link section. So, behold! Point me at broken link and I'll fix it.</p><p>Rule 5 - check!</p>Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-55791746117283134302009-09-16T23:03:00.004-04:002009-09-17T00:13:56.179-04:00SOLVED : Rosh Hashona dilema, need advice - III<p>This is a follow up on my previous <a href="http://baaltshuvaslowly.blogspot.com/2009/09/rosh-hashona-dilema-need-advice.html">two</a> <a href="http://baaltshuvaslowly.blogspot.com/2009/09/rosh-hashona-dilema-need-advice-ii.html">posts</a></p><p>So I spoke to my rov on tuesday, he said I should go to Lakewood and that I should sit down and talk to my family (tet-a-tet, not to all at the same time) and to clear up the confusion.</p><p>Spoke to my mom and she said that everything is ok, hope it is. Haven't seen my brother though, so he found news from mom. That's not the fortunate option, but I wouldn't discuss these things on the phone - I am not a phone person and everyone knows it. So I am still not sure what he thinks has made me to go to Lakewood. Based on the short phone conversation I had with him yesterday/today he's worried something is wrong but I am not saying that. That's my personality - I rarely discuss personal stuff with family and he knows it. He noticed that many times and he mentioned that too.</p><p>So now I feel myself guilty that I've left them without an option at the last moment. As of today I could've had my mom going to four seudos (thanks to <a href="http://blog.ookamikun.com">Moshe</a>), now she goes only to two because she won't go alone. My brother didn't sound so happy either. Plus I told him I'll cover expenses on stuff that was supposed to be brought to hosts, now he doesn't want me to do so because I don't go. I think like I'm getting too deep into details I shouldn't be..</p><p>So all in all everyone has to be happy and no one really is. Otherwise everything is cool. I looking forward to visit Lakewood after 3 years of hiatus and hopefully meet some people I know there.</p>Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-7670985094147776742009-09-14T00:24:00.004-04:002009-09-17T00:14:51.115-04:00Rosh Hashona dilema, need advice - II<p>Before I get to the follow up on this topic I'd like to make few remarks about <a href="http://baaltshuvaslowly.blogspot.com/2009/09/rosh-hashona-dilema-need-advice.html">my previous post</a>:</p><ul><li>First of all - I do not reread what I write. Whether it's an email, reply or blog post - I take it as if I was talking to person using my mouth - what's said could not be unsaid and what mistakes made (grammar or orthographic) could not be fixed. Not that I am really so principal, it's just that I'm kind of impatient to hit Send/Submit/Publish button. From this one come two more remarks:</li><li>I did not intend to show my family bad in any way. I totally understand that their lives are their lives and mine is mine and I do not try to mix to possible extent. The only thing that currently implies on everyone at home is kosher kitchen (with very lenient things sometimes IMO). It is easy to say and this doesn't go that easy on practice but getting through this you get to understand more and try to control yourself better so do I try too.</li><li>Nor did I intend to say something like "oh I'm so humble that I can't ask you, so please get my hint and act!". Although it does sound so it's not meant to. Anyway I must thank <a href="http://estinreveritas.blogspot.com/">Dina</a> for acting :) Thank you, Dina! I will crash one day into your seuda! (can't find better words, sorry!)</li></ul><p>While all this said sounds very pathos and snobbish, the purpose of this post is to get update on what has happened during past three days</p><br /><p>So as I said before this was my third Shabbos staying at home. Usually we have my little nephews staying Friday night and Shabbos, past two Shabbosim they were by us on other days. This Shabbos they were back on schedule. I figured that I'd wait till they go to sleep (for good reason so not be uncomfortable myself and to get less questions from kids which I wouldn't be able to explain easily to them) and then come and have my seuda. Went to shul, davened, found an interesting Chumash with commentaries of Tur, read entire parsha with all comments (probably haven't ever done so, although this parsha was really short and I read only Vayelech by mistake). Then I looked at the clock, it was only 9:15 so I figured I'd go to my yeshiva, see if I meet there anyone I know or just sit and repeat what i was learning when I was there.</p><p>On my way I changed my mind and went to Ohr Izchak yeshiva since they have artscroll gemoras. Then I figured that last time I went to this yeshiva on Friday night it was closed, so I decided that if it's closed I'll go zigzaging around the block like I do sometimes. Then I saw the door was wide opened. When I almost turned to walk into the door I saw there few kids and their mommy. I was shocked as I did not expect to see women in that section of yehsiva at that time, so I turned back and continued walking by the block. I haven't passed the end of building yet when it started to rain so I had to turn back and walk into yeshiva. It turned that there was some one's bar mitzvah seuda in the dining room and bais medrash was empty.</p><p>Over the time I've learned through gemora Sukkah first amud with all commentaries, rereading by few times if I wasn't getting the meaning, getting back to confirm and summarize details. It was 10:something and I figured it's time to start walking back. But I didn't even walk out from yeshiva seeing strong rain outside - I turned back to bais medrash. I did not take my rain coat so I had to stay in if I didn't want to ruin my suit. This time I did not want to do gemora already so I started looking through english book and my eye caught the word "relationships" - i looked at the book, its cover said "<a href="http://www.artscroll.com/Books/sreh.html">SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIPS AT HOME, AT WORK AND WITH FRIENDS</a>" by Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski. This is one of the topics I am always interested in for many reasons so I took the book and started reading. I stopped around 11, figuring that if it's not raining it's definitely time to move. So I closed the book, purposely did not put it back ("who knows may be someone will find it interesting tomorrow, too?") and walked out - it did not rain so I walked back home.</p><p>On the way back I wished everyone to be sleeping when I come home. My mom was not sleeping and she was shocked to find that I haven't eaten anything yet. This was my biggest mistake - to do something noticeably. At the time when I was walking back I definitely did not want to have anyone even thinking why I did not come earlier. Rain was my alibi, but it was not that good alibi as my mom knew it was not raining all the time and also I did not put it all that way right - I am a good thinker and I usually find ways how to get around with things I don't want to touch, but my strategy often sucks at details that I haven't thought through in advance.</p><p>Next morning my mom approached me when I was getting ready to go to shul and told me that "every one makes mistakes sometimes and that I should also be forgiving" clearly meaning that she took my yesterday's act as "being offended by our previous talk" which was not, or at least was not that bad to the point as she took it. For me this was a clear flag that it was my big mistake yesterday.</p><p>I've met someone I knew at shul next to my house and he generously invited me to him. Here I was not say "no" for a bunch of reasons so I went to him. When I came back home my brother asked me if I ate and I said yes, he asked me if I was sure - that was another flag of my fault - my act was discussed between him and my mom.</p><p>Now I really did not want them to anyhow discuss this because it had a high risk of getting me into situation of them feeling guilty and doing me chessed by making me stay at home for Rosh Hashonah by any means. This was not what I wanted and this was not what I intended. But this is what I got.</p><p>Sunday morning my brother called me to let me know that we're going for two seudos to his friend, including my brothers kids for one of them (they were there before and they liked it). Next question was like a punch:</p><p> - Will you find place for yourself by yourself or you need help?<br> - Yes, by myself.<br> - Are you sure? - Yes.</p><p>Now I am really between two fires because from one side I already made my mind to go to Lakewood for better, from other side I am here in front of the fact that everything is planned and there's a big feeling that it was arranged for me, not for them.</p><p>When my brother called I haven't spoken to my rov yet, so I didn't even know how to react. I called my rov but he did not pick up his phone - he was probably busy. Next time when I was about to call him it was 12AM in Israel so I sent him SMS instead. I am still not sure if SMS work between US and Israel so I don't know if he ever received it, but I had never gotten response. Now I plan to call him tomorrow morning from work and tell him over this whole story.....</p><br><p>This is one of those situations when I will learn a lot about how to not handle things, how to plan better strategy and how to act at certain moments. But this is not the situation I like to be in.</p>Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-27374765519897543342009-09-11T00:15:00.002-04:002009-09-11T00:37:31.660-04:00Rosh Hashona dilema, need advice<p>So here's the problem - my family is uncomfortable with me spending Shabbosim at home (i.e. having meal at home) because this restricts them to what they feel like doing on saturdays. While this was survivable for the past 2 Shabbosim, it seems that upcoming Rosh Hashonah won't be like that since it's not one but two days of restrictions (while I am present at home).</p><p>From my side I've been always uncomfortable to spend Shabbos at home so for about 4 years I was always away from home most of the time (even slept in a different place until after this year's Yom Kippur). Even when I started sleeping at home I would not come home earlier than 11PM, including winter time.</p><p>There were some things going on in my shul recently which made me really uncomfortable coming there. Nothing personal, mostly global stuff, but I hate politics and I hate people changing accepted rules and I hate some other stuff going on there for the past few months - so I figured I'd stay away. I spent last two Shabbosim at home and plan to do so on this upcoming one.</p><p>So I just had this conversation which started from if I am at home for this Shabbos and ended where I am for Rosh Hashona. Until now I had two options:</p><ul><li><strong>Preferable</strong> - sleep at home and find places where to go for seudot (something I really hate to do - asking if I can come for seuda, probably doing so for the first time) and going with family for at least one seuda to my brother's friend - this is a key for staying home, because there will be at least something going on for the family plus according to my brother it's already a tradition that we go to his friend for Rosh Hashonah seuda as we did so for the past few years. If this was not in plans I would definitely get away to other town</li><li><strong>Preferable for my family, convenient for me</strong> - go to Lakewood where I was invited to yesterday. Convenient for me because I don't have to ask people to attend to their seuda which I really feel uncomfortable doing. Plus it will be hosted by one Rabbi who I really like to go to for Shabbosim; so also highly enjoyable. Preferable for my family as they are not limited in anything due to lack of my presence.</li></ul><br><br><p>So I am really confused now because I was thinking to stay in brooklyn for my family to participate at least some events (I was also hoping that may be I'd arrange other meals where they'd go too), but now I am being kind of nicely asked to disappear for the Holiday. Any ideas what should I do?</p><p>PS. I wish I had my Rav here in US so he'd be really into all details and would've gave me right advice, but he lives on the Holy Land.</p>Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-67293203486697559722009-08-04T11:43:00.002-04:002009-08-04T11:43:00.674-04:00Wonderful things in Jewish Laws<p><em>this post was written few days earlier and was scheduled to publish itself automatically</em></p> <p>Learning Hilchot Krias Shma I thinking about two amazing things.</p> <p>First is Shaa Zmanit. What a clever thing! Just imagine our laws would be based on the regular clock. What a mess would be when people started using day light saving times! All our laws would have to be rewritten accordingly to the new clock system and we would have to follow one set of laws in the winter and another set of laws in the summer. Now add here that there are two jews and three opinions which is especially true in our days - during the last hundred years we've lost the last Poiskim who could set a psak din which everyone, or at least a major group of jews would follow.</p> <p>Second thing is great for those who get up and daven after 7 o'clock in the morning (like me). Just a hundred years ago in many places zman Krias Shma would pass before 7AM (!) in the summer. After the day light saving times were introduced summer timess moved one hour forward, so now zman Krias Shma is before 8AM in the same places without violation of any halochos!! Isn't that wonderful?</p>Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-70326670576830252322009-08-02T15:17:00.007-04:002009-08-03T01:09:05.245-04:00Meme: 7 things i like<p>Recently, <a href="http://myinkstainedhands.blogspot.com/2009/07/few-of-my-favorite-things.html">Ink Staned Hands</a> tagged me in a meme about 7 things i like.<p> <p>Well my list will be simple and predictable, but it won't be ordered by preference:</p> <ol> <li><strong>Music</strong> - this one for me like cigarettes for smokers. I smoke more than two packs a day of music on a 6 days a week term.</li> <li><strong>Make people happy</strong> - I just like to know that I've made a person happy. Sometimes I would even pay big money (read expensive presents) just to know I made a person to smile.</li> <li><strong>To walk</strong> - I can walk miles and enjoy it if there's someone to walk with (dogs don't count)</li> <li><strong>Watch people and/or know everything about the person</strong> - this one is tricky: besides just watching people on the train or in Starbucks, I've learned to look at people via anything what has a clear reflection if there's no mirror available (for example train windows) so people don't think I am staring at them. Sometimes I've done even worse things like reading someones emails but that was in a long past</li> <li><strong>Trains</strong> - both real and toy trains. Every time I to New Jersey for Shabbos I start enjoying the trip the moment I find a seat next to the window. I love watching tracks, passing by trains, terrain and also bridges and houses. I wish toy trains were cheaper because even small models require few hundreds of dollars to be spent in a first investment</li> <li><strong>Photography</strong> - this one is more of an unreleased feature of me, but it's in my genes - my father was a profession and very good photographer. When I've got my current camera few years ago I was doing hundreds of photos per event. Then after I started my current job many things have changed very significantly and it was one of the reasons I started taking much less photos (also I started to participate much less events). Currently I am looking to replace my camera with two: smaller one (preferably Canon SD750 but it's not on sale anywhere anymore and there's no analog for it even though I like Panasonics more than Canons) and DSLR (some beginner level camera, Nikon preferably, if not then Canon)</li><li><strong>Tech stuff</strong> - it would be hypocritical not to mention this. I has a large share in my life. May be too large. But that's an instrument that helps me earn living and give maaser... Also geeky things</li></ol> <p>I just wanted to answer to <a href="http://ablobofsomethingdifferent.blogspot.com/">Something Different</a> why many bloggers do memes - it's a lot about links to you and to your friends... Also Wikipedia has an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme">interesting view</a> on memes</p> <p>Now I'll have to tag seven people here, but it will be hard because most of them were tagged by others already. Let's try with <a href="http://sheffele.blogspot.com/">Little Sheep</a> (it couldn't be that you don't have anything you like, LS!), Not <a href="http://badforshidduchim.wordpress.com">Bad for Shidduchim</a>, <a href="http://frumcollegegirl.blogspot.com/">Frum College Girl</a>, <a href="http://shidduchblues.blogspot.com/">tembow</a>, recently married <a href="http://sporadicintelligence.wordpress.com/">too young to teach</a>, <a href="http://hadassahsabo.wordpress.com/">Hadassah</a> and not so material <s>or not so maidel</s> <a href="http://materialmaidel.blogspot.com/">material maidel</a>.</p><br /><br /><p>Done!</p>Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-78848312111226470622009-06-18T23:12:00.004-04:002009-06-18T23:19:40.747-04:00ThoughtsOver the time I've learned to find answers on my own. Today it's as simple as searching Google, before it was some reading.<br />I knew there was noone to understand or to know the topic. Or there would be somebody willing to help but they'd make it more complicated so you'll end up looking for answer yourself anyway. Why waste time?<br />The only questions that I let myself to slip these days are stupidest ones that I find answer on as soon as I ask the question.<br /><br />This is how I learned computers in and out, this is how I learned programming, this is how I had success at jobs over past few years. This is why I hate people asking questions that they may find answer for faster than it will take me to hear their question...<br />This is why I hate people creating a problem and bothering me before they find they could take care of it easily by themselves. Just a little brain work.Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-16487965596382472462009-05-17T16:17:00.002-04:002009-05-17T16:33:20.384-04:001 reason not to host jQuery by GoogleThere are tons of articles on the web that tell you why you should load JS libraries from Google. All of them are based on the trust that Google never goes down, never fails. It's a true assumption - they have so many data centers in so many places around the world that if one of them goes down next one will just pick up traffic and users will not notice anything. <br /><br />This week this belief was turned down. On Thursday, May 14th Google services were very slow or inaccessible for at least two hours in the morning. Some experienced this for even longer time. Some felt like apocalipsis is here - the Great Google is not working...<br /><br />Basically we could survive without some of Google services - at least there's Yahoo.<br />But for those who had their sites depend on Google it was a big disaster! Forget about Google Analytics that almost everyone has on their site - this is usually loaded in the bottom of the page code so it didn't have much of impact on performance. But if you have used one of Google Ajax Libraries - you'd probably load that one in the header of your page. Or Google Ajax Search which is usually located on the top of the page. This is where things were going wrong! Lucky people like I had a high chance that their page will never load because browser locks all processes on the page while any JS script is loading....<br /><br />What did we learn from here? There's no ideal service that doesn't fail. Until this Thursday I could barely understand why my company would not go for Google hosted code - "If we fail there's not much you could do. If Google fails - you're f**ked up!". It's better to depend on yourself and have your page load 50 miliseconds slower than have it not loaded at all...Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-7635878647566709712009-05-13T21:26:00.003-04:002009-05-13T21:35:02.608-04:00My WorkspaceSo here comes a pic of my current workspace (carefully cleaned out two days ago). Included: a hooked up laptop Dell Inspiron 1420 (bought in Jan '08), monitor Acer AL1917W (Jan '07), Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 (if MS does something very good - that's mice!) and some 4 y/o speakers Creative (from Staples).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEGWdWS8jxqiWRq7j5TMVXZS2YOiq5CkO1nhIElRyNSdlFEt8P3Yc4Gy1osMyfcsBSg7_i4FolIv1vex8UglmXi_e-zpwXBz7rwEY3I9uRQPN1359jmqJLQomvD-tCjeD9J7-iYmE8-Qk/s1600-h/P1030918.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEGWdWS8jxqiWRq7j5TMVXZS2YOiq5CkO1nhIElRyNSdlFEt8P3Yc4Gy1osMyfcsBSg7_i4FolIv1vex8UglmXi_e-zpwXBz7rwEY3I9uRQPN1359jmqJLQomvD-tCjeD9J7-iYmE8-Qk/s320/P1030918.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335486444789350914" /></a>Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-46971498700080031182009-05-03T18:28:00.011-04:002009-05-03T22:24:41.777-04:00Web Hosting experience overview<p>Updated in less than one hour after posting - dreamhost'ed website is down again. Down, i.e. not accessible from anywhere!</p><br />Here's a list of web hosts I've ever dealt with:<br /><br /><h4><a href="http://www.bluehost.com/track/getitnow/">Bluehost</a> (ref link, why not?) - Shared Hosting</h4><p>4 years with them. Were questionable in the beginning due to thin network pipes but over the time they've built trust to them. These days I track them with Pingdom and they provide average uptime of 99.9% on a medium-to-high trafficked site. They come out to around $100/year which is cheap. Although they give you everything unlimited, you are limited to one IP address ($30/y) and one SSL certificate ($45/y from Comodo).</p><p>One of great things about them is their Live Chat and Phone Support - you can get most questions answered within 5-30 minutes and most things done withing 30-60 minutes. Unfortunately recently I started noticing some rudeness from time to time but it's still livable.</p><p>Other well known human beings on Bluehost - <a href="http://www.frumsatire.net">Frum Satire</a> - the guy is on Wordpress and it seems he didn't optimize his set up well so his website is slow sometimes.</p><h4><a href="http://www.serverbeach.com/">Server Beach</a> - Dedicated Servers</h4><p>My first official employee used them for Win based platform. They give you everything you want - private network, private IP addresses and so on. Very good connection in NY. Not so expensive to start in any level</p><h4><a href="http://www.mediatemple.net">Media Temple</a> - Shared (GS, Grid Servers)</h4><p>Not cheap, but highly praised by many customers. They are truly a temple - many people using them are as religious as apple users... I tried them but having a very low trafficked domain only fir testing ended up in slow access time.</p><p>Noticeable features - great custom Control Panel with great support for iPhone, Urchin software for stats (free for shared Grid Servers, gotta pay for DV - Dedicated Virtual). Very flexible. Ticket system is not very fast or at least for non urgent questions you have to wait for few hours to get reply sometimes.</p><h4><a href="http://www.rochen.com/">Rochen</a> - Shared Hosting</h4><p>Give less give better - i think it's their headline. You get just 300MB for $8/mo but this is promised to be on Raid 10 - not bad for shared hosting. And you are limited to 1 domain! But do you really need more? Get 500MB and three domains for $12. There are few more options, if you are interested you can find it out by yourself, i'm not going to do full advertising for free :) Anyway I was with them for few month but have never launched there anything high loaded to try them out. Good memory anyway except i couldn't figure out why I had problems with file permissions.</p><h4><a href="http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=11405701">1 and 1</a> (ref) - shared hosting and other options</h4><p>Wanted to set up a blog for my friend. Something what would be independent from my movements from hosting to hosting and to make it all under her name so in case of something. Back then they were giving options for less $2/mo + free domain what was more than enough for her. I didn't like the way some things were arranged and managed in their system, but in overall I was satisfied. Never heard complaints from my friend either</p><p>Other human beings using it - <a href="http://blog.ookamikun.com">Moshe</a>. I spoke to him, he sounds happy</p><h4><a href="http://www.datapipe.com/">DataPipe</a> - managed dedicated and colocation</h4><p>Hosting provider at my current employee. Nothing much to say but IMO they are another example of old school overpriced a bit stagnated service.</p><h4><a href="http://linode.com">Linode</a> - VPS</h4><p>There are companies that gain your trust somehow without these loud words anywhere. This is the case. For $20/mo an up you can get as much as you need. They give you self-managed system - on a given space you can build in minutes one or many of given systems. You are free to do almost anything including breaking your things. They've got data-centers in couple of different places in US so you can often choose the most closest and appropriate location. Good place to start with your VPS.</p><h4><a href="http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?309089">Dreamhost</a> (ref) - shared and VPS</h4><p>I used to think of this company as a very good service which has earned so many praises from their users for good. Recently I was looking for a hosting option for my shul's website. I couldn't host it on my main account because it required own IP address and SSL. On erev Yom Tov Pesach I somehow end up on dreamhost's frontpage where they offered first year for less than $10 (code 777). Obviously I went for it because I've read many good words about them from people who used them. Unfortunatelly two weeks later the server site was hosted on went down. Obviously shared hosting doesn't provide you email or sms notifications so I didn't know about this issue until on friday I was told to check website. All what was there - "It works" - one of standard apache pages. They have status blog but the last update was from the day before that they are working on backing things up. I filed a ticket and was replied backup process is still running. So I decided not to touch anything although it didn't make sense that backup is taking that long. Ok, it's Shabbos soon and I can't do much from work anyway - all backups are only local at home. Motzei Shabbos first thing I check website and find empty index of files in the top directory of website. All I had to say was "Mo*Fu*ers". No updates on my ticket. Coming home I checked out their status blog - updated lately on friday night all it said was sorry for lost data you'll get a message about refund. Great! Thanks for not f-ing up something more serious with thousands of visitors even on saturday. I file another ticket and only about 15 hours later I get reply saying that their backup was running broken and it's for good that it happened. Now I'm still in thought of switching from them...</p><p>Just few hours later after their last reply I notice that website is down again. Not accessible from anywhere, no pings, trace route, nothing helps. Soon after filing ticket with highest priority things went up again and I'm again in deep thoughts of wasting few hours to switch to another host. Because I'm not a kid to play Up and Down games anymore.</p><p>From good side they've got some interesting options in their custom Control Panel, easy set up for SSH, IP address and SSL. Many other options. 50GB of dedicated space for backups (managed by you, access by FTP) on another server. DB is also on another server - in my case DB was left untouched and I didn't have to rebuild it.</p><h4>Hostings I'd like to try:</h4><ul><li><a href="http://mosso.com">Mosso</a> - cloud servers - sounds not expensive to try. From $11/mo and up. Backed up by Rackspace, sounds impressive... Who knows...</li><li><a href="http://slicehost.com">SliceHost</a> - another not expensive self-managed VPS. Also backed up Rackspace</li><li><a href="http://mediatemple.net">MediaTemple</a> - middle-priced managed VPS from a highly praised company, still eager to try.</li><li><a href="http://www.pinchhost.com/">PinchHost</a> - they followed me today on one of my Twitter accounts after I complained about dreamhost. They look like a not expensive but so far they have there some trust. I don't know why.</li><li><a href="http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/">Yahoo Hosting</a> - large company that gives some trust, but only when they switch to PHP 5. Come on guys PHP 4 is dead!!!</li></ul><br />I'm going to add more stuff here when there will be something and update this post from time.Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070310095349456351.post-2210545226603555352009-05-03T16:11:00.003-04:002009-05-03T16:14:58.408-04:00What if you change your mind and the way you of a person after every conversation with them? Not in a bad way, but just like your talking to a person you don't know and get a first impression of them, but here it's someone you know for a while and it's still like someone you don't know at all?Dude with hat (aka BTS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09732331063242686700noreply@blogger.com0