Archive for September, 2008

iPod Touch on Ubuntu via VirtualBox

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

So I finally am able to do full syncing on my iPod Touch with iTunes despite running only Ubuntu. I use Virtualbox to create a virtual instance of Windows XP. VirtualBox makes it really easy to install Windows within Ubuntu. There were a couple of hurdles to jump to get USB working, but I followed [...]

Military Service in Israel

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

A few years ago I had an incredible couple of weeks traveling solo through India. One night I had dinner with a group of young Israelis who invited me to join them. It was great. I did not know about mandatory military service in Israel and how both men and women (boys and girls?) were [...]

Obama on Africa

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Last night Obama was on Letterman and spoke at length about Africa. Not even looking at what was said - the fact that Africa was being discussed at all was great. But looking at what was said is pretty great too:

Dave: “Well, it’s pretty short now. Just a couple of months and there will [...]

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