A friend of mine recently wrote to me: "I just spent 2 hours on the phone with Apple to get Outlook to sync calendars with my iPhone (s...

In case you simply can't get enough of Steven Feuerstein (no, I don't generally talk about myself in the third person and definitely...

For several years now, anyone who was interested could download my "demo.zip" file, which consists of some 2000 files that I use i...

I am flying back to Chicago after a week in Europe (more or less). Monday and Tuesday in Istanbul, teaching a two-day course for Oracle. Zur...

On Tuesday this past week (March 24), I had the honor of spending some time at Oracle headquarters with two guys from the PL/SQL Team -- Cha...

The mouths of real men don't water when they hear that the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is going to hit the newstands. That's a...

It's been a long time since my last blog. A big part of my noted absence (ha!) from the blogosphere is that we are busily freezing code ...

Veva and I have been playing Scrabble nightly for a while, and tonite I was quite amazed at the pattern of my tiles. Of course, every game...

Check out this article (text at end of this post in case the article disappears): http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090122/ts_nm/us_palestinians_...

First, happy new year to all my readers (no matter how few you may be). I hope the holidays were good to you. As you no doubt are aware, Isr...

Yesterday was a very important day of celebration for me. It marked the last day of 2008 that I will enter or leave O'Hare Airport. Acco...

You've heard of HDTV, right? High definition television . It promises brighter colors, crisper sound, blah, blah, blah. All right, so sa...

Have you heard of World of Warcraft? It is a "massively multiplayer online role-playing game" (ahem, MMORPG) played over the Inter...

For many years now, we have had three cats in our house: Sister Itsakat (aka, Dinosaur Kitty), Moshe Jacobawitz (aka, Baby Seal Cat) and Mic...

At the beginning of November, my wife and I traveled to Portugal for a week. I gave a two day training in Lisbon sponsored by my friends at ...

ONE One thing about the government bailouts make me happy: for years, our so-called leaders have told us that there simply isn't enough ...

I have uploaded hundreds of photos from trips to Europe and India I have token in the past few years. You can find them all at my flickr sit...

OK, so Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. THAT MAKES ME SO VERY HAPPY. I don't expect that he will be able to reve...

I recently posted two entries on my ToadWorld blog that I thought you might like to see: Play games to become a better developer! Softwa...

Is anyone else bothered by McCain's repeated use of the word "proud" to describe how he feels about his vice presidential cand...