Al Ha VeDa is the blog of Simon Montagu, Netscape’s current BiDi/Hebrew expert. He used to work for IBM (in the team that implemented BiDi in Mozilla), and then moved to Netscape – a move several of the more active independant contributors did. Apropos of this(?), he writes:
Getting through an interview requires basic social skills. This makes open source projects the natural home of the folks who write really cool code but also happen to be total dorks.
The link to Simon’s blog comes from Ian Hixie, who has a account of his heroic struggle with the Hebrew numbering system.