Author: Dotan Dimet

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Blather

Life and Things

Gosh. I see I only posted once in February. Possibly I was busy?

Well, I did get rid of 3 cats (Cecilia went to Miller; Sumsum went to the SPCA in Tel Aviv; Misty went to a couple that Aya found, bless her). And I moved apartment, to Tel Aviv. So yep, it was busy.

Also, work was hectic at the time, as I recall. Worked one day from noon until 3AM, which was odd fun.

The new apartment is smaller than the apartment in Hod HaSharon (2 rooms instead of 4), and cheaper (about 800 NIS less, or even more when you factor in municipal taxes and common maintainence (Vaad haBaeat)). It’s on Derech HaShalom 93, 2nd entrance; or Amishav 24, 3rd entrance. In both cases, it’s apartment no. 5, and even though the place is right on the border of Givatayim, it’s definately in Tel Aviv, as I discovered this morning when I got a parking ticket on Amishav.

Is this a good neighbourhood? Well, it’s got some basic shops and an ATM nearby, but so did the place in Hod HaSharon. Noise is part traffic or neighbours dragging their furniture about. The dust is different, whiter and more abundant. Otherwise, not too many things to indicate that I am in The Big City, really.

This Monday we found that someone put Fox catalogs on each doorstep in Aya’s building; Coming home on Tuesday I found that in my building, someone left me (and presumably everyone else) an orange plastic bag with anti-withdrawal pamphlets and parsley from Gush Katif.

Yep, it’s that kind of neighbourhood.

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Comics

V for Vendetta

Saw Constantine the other day, which didn’t suck as much as it could, once you get past the fact that it’s about a different character who has no relation to JC from the comics.

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But it does add a data point in support of what Warren Ellis said in relation to rumors about V for Vendetta: I’m constantly fascinated at how Hollywood can always find the hook of an Alan Moore work and then toss only that hook away.
Now Newsarama have posted the transcript of the V for Vendetta press conference, and a pessimistic commentary by Rich Johnston. However, I find stuff to be hopeful about in the clips from the press conference on the film’s web site. For example, the bit where James Purefoy, cast as V, says he’s going to be wearing the mask the whole time. And the press conference decor has the spray-painted logo, rather than the metallic one Johnston worries about. So fingers crossed.
Although Genkin is probably right.

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Comics

Comics chuckles

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Both of these links from Uncle Bear: the silly Spider-Man’s Greatest Bible Stories!, and the shiffer-friendly Comic characters motivational posters.

Warren Ellis’ blog with its about comics category has lovely daft panels from old comics, like the one floating about here.
Linking to SuperDickery would be superfluous by now, wouldn’t it?

Edited June 19th, 2010 to add an updated link for the strip above (“What’s holding up our milks?”).

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Blather

Cat Update

אני עדיין מחפש בית לחתולים. לאחת מצאתי, שניים מחכים. הבחורה מאגודת צער בעלי חיים תל-אביב אמרה שלסומסום יש סיכוי למצוא מקום, אבל שמיסטי מבוגר מדי, ושחתולים בגילו הם מרדימים בלי להמתין. קצת אירוני, כי מיסטי הרבה יותר נחמד מהשיקוץ.

(מה שעוד אירוני הוא, שחוסר הנוחות בחיים עם שלושה חתולים לא גדולה בהרבה מחוסר הנוחות בחיים עם חתול אחד. ההבדל המורגש היחיד אחרי שמסרתי את ססיליה היה שהיה ארגז חול אחד פחות לנקות).

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BlogTalk

WordPress 1.5

Yesterday afternoon, I “upgraded” my blog from WordPress 1.2.2 to WordPress 1.5.
Now, cp -r is not the thing to use to do this…
Ended up messing up with quite a bit of my customizations, but I managed to salvage most of it, I think, except for some tricky redirections.
If you want to do something similar, you’d best spend the time finding the detailed WordPress 1.5 Upgrade instructions which I found via weblog tools collection, a day too late.
Mind you, less than 12 hours – or exactly? 12 hours after the upgrade, I got 4 spam comments to two old entries. I suspect they were found by someone scanning for WordPress and the F-word or something, because I can’t discern any other connection between the two. I quickly re-implemented my anti-comment-spam hack (trivial, but it should block the average automated comment spamming script), and got rid of the trackback script.
Now, let’s see if mirroring to LJ still works…