Monthly Archives: April 2009

Jewish Thanksgiving

Handmade shmura matzo
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This week’s Foodie Fun Friday post is dedicated to all of you who won’t be using the bathroom for the next week.  You know who you are.  But the gentiles out there are wondering “what could he possibly mean?  What could possibly stop someone up that badly?”  Well, dear readers, Passover started Wednesday night and by now, most Jewish homes have had two Seders. With those Seders goes matzo and when we say hello to the matzo, we say “buh-bye” to regularity. Continue reading

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The Masters

Masters Tournament
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This is one of my favorite days of the year.  Competition begins today in The Masters.  It’s not just that it’s the first of golf’s major championships but also that it’s one of the big harbingers of Spring along with the opening of the baseball season and lighting the grill for the first time each year.  But there is one other thing about The Masters that make it one of, if not the, most unusual events in sport.   Is it that it’s the only major championship played on the same course each year?  No.  That it’s an invitational?  No. Continue reading

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Get Me Together

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Way back in the day on the web, we’d go “surfing” – gliding from site to site, going with the flow. There wasn’t enough “stuff” to take up too much time, a lot of it was drivel, and it was all NEW!
Things have changed a lot in 15 years. Users don’t surf any more – it’s mostly task-oriented work. That’s way making content “discoverable” is so important. I think getting content organized for users is just as important and another new, pretty good example of that opened up the other day. Continue reading

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