Shlomi Fish ([info]shlomif) wrote,
@ 2007-03-26 12:01:00
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Cool Cats in Tel Aviv University

There's a tri-color (probably female) cat hanging around the Coffee to Go, at the main entrance to Tel Aviv University. What she does is pass through the people sitting there, eating and drinking, while possibly looking for leftovers to eat. She's pretty friendly.

There's a cat at the lawn outside the university right near the "Social Studies building". I can see him (or her) consistenly when biking through on Haim Levanon st. He's usually sitting on the edge of the stone fence, just resting.

When I passed through the other day, he was on the sidewalk, and acting strange, going around in circles. Maybe he was looking for something. I got off the bike and patted him (he let me), but he wasn't content with it either.

There's a female cat in Schreiber in TAU (where we hold the Tel Aviv Linux club presentations). People call her "Bruriyah" and she is considered the "Be'alim" (= owner) of Shcreiber. She's half-black half-white and not tri-color.




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(Anonymous)
2007-03-27 05:53 am UTC (link)
Would you like to write in newspapers? I am seeking an intern (non-paid) for work on a magazine based in the US. You can get experience writing for newspapers...if interested email tauac@gmail.com.

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I'm not interested in non-paid internships
[info]shlomif
2007-03-27 05:19 pm UTC (link)
Hi!

Thanks for the offer, but sorry - I'm not interested in non-paid internships. While I have many good ideas for essays, articles or blog entries, and can probably never run out of decent ideas for technical things to write - I can make more money (and more fame, and other factors) by putting it on my blog or on my home page. By putting it on my homepage and then letting it hit the blogosphere I can:

1. Earn money from ads.

2. Gain more reputation.

3. Increase my page rank.

4. Have visitors visit other interesting pages on the site.

I can also have a technical article published on O'ReillyNet and get around $200-300 in return. If it's too small scope and on one of the blogs, it still keeps my blog active, and have people follow my links.

I'm pretty happy being a web publisher, rather than writing for paperware magazines. While it may be beneficial for me in the long run to write for magazines for free at first, I can eventually get some of my articles published, after writing them or different ones online. I'm a good writer, and I haven't marketed myself properly until now (see one of my next entries) and I think I know how to market myself better and get the reputation I deserve.

So thanks, but no thanks. If you'll be offering me a decent amount of money for the articles or the internship then I'll probably accept. But otherwise, I'm better off doing what I've been doing so far.

Sincerely yours,

Shlomi Fish

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Re: I'm not interested in non-paid internships
(Anonymous)
2007-03-27 08:23 pm UTC (link)
You could've just said "No, thanks", y'know :)


Ofer (ofer0)

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Re: I'm not interested in non-paid internships
[info]shlomif
2007-04-07 08:27 pm UTC (link)
I could, but I didn't want to. If I say "no thanks", the guy who's asking this question doesn't know why. Further, I'll have to say "no thanks" time and again". So I chose to explain why. I always hate it when someone does it to me without an explanation. I have been rejected from Jobs all the time, after a few interviews, not telling me what I should do wrong.

And, for the record, Ofer, such comments are annoying.

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(Anonymous)
2007-03-27 09:41 am UTC (link)
Thank you shlomif for another amazing piece of information.
Keep up the good work with Freecell Solver.

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Non-technical blog separation?
(Anonymous)
2007-03-27 11:32 pm UTC (link)
Hi Shlomi!

I'm not sure how to begin so I'll just go ahead. I'm a reader from Teton, WY, and can be considered an "avid reader" of your blog. I do have one small issue that bothers me though: what I find most interesting (perhaps somewhat an exception among your readers) are the non-technical posts that bring views, opinions, and photos of Israel, the kind that appear less in media here in the States.

Would you consider separating the non-technical content from the technical one? I find it cumbersome to wade through the technical posts about vim and Linux, and although I assume they are interesting to some of the readers, I'm sure there are others who, like me, find the lesser technical posts more interesting. :)

I'm probably the last person to know how to perform this separation, but I'm assuming the easiest way would be to create another blog?

Thanks,

David

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Re: Non-technical blog separation?
[info]shlomif
2007-03-28 02:17 am UTC (link)
Hi David! Thanks for your response.

These are my thoughts exactly. I've been thinking about creating several more specialised blogs instead of this catch-all-one. I already have several blogs around - most of them technical, but I suppose I can get another technical blog here on LJ.

Meanwhile, you may wish to make use of the LiveJournal Technorati tags system to filter out the "vim" and "linux" tags.

I should note that I still find most personal blogs, which detail the personal events that people encounter quite tiresome, so most of what I write here is going to be philosophical or at least of interest. One blog I used to read deteriorated in its level of interest, after its writer became a mother and started endlessly blogging about her motherhood experiences.

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Re: Non-technical blog separation?
(Anonymous)
2007-04-01 08:52 am UTC (link)

Not to mention she is quite a psycho-mom.

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indeed
(Anonymous)
2007-09-11 07:13 am UTC (link)
indeed

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growthflex
[info]growthflexpro
2009-06-02 05:30 am UTC (link)
could you consider separating the non-technical content from the technical one? I find it cumbersome to wade through the technical posts about vim and Linux, and although I assume they are interesting to some of the readers, I'm sure there are others who, like me, find the lesser technical posts more interesting.

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