OurielOhayon

GOOGLE HALLOWEEN

Today it is Halloween and Google reminds us of it in its homepage

TAGGING YOUR PICTURE...

…Is a total nightmare when you have to do it one by one. You have to review each picture and say for each one what are the key words that depicts them. Ok, once it is done, it s much better to review, search and share them, like on Flickr service. But before you have to spend hours to do it.

I discovered RIYA a new amazing service that does it automatically through a intelligent algorithm and that is able to identify say a face for each picture automatically once you have said that this personn on the pictures is called “my son”, or “daddy” or “paul”. Then it will tag all your pictures where Riya will recognize the face again….Revolutionnary

"ISRAEL SHOUD BE WIPED OFF THE MAP"

That s what Iran president declared a few days ago…But wait a sec it is not so terrible… Iran also said a few days later, after a wordwide condemnation, that  actually Iran have nothing agains jews at all.

Now i feel much better…Our iranian friends wish to erase israel but do not wish to harm us at all. That s a good news! Just an advice if you wish to destroy Israel try to do it while Bill Gates is not around, this would really look bad

BILL GATES : "ISRAEL, PART OF THE SILICON VALLEY"

In a past post (funny sound isn t it?) i announced Bill Gates would be in Israel for one day. Actually it is TODAY 26/10. And he declared that Israel is a world leading High Tech center.

TYPEPAD LOGIN

I finally had an answer today from typepad help (very quick!).

If you have a blog on typepad, you might have experienced the same problem as me when you checked the “remember me” on typepad homepage. Indeed by coming back to that page it never remembers you and you will need to login again.

The answer is simple: you need to go directly to the adress https://www.typepad.com/t/app once you have chosen the “remember me” option and logged. So put that link in favourites and not www.typepad.com

HOW MUCH IS MY BLOG WORTH?

My blog is worth $7,903.56.
How much is your blog worth?

Thanks to Loic for helping me discover i can get some money out it? But how exactly will i get those dollars?

THE BEST COFFEE IN THE WORLD

I like coffee very much. I drink in general twice a day. i tried many different coffees in many places in the world including starbucks and all over Italy. I bought sometime ago a nespresso coffee machine. It is not bad at all. But i must say i was totally bluffed by the coffee in Israel (and not because i live there).

 

Yes, the coffee in Israel is totally amazing and (it is hard to believe) much better than the coffee in France, Germany and even Italy (on average). How come? How this small country managed to become so good at doing that?

 

I don t really know. Maybe because coffee is a prime social drink and that social life is important in Israel. Maybe because Israelis travel a lot and they imported the "coffee culture".  It is for sure not because of the raw material or coffee machines that are the same as the one used anywhere in the world (illy, mauro, lavazza,...) What i know is that they make it well. The espresso for example is always very hot, served with a twist of lemon on the side and most of the time without even asking for it with a couple of fresh coffee beans and a cold small glass of sparkling water. And the price is not a ridiculous 2/3 euros as you can find in Paris...

 

You can see in Israel at least 6 networks (HUGE for a small country of 6 millions of people) of coffee house/bar of high quality: Aroma cafe, Cafenetto, Arcaffe, Ilan's, Espresso Bar, Cup of Joe. I never was disappointed by a coffee or capuccino in Israel. They are so good that

 

• Starbcuks failed to established in Israel. Not good enough...
• Arcaffe has been picked up by the famous french "Galeries Lafayette" to  be their official inhouse coffee bar
• Espresso Bar is establishing now in NY. also here

My favourite is EspressoBar for taste and design. It is just impressive how country only 50 years old is so good at doing the simplest things better than its older brothers.

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GOOD VIRAL AD

Discovered this ad through Morten

Very smart and also smart

 

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REALLY FUNNY / VRAIEMENT MARRANT

This post is for french speaking people. Just discovered this blog of an obviously very funny girl. Rush on it

BYE BYE SHIRLEY

Shirley Horn, one of the greatest jazz singer ever, just died today. I had the opportunity to see her in Paris a couple of years ago. A great voice, intentionally slow rythm, misty atmosphere, clean elegant soft piano playing (she also plays..)importance of the words are the caracteristics of this artists. Does not look so sexy like Liza Ekdal or Diana Krall, but her music is way above them… Get to know more here

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