In 2004, lkcl wrote an article on Advogato saying "Love is Golden: All Ideas Have and Always Will be". For a long time, I've been supplying the HTML material for my presentations under permissive, free-content licences, but did not supply the source code and markup used to generate them. Inspired by the article, I set to remedy it, and now there are links from the individual presentations to the source tarballs.

Note that some presentations were created using other tools, and so are not available with their source yet, but hopefully this will be remedied soon, too.

The two Interviews with open-source people were now converted to XML-Grammar-Screenplay and their source is available on the page.

The Software Contruction and Management Tools page was heavily updated.

New links have been added to the pages "Against Bad Software".

New film recommendations have been added to the movie recommendations. Moreover, two new book reviews have been added: about "The Pragmatic Programmer" and about "Extreme Programming Explained".

New links have been added to the links page.

New quotes have been added to the Fortune Cookie Collection. More information is in their web-feeds.

There were also internal improvements to the site's build system making the building of the DocBook/XML documents and other resources less error-prone and more powerful and customisable.

Happy Firefox 3 Release Day everyone. Hope you enjoy the new browser, which I can highly recommend. Here's a new edition of the "What's new in Shlomi Fish's home-site" log.

A new joke has been added to the aphorisms page: (by a friend of mine)

I often wonder why I hang out with so many people who are so pedantic. And then I remember - because they are so pedantic.

The Music Recommendations page was updated with more links (to the Wikipedia, etc.) and with a new CD (The Lion King). Moreover, The Non-fiction books' recommendations page was updated with new books. And lastly, I began working on a page with recommendations of films.

More text has been added to "Star Trek: We, the Living Dead":

[Jadzia is walking towards Quark's bar and sees quark standing next to a terminal and mumbling.]

Dax: Hi Quark! Why are you so happy?

Quark: Remember the film I took? Rom helped me edit it, and I've been distributing and selling it online. I have made a fortune.

[Camera zooms to reveal Brunt in the background.]

Brunt: Brunt, FCA.

Quark: I made a fortune.

Dax: You had made a fortune.

Quark: Yep.

The quotations in the fortune cookies collection were greatly enhanced: new quotes were added, the plaintext files are now synchronised from the new XML sources, and more meta-data and styles have been added.

Added the summary page of the recent Tel Aviv Linux club Vim Tips+Tricks meeting.

I placed the Hebrew translation I prepared of Mashhoor Al Dubayan's "10 Reasons for Companies to Consider Web Standards" on my homepage.

The specification for the old "Rindolf - a Perl Dialect" was integrated into the flow of the site.

I made sure the Hebrew on the pages will be recognised as Hebrew by Firefox and other browsers (added the lang="" attribute, etc.).

The fortune cookies collection was completely revamped: the fortunes were converted to a richer XML grammar, and I added a lot of formatting and meta-information to them. They can now be individually linked to. Right now, there is no converter from the XML grammar back to plaintext (only to XHTML), so the plaintext versions are less up-to-date.

There's now a second revision of the essay "What Makes Software High-Quality?" with many corrections and additions:

Why is high quality in software important? Low-quality software applications will require the users or end-developers to work around their bugs and limitations, write a lot of extra functionality themselves, and as a result, duplicate a lot of effort and cause a lot of frustration and unhappiness. This is assuming they don't give up on it soon or right away, and end up looking for something else.

New text has been added to the work-in-progress screenplay Star Trek: "We, the Living Dead":

Worf: so Mr. Abramovich... I mean, Prof. Abramovich... I mean - Your Majesty!

Shlomo: Mister, Doctor, Professor, General, Admiral, Duke, Baron, Count, Earl...

Mosheh: Fellow of the Royal Society!

Shlomo: indeed. Nasi, Rabbi, Rav, Emir... you name it - I had it. Just call me Shlomo.

Worf: I see. Mr. Shlomo.

Dvorah: men, I tell you - overachievers, and always need to travel. I stayed most of the time here.

Added Digg and Reddit buttons to the top of all the pages, to facilitate submitting and ranking using them.

The individual HTMLs generated from DocBook/XML are now styled better and link to the main site. Furthermore, the DocBook/XML .xml sources now have a CSS stylesheet attached to them to enhance viewing them directly. (Thanks to the docbook-css project.)

A question to the FAQ about why I'm using XHTML 1.1 has been added.

Some links have been added to the "Anti-MySQL" page.

The documentation for the Park Lisp dialect has been added into the open-source section:

Why am I doing it? For several reasons:

1. Because it's fun. This is by itself a good reason.
2. Because I found that designing your own language is one of the best ways to learn more about the original languages it is based on. When I designed the Perl dialect "Rindolf", I learned that some features I suggested for it were already doable in Perl 5.

Added the Hebrew translation of the "Case for Drug Legalisation" essay:

מכיוון שהסמים אינם חוקיים, הם מופצים על-ידי עוברי-חוק, שדורשים מחיר מופקע תמורתם. מחיר מופקע בהרבה מזה שדרוש לגדל, לזקק ולהפיץ אותם. כתוצאה מכך, יש שוק שחור גדול להפצה של סמים והמשתמשים בסמים נאלצים לבסוף לבצע פשעים כמו גניבה או שוד כדי לממן את הרגלי הסמים שלהם.

אחוז הפשיעה בארצות-הברית גדל פי שניים בשל האיסור על האלכוהול ("חוק היובש"). כאשר האיסור הוסר, הוא קטן חזרה למצבו המקורי. צפוי שפשעים הנובעים מסמים גורמים לריבוי דומה, בשל האופי הדומה של האיסור

The second revision of "Thoughts about the Best Introductory Language" is now available with many corrections and clarifications.

A Linux Kernel Patch to enhance the search dialog of the GUI configuration applet is now available there, as it has not been integrated into the mainline yet.

New fortune cookies have been added.

Added a note to the linking policy about requesting to remove mis-appropriate links.

KFlickr and the Firefox Uppity extension were added to the favourite open software page.

A "Bookmark me" button was added to the bottom of the main text of all the pages to facilitate bookmarking using online bookmarking and news services. Below it there are now some more text ads, which shouldn't be too intrusive. Finally, a JavaScript script that adds self-referential links to headings with anchors was added, which makes use of the jQuery library.

A guide to Israeli Free and Open Source Software Resources on the Internet was added to the site. Please let me know if you have any additions to it.

New fortune cookies have been added to the "shlomif", "shlomif-fav" and "joel-on-software" collections:

I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true - I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Bjarne Stroustrup quoted in http://xrl.us/bgzi4

New affiliations have been added to my contact page.

The HTML markup of some of the pages was cleaned up, and several bandwidth optimisations were made, so it should load a little faster.

New links were added to many pages.

The breadcrumbs trails in several pages were fixed.

Since the last update, the following changes took place:

1. Three small-scale humorous creations of mine are now available on the site: "The GPL is not Compatible with Itself" (formerly published on iglu.org.il), "Introducing RMS-Lint" (also formerly published there), and the new "Cracka's Paradise":

   A recent press conference of the Free Software Foundation confirmed the rumours that the GNU General Public License was found to be incompatible with itself. This newly discovered fact may actually cause a lot of disorder in the free software world in which most programs and libraries are licensed under this licence.

2. New fortunes were added to the "shlomif", "shlomif-fav" and "subversion" collections in the Fortune Cookies Files.

3. New links were added to the various Against-bad-software pages and to the links page.

4. There were several underlying changes to the content managemeng system and build system of the site. In many pages, breadcrumbs' trails are now better and more encompassing, and more pages were added to the section navigation menus.

Welcome to another edition of the Shlomi Fish's homepage news.

I added another question and answer to my FAQ, this time about my IRC parting message.

A funny Technion-originated and related bit (not by me and in Hebrew) was added to the humour section.

There are new fortune cookies in the fortune collection.

Two programs to perform a decomposition of a sine wave into square waves are now available in the open-source bits-and-bobs section.

New links have been added to the against Bad software pages, and the Stop Using Internet Explorer page was especially revamped:

Internet Explorer does not have a public, accessible bug tracker, similar to Mozilla's Bugzilla or what other similar browsers have. This makes bugs harder to report, reproduce, check and track and undermines the users and web developers.

There's a new page containing links to interviews with me and the weblogs page was updated.

Here's what is new on www.shlomifish.org since the last update.

Two new bits were added to the humour collection:

We don't know his cellphone number, and even if we did, we would tell you that we didn't know it.

Moreover and not-unusually, some new fortune cookies were added to the fortune cookies collection.

The new yjobs.co.il workaround for Mozilla-based browsers (such as Firefox) workaround may be of interest to Israeli-based job seekers.

Also on the software front, the XChat /nowplay script was updated to have Amarok support.

The anti-bad-software pages were updated with new links and with other updates.

There are new links in the links page.

Many non-validating pages (according to the W3C standards) were made to validate, and so most of the site should now be fully valid.

Have fun, everybody, and in case it's relevant - happy holidays!

Here are the new changes in my homesite since the last update:

1. Added a new aphorism to the Humour collection.
2. Added a new what-is-this-sequence riddle to the Math-Ventures section.
3. There's a new version of my Patch to the Gringotts Secure Note Manager, which fixes a crash in the preferences dialog.
4. The "Stop Using Internet Explorer!" page was updated with a new link to the number of days IE was vulnerable in 2006.
5. Corrections, deductions and final solutions were added to the "On the Tip of the Sword" logic puzzle, the "Between the Screws" puzzle and the "Ravensborg Guild" puzzle
6. Several new fortune cookies were added to the Fortune Cookies collection. Others were corrected.
7. Some new links were added to the Humour section of the links page.

Happy New 2007!