Michael J. Radwin's blogTales of a software engineer who keeps kosher and hates the web.Kosher Gummi Bears from Amazon.com- June 29, 2006 I just got a 16-pack of Planet Harmony Organic Fruit Bears from Amazon.com's new Grocery service for a mere 15 bucks. It arrived in two short days because it was elligible for Amazon Prime; Amazon.com is actually stocking inventory for grocery items and not just acting as a conduit for 3rd-party supermarkets like Gristedes. Plus, these gummi bears have a hechsher from Rabbi Eli Frankel's Kosher Certification Service. Sweet. (pun intended)http://www.radwin.org/michael/blog/2006/06/kosher_gummi_bears_from_am.html JPod by Douglas Coupland- June 11, 2006 Last night I finished reading JPod, Douglas Coupland's "sequel" to Microserfs. Very entertaining and a quick read. I haven't laughed out loud reading a book in months. JPod has been described as "Microserfs for the Google generation", but perhaps "Microserfs for the EA generation" would be more appropriate, given the setting of a bunch of coders working for a videogame company. I had assumed that jPod had something to do with Apple's iPod (perhaps a "jPod = ++iPod;" joke of sorts), but you...http://www.radwin.org/michael/blog/2006/06/jpod_by_douglas_coupland.html |