Professional photos from the Simchat Bat taken by Natasha Valik. Not-so-professional photos taken by me and other family members.
Author: mradwin
A letter to Yael Goldie Radwin on the day of her Simchat Bat
Dear Little One, Welcome to the world, to the community, and to our immediate family. We are overwhelmed with the joy of seeing you, of holding you, of loving the you that you are and the you that you will become. You have made such a graceful entrance into our lives, sharing with us with […]
It’s a girl!
DSC_4366 Originally uploaded by mradwin Baby Girl Radwin was born January 31, 2008 at 2:40am. She weighed in at 8 lbs, 8 oz and is 19 1/2″ long. Mom and baby are doing great, Noam is a proud big brother, and Abba is on cloud nine.
I want a DadGear Cargo Baby Gear Jacket
Costco DadGear Cargo Baby Gear Jacket Changing Pad, Diaper, Wipes and Bottle Pockets $69.99 Plus Shipping & Handling Fatherhood hasn’t changed my general consumerist lust for new things. It has merely shifted it to a whole new class of products I didn’t know I needed until now. The concept behind the DadGear style is simple […]
Software Engineer, Java – Click Fraud Prevention
Want to build something that hunts down the bad guys and puts ’em out of business? Got experience building complex systems in Java? Fraudwall Technologies has the job for you. We’re looking for engineers at all experience levels who want to help build a massive data processing and modeling pipeline, using cutting-edge machine learning and […]
MySQL User Defined Functions for FNV (Fowler/Noll/Vo) Hash
Sometimes you only need a 32- or 64-bit hash function. One of my favorites at Yahoo and something we’re using at Fraudwall Technologies is the FNV (Fowler/Noll/Vo) Hash. If you’d like to use FNV inside of MySQL, you might find our udf_fnv.c useful. For example: mysql> select FNV1A_64(‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy […]
Time It Right™: home automation based on the Jewish Calendar
Time It Right™: home automation based on the Jewish Calendar looks pretty slick: Never set another Shabbos clock! Introducing Time It Right™- the ultimate in home automation. Time It Right™ is the only home automation system with a built in Jewish calendar. Time It Right™ is custom scheduled around YOUR Zemanim and lifestyle, controlling your […]
php.ini hacks: –with-config-file-scan-dir and ini variable expansion
I whipped up a quick 3-minute presentation entitled php.ini hacks for today’s PHP Lightning Talks session at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. It demonstrates two features: The –with-config-file-scan-dir option to ./configure ini variable expansion (“open_basedir = ${open_basedir}:/tmp“) Why? Because George and Laura asked me to, and this is all I could think of with 20 […]
Kosher Gummi Bears from Amazon.com
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, […]
JPod by Douglas Coupland
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 […]