Miky Schreiber's Blog - Life

New Member in the Schreiber Clan

mikypuff — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:31:28 GMT

Some has asked me why I don't blog anymore. The answer is simple - say hello to Hadas, my new daughter. Because of the birth we moved to a new apartment few weeks ago and in the last Sunday my wife, Noga, gave birth to Hadas. Now it is time to keep on the blogging. Be High!
P.S
Here you can see more Hadas's photos.

Horror. Terror.

mikypuff — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:15:16 GMT

I can't sleep. Just can't fall to sleep. I can't stop thinking about the terror attack that occurred last Thursday. For those of you who don't know or can't remember - you can look here. I would like to show this story from my personal point of view.

"Merkaz HaRav", or as we all call it - "Merkaz" (Center) is the main Yeshiva (aka Jewish Seminary) in Israel of our way. This terror-act was well planned and well performed. Hitting Merkaz is not just another terror-act. Merkaz is the main Yeshiva of us all, meaning the jewish people who believe in the Rabbi Kuk's way - conjoining the holy and the secular, the holy books and the military, the religious brother with the non-religious brother (we all brothers, first of all) and so on. All that happened in the middle east for the last years began in this yeshiva: The settlements beyond the green line, knowing that we own this land who was given to our ancestors. The resurrection of the jewish people in our holy land and the eternal search for rightness and peach.
Hitting Merkaz meaning hurting us all, hitting our ideology, hitting everything. We all feel (we all talked about it, of course) that this attacked just happend in our homes. When the heart is hurt you'll feel it in the entire body. I just can't understand how our government can proceed like this.

I intended to paste here some pictures from the scene, but I don't want to shock you (look here if you really want to). The CNN and the international news companies don't show you these pictures and especially the pictures of the joy of the little children in Gaza strip (which I can't find right now). Little kids, full of hate, who are happy in the murder of others.

May g-d help us all.

Thrashing and Raising Children

mikypuff — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:59:20 GMT

update: Damn, the title of this post just seems bad...

I think that after almost two and a half years of ~~fatherhood~~ (hey, I just invented a word!) being a parent I can write some things about my experiences. But first, a short introduction from the world of Operation Systems:

Thrashing (Wikipedia) is a case where one process in the computer is consuming huge amount of memory for a long time and therefore makes the whole system very slow. There are many approaches of solving this problem (Yeah, you guessed right: Windows doesn't treat this at all). The two important solutions (for this post) are:

Kill the memory-consuming process (Used in Linux 4.2)
Make this process "the king" of the computer: Let it run until it will end (Used in Linux 4.6)

These approaches can also be used with children. When a children is misbehaves you can either give him a loud "No" (No, I don't mean to kill him. A kid is not a process :-)) or let him be the king - just let him do what he wants. Now comes the important question: Which is the right approach? Well, I think that there's no ideal answer. It's just depends on the situation: Does the children right about what he wants? Maybe I (or his mother) promised him something earlier? What is the educational result of my action? All these things may change the answer.

The most important of all: Do what is right for your child. Not what is comfortable for you in the moment.

Why I don't like Facebook and why I joined it anyway

mikypuff — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:50:50 GMT

For the last months I rejected over and over again invitations to Facebook. The reason is that I think that it's just a big waste of time. I finally surrender when I figured out that I'm missing many things that happens on the virtual world. For example, my friend published pictures of my daughter and everyone seen it except... me. Everyone talked about how cute she is in those pics, people who I don't know say hello to her with a smile and I don't know who they are and how they know Renana...

After joining the social network I've seen for myself the huge waste of time. Instead of making this network a platform for distant people to connect to each other, I see that everybody is busy with adding many stupid applications to their profile pages, annoying each other with nonsense (I'm saving an alien, raising a pet, you name it) and playing endless quizzes.

I decided that after filling my profile with minimal amount of apps I will calm down and use Facebook to do what it's meant to do - connect with my friends. Friends - Stay in touch !