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On the third night of Chanuka
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The empty rectangular pits in this picture are said to be the graves of Maccabees, the warriors who fought against the Greek-Syrians (heck if I know what a Greek-Syrian is, but that’s what the stories say) after the temple was desecrated. I took this picture on 12/19/84 but I’m pretty sure nothing’s changed. This is an easily understandable and fairly accurate description of what’s generally believed to be how it went down. Here is another interesting retelling, from a website called Christus Rex.
This sunset at Modi’in illuminates how similar our views can be, no matter where we stand while watching.
Three chanukiot, three candles, third night.
Chappy Chanuka.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:00 pm December 27th, 2005 in Politics | Comments Off
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Update: My sleuthing could be faulty (since this is so not what I do for a living) but it appears that Mr. Sifry may have actually used his very own Technorati search function to find my blog. Maybe he’ll tell me so I can make sense of the ‘sphere.
I posted this about splogs and it appears that David Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, used Talkdigger (which I figured out by looking at my Sitemeter info) to locate where in the blogosphere those Umbria numbers are being discussed. He left a comment at my post and I’ve emailed him to request that if he comes up with a refutation of the numbers, to please let me know so I can post that too.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:39 pm December 27th, 2005 in Politics | 6 Comments
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Selling out future generations
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I swear to God, I’m going to have to get permanently nasty if this ever comes to Ohio. My kids will testify that once or twice a year should be all anyone has to endure of me when I’m nasty.
And, given this news and this Plain Dealer editorial about the gains in reducing Ohio’s school funding inequities, such a move strikes me akin to placing casinos in Cleveland.
Anyone else think Madison Avenue devised the unfunded mandates in No Child Left Behind?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:04 pm December 27th, 2005 in Politics | 2 Comments
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71 of top 100 Technorati blogs = spam
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Now here’s something I’d love Dick Feagler to wrap his words around (from Adweek.com article):
Umbria [a Boulder, Colo.-based consumer-generated media monitor] examined results in October from three blog search engines—Technorati, IceRocket and BlogPulse—and found them rife with spam sites. On average, 44 of the top 100 results on the engines were spam. For instance, an Apple iPod search turned up splogs in 80 of the top 100 results on IceRocket, and 75 and 71 on BlogPulse and Technorati, respectively.
What’s the solution? Or is this not a problem?
Maybe even more interesting: Umbria Inc.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:52 pm December 27th, 2005 in Politics | 4 Comments
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On the third night of Chanuka
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The empty rectangular pits in this picture are said to be the graves of Maccabees, the warriors who fought against the Greek-Syrians (heck if I know what a Greek-Syrian is, but that’s what the stories say) after the temple was desecrated. I took this picture on 12/19/84 but I’m pretty sure nothing’s changed. This is an easily understandable and fairly accurate description of what’s generally believed to be how it went down. Here is another interesting retelling, from a website called Christus Rex.This sunset at Modi’in illuminates how similar our views can be, no matter where we stand while watching.
Three chanukiot, three candles, third night.
Chappy Chanuka.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:00 pm December 27th, 2005 in Politics | Comments Off
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27
Update: My sleuthing could be faulty (since this is so not what I do for a living) but it appears that Mr. Sifry may have actually used his very own Technorati search function to find my blog. Maybe he’ll tell me so I can make sense of the ‘sphere.
I posted this about splogs and it appears that David Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, used Talkdigger (which I figured out by looking at my Sitemeter info) to locate where in the blogosphere those Umbria numbers are being discussed. He left a comment at my post and I’ve emailed him to request that if he comes up with a refutation of the numbers, to please let me know so I can post that too.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:39 pm December 27th, 2005 in Politics | 6 Comments
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27
Selling out future generations
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I swear to God, I’m going to have to get permanently nasty if this ever comes to Ohio. My kids will testify that once or twice a year should be all anyone has to endure of me when I’m nasty.
And, given this news and this Plain Dealer editorial about the gains in reducing Ohio’s school funding inequities, such a move strikes me akin to placing casinos in Cleveland.
Anyone else think Madison Avenue devised the unfunded mandates in No Child Left Behind?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:04 pm December 27th, 2005 in Politics | 2 Comments
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27
71 of top 100 Technorati blogs = spam
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Now here’s something I’d love Dick Feagler to wrap his words around (from Adweek.com article):
Umbria [a Boulder, Colo.-based consumer-generated media monitor] examined results in October from three blog search engines—Technorati, IceRocket and BlogPulse—and found them rife with spam sites. On average, 44 of the top 100 results on the engines were spam. For instance, an Apple iPod search turned up splogs in 80 of the top 100 results on IceRocket, and 75 and 71 on BlogPulse and Technorati, respectively.
What’s the solution? Or is this not a problem?
Maybe even more interesting: Umbria Inc.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:52 pm December 27th, 2005 in Politics | 4 Comments
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David Sifry, Founder and CEO of Technorati, pays a visit
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Update: My sleuthing could be faulty (since this is so not what I do for a living) but it appears that Mr. Sifry may have actually used his very own Technorati search function to find my blog. Maybe he’ll tell me so I can make sense of the ‘sphere.
I posted this about splogs and it appears that David Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, used Talkdigger (which I figured out by looking at my Sitemeter info) to locate where in the blogosphere those Umbria numbers are being discussed. He left a comment at my post and I’ve emailed him to request that if he comes up with a refutation of the numbers, to please let me know so I can post that too.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:39 pm December 27th, 2005 in Politics | Comments Off
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27
Selling out future generations
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I swear to God, I’m going to have to get permanently nasty if this ever comes to Ohio. My kids will testify that once or twice a year should be all anyone has to endure of me when I’m nasty.
And, given this news and this Plain Dealer editorial about the gains in reducing Ohio’s school funding inequities, such a move strikes me akin to placing casinos in Cleveland.
Anyone else think Madison Avenue devised the unfunded mandates in No Child Left Behind?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:04 pm December 27th, 2005 in Politics | Comments Off
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27
71 of top 100 Technorati blogs = spam
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Now here’s something I’d love Dick Feagler to wrap his words around (from Adweek.com article):
Umbria [a Boulder, Colo.-based consumer-generated media monitor] examined results in October from three blog search engines—Technorati, IceRocket and BlogPulse—and found them rife with spam sites. On average, 44 of the top 100 results on the engines were spam. For instance, an Apple iPod search turned up splogs in 80 of the top 100 results on IceRocket, and 75 and 71 on BlogPulse and Technorati, respectively.
What’s the solution? Or is this not a problem?
Maybe even more interesting: Umbria Inc.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:52 pm December 27th, 2005 in Politics | Comments Off
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God bless guilt
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Like a good Jewish wife, I’ve successfully guilted my husband into playing tunes from his new Chanuka songbook (don’t tell him I said so, but he likes to play for people anyway). The piano’s chords sound festive in our newly cleaned living room, which is really a playroom because, like the good assimilated Jews we are, my kids have more stuff than we do from Chanukas past, mainly because our relatives live out of town and, feeling guilty that they’re not here with us, and we’re not there with them, they used to ship obscene-sized boxes full of gifts for each of our three kids during Chanuka and for their birthdays. For two or three years, we were getting up to eight gifts per kid per set of grandparents, great-grandmother and aunts and uncles (five sets of those). For us, especially in our leaner days, this meant that we’d only have to give our kids a couple of gifts because of the avalanche from everyone else.
And, not to forget the fair and balanced person I try to portray myself to be, every December, I fill up to five large plastic lawn/leaf bags full of stuff. Again, obscene. But at least one of those bags is full of gently used items that go to Good Will, another often has unopened presents that I hid after my kids got them for their birthdays (usually duplicates or items I wouldn’t let them have, like the Bratz lunchbox full of candy and the toy armored vehicles with hundreds of plastic toy soldiers; in twelve years and three kids, no one has ever given us a simulated weapon, thank God) and at least one other is full of boxes, broken containers, and the assorted flotsam and jetsem that playrooms accumulate under bookcases and rugs.
Speaking of leaner days, for years, my husband and I exchanged nothing but “coupons” that we’d make from construction paper. Coupons for back rubs, a week of ironing, a month of mowing the lawn, a night when the other spouse could choose any movie rental at all, no matter how much the other hated that genre, and so on. I still have some of the faded coupons stuffed in with old Valentine’s Day, birthday and anniversary cards.
As for the Zimons of Ohio, the kids and Jeff got calendars tonight and I got a pair of pajamas, woohoo. (It’s what I asked for, so that is in fact a real woohoo.) Of course, I have a cheat sheet slipped inside my bathing suit drawer: I know what everyone’s getting each night. I love being the giver.
Jeff Hess of Have Coffee Will Write tackles the assimilation issue connected to how Chanuka is celebrated. I can’t argue with him – it’s true. In many Jewish families, presents occupy a centerpiece. And I’ve confessed this sin already – we do give gifts.
However, my family gives at least equal time to the holiday’s traditions and history, we give items to others during the eight days and my children will be choosing both something from their own possessions and going shopping with me to buy toys for donation. Likewise, my oldest is thinning books from his personal library so that we can give them to a program that benefits Cleveland public school kids. We focus on the family commaraderie that celebrating together fosters. And I have to say, this year, we’ve succeeded like never before. Poo poo poo, as they say to keep away evil spirits after you’ve recognized something good.
Chappy Second Night of Chanuka.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:53 am December 27th, 2005 in Politics | 2 Comments
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