scientific experiments for the lot of you!

i didn't know it was going to rain today. one never does, but i thought i'd learned to take my brolly regardless... so i got a little soaked today. but it rained properly, so i enjoyed myself ^_^

our unit was lectured today concerning the evils (nationally speaking) of living in tel aviv and not having a million and five children each, considering the state of the nations surrounding us. the frightening thing is just how correct he is, but how impractical it has become to behave that way as a first-world country. throughout the world, people are beginning to understand (or dealing with firmly, in the case of china and india) the problems of overpopulation, but the arab nations' populations are still exploding.

wow. i can't believe i wrote that. it stays. i think i should've written "the arab nations are still experiencing a population explosion": that's still provocative, but less "from the hip".

anyway, hi-tech doesn't rely on all interacting companies to be based in the same area. it's just easier, especially as the companies can enjoy a larger and higher quality labour pool - silicon valley is the standard model. as israel is an information-based economy, that's reason A for so many people to be moving this side.

reason B is that tel aviv is an open, free society - not all of israel shares her sentiments. outside of the greater tel-aviv area, there aren't a lot of places that aren't isolated either geographically or religiously, and nationalist issues turn a lot of israelis away from haifa.

halfway through the lecture i started getting phone spam - after screaming at some poor tech-support girl for twenty minutes we discovered that somebody was trying to send me an mms. orange's mms services SUCK ASS.
a few minutes later i had a number, and i called it.

spuzz's phone doing weird things, huh? most of you will not care about what i'm about to say, but DO IT ANYWAY. add a name to your cellphone, something along the lines of "AAAAAAAA", with a number that your phone won't attempt to dial. a blank number works for mine. that way you won't annoy your friends when your phone's not locked.

oh.

and you should lock your bloody phone. always.

it took two hours to get home, and after handling a load of washing and moving some more music (i have to say it, i feel good about all my original cds), i'm going to bed.