RightSignature's document signing service was selected from a fantastic list of companies by an expert team of successful Southern California investors. It's great validation to the team and CEO Daryl Bernstein's efforts. Looking forward to what comes next.
And yes--that's the second Right* company to win the show.
I'm quite certain that I am exceeding Ireland's per-city allowed spice threshold by making my favorite dish--Chana Masala. In fact I'm now relying my new dala (this dala, not that one):
Shown here cooking the masala:
And with the chana thickening oh-so-good:
Thank you again to VahChef for upping my game.
I've been a long-time wannabe Indian cook--I can make a decent Chana Masala, but I had never ventured into breads nor made a dal that could stand on its own. That is until I found Vahchef. Vahchef is an incredible chef from one of India's top restaurants. He covers the little details that make the difference from dry dals and soggy seasonings--to splending dishes and puffy poori's. Here's a taste of his style--making Tomato Dal (this is absolutely delicious and easy to get right):
If you aren't yet inspired by Indian cooking--take a look at Vahchef's face as he tastes his dishes. He's the only cook that makes me laugh (he really loves his food) and cry (wish I could eat what's he's just made too!). More on Vahchef's Youtube channel:
Growing up culturally Jewish and marrying an Irish Catholic gives an interesting stew of religious backgrounds to bring up children with. Seeing two religions so opposed on basic literal interpretations of rewritten and poorly translated secondary source documents helps clear the belief in any gods fairly thoroughly. We spend a good deal of time in Ireland and I generally feel welcome even in religiously influenced secular events like Weddings and whatnot (haven't had a wave of confirmations hit the kids' friends yet).
My personal beliefs or lack thereof have been pleasantly my own until the local atheists group pointed out that there was a seemingly archaic revival of the enforcement blasphemy laws (which have lingered in the constitution here) being proposed. Coming from a relatively religiously-free US background (besides "under god" littered on money and the school pledge--at least since the 50's) it didn't register that these might actually come to pass.
Today, they did.
As The Guardian put it:
To put my hat into the ring, I'll gladly admit my beliefs--I find morality in building a world my kids would like to live in. It's a great compass and deity free.So Irish law has now enshrined the notion that the taking of offence is more important than free expression. If something might cause a motivated group to be "outraged", rather than, say, cause them to live in fear, then it is illegal, with a fine of up to €25,000 payable.
Note the ease with which a prosecution could be brought, and the punitive nature of the fine: this is not legislation that simply serves to tie up a few loose ends.
RightSignature featured on TechCrunch this weekend. Great--and well earned--exposure for the team. w00t!.
I'd have thought I was in a larger crowd, using my Mac to blog on Blogger.com. It took me quite a while to find an OS X client. Finally did, called Ecto. Note that you need to make one quick fix otherwise you'll pull your hair out over spacing issues. Log into Blogger.com. Go to Settings => Formatting and turn off Convert Line Breaks.
Thanks to this forum post for the hint.
Note--I gave a good run at the vim-blogger integration, but couldn't get it running. If anyone does, I'd still love a vim-based solution.
In the meantime, I'm a happy Ecto customer. Much better than trying to manage posts always online and always by the web.
