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Tel Aviv

by | Jun 24, 2006 | evilzenscientist, travel, Uncategorized

I’m in Tel Aviv, Israel for customer visits with Novell Israel.

Don’t be fooled by this picture of the city from my hotel – it really is all concrete from this view. I went for dinner tonight with Vered and Amit from the local team in the older part of the city – known as the White City.

It’s actually the ‘New Town’ and it all dates from the 1930s – it’s all Bauhaus style architecture – unique – and it’s listed by UNESCO.

Tel Aviv

People often forget that Tel Aviv is right on the Mediterranean – here is the view the other way:

Beach

Starbucks Fair Trade Campaign

by | Jun 23, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Gonetoutah, Uncategorized

Mmm

An interesting campaign from the Organic Consumers Association to pursuade Starbucks to stop using ‘crappy hormone filled milk’.

The time has come to kick rBGH off the market, once and for all. If Starbucks, a major buyer of milk, were to reject rBGH dairy products, we could effectively eliminate it from the market.

Similarly, while Starbucks has slowly bought more certified Fair Trade coffee, it represents only a very small percentage of their total coffee (about 3.7%). Starbucks rarely offers certified Fair Trade coffee as their coffee of the day, nor has it followed its own policy of brewing Fair Trade coffee, on demand.

Kinda fits with my earlier Starbucks post..

Cell phone pain

by | Jun 23, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Technology, Uncategorized

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Cingular have managed to turn my US cell phone into a brick while outside the US.
I can dial my voice mail – and that’s it.

Same phone just a few weeks ago was working perfectly – I was in Germany and I could dial globally. Now I just get ‘calls barred’ and a nice message in German.

Cingular are working on it.. Not much fun.

[Edit – I spoke again to the Cingular international support team – they now realise that something got broken on my account. They turned off my international roaming in one of the billing cycles. They said 72 hours to fix it. I said I spend thousands per month with them – fix it tonight or I go to another vendor. They promised by midnight Central time. Nice. Here’s hoping.]