Happy New Year! I'll be offline until Sunday.

The Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana) starts tonight. It is usually a two-day holiday, but this year it ends when Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath which is on Saturday) begins, so we have three days of holidays ahead of us.

So no new posts here until Sunday. I’ll be busy praying (during Rosh Hashana, we look back on the year and ask for forgiveness for the not-so-great things we did, and ask G-d to bless us with good for the year that is ahead), eating (we eat two proper meals every day of the holiday, meaning appetizers, main course and dessert – not great for the waistline, but at least it’s homemade food), and enjoying my break from work and quality time with family and friends.

So I’d just like wish everyone a happy New Year, and may we all be blessed with peace, prosperity, happiness and good health in the coming year! Shana tova!

One of the things we do on Rosh Hashana is blow the shofar, a type of horn. On that note, here’s a video in the spirit of the holidays:

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=z-d6f6T_WtQ[/youtube]

Ryan

Happy Jewish New Year Miriam 🙂

This reminded me that I was meant to write a happy birthday post for one of my websites but forgot! It’s up now though … http://www.dunedinicehockey.co.nz/forum/index.php?topic=984.0
Jennifer

Happy Belated New Year and G’mar Chatimah Tovah, too. Was very happy to see the info about wordcamp, too.
Miriam

Thanks Ryan and Jennifer.

Jennifer – you think you’ll come to WordCamp Israel? It should be fun!
Jennifer

Would love tom even if I don’t know my PHP from MySQL. Have the final dates been announced yet?
Miriam

Jennifer – you don’t have to know PHP and MySQL to appreciate WordPress. It seems like WordCamp will be on Oct. 25, but for some reason the planning has stalled. I’ll keep you updated.
Jennifer

Thanks Miriam. I tried leaving a comment on the Israel English WordCamp page but it is apparently in moderation over there. Would probably be a good idea to make the date/place announcement on the English page as well.
Miriam

Jennifer – I’ll see what’s going on over there at the WordCamp site. The date is almost finalized, and it looks like it will be Oct. 22 in the end. As soon as things are set, I’ll publicize them over there.
Jennifer

Thanks Miriam. The earlier the better; some of us have to arrange to take a day off from work. 🙂

Happy New Year! I’ll be offline until Sunday.

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