Note: this is part 2. Read part 1 of the trip here. Early Saturday morning on Islay, and we are set to go on another adventure! After eating a delicious breakfast that our lovely host prepared for us, we were set to try and explore some more distilleries. Unfortunately there were no tours at Lagavulin and Ardbeg on a Saturday, so we decided to drive to the place where one of my most favorite pictures was taken - the Carraig Fhada Lighthouse. It was a relatively short drive, the road eventually becomes almost undrivable. We parked our...

Every whisky lover gets, at some point, to experience whisky from the island of Islay in Scotland. This experience will be remembered throughout his life - it can be either love at first taste, or loathing for eternity. Not everybody can handle the intensity and the powerful peaty flavor of (most) Islay whiskies, some may even stop drinking whisky altogether. Others, like myself, fall in love with the flavor and rarely able to drink anything else. The magic that is Islay begins to show its beauty even on the way to the island. Either by a flight from...

I use the awesome Fiddler2 to debug HTTP, and I needed to compare sessions. Fiddler has a support for this, but when I clicked Tools - Compare Sessions, it prompted me to install Windiff.exe. I haven't found a way to set the preferred Diff tool in the UI (via Options), so after looking at the click handler for the menu in Reflector, I found out that the value can be set via Registry key: Open Registry, go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Fiddler2 Add a new String Value called CompareTool and set the...

Google "recursion".

Skype for the iPhone was released in the App Store today. Unfortunately, it was crashing on startup - it showed the Skype blue logo and then crashed back to the home screen. A quick Google query led me to discover that I'm not alone - this affects many "jailbroken" iPhone users. UPDATE: To fix this on a jailbroken iPhone, update the package "Mobile Substrate" on Cydia to version 0.9.2803-1 (or higher). After the update Skype works great!

I just found out that it's possible to copy the text from any message box to clipboard by pressing Ctrl-C when the message box appears! Think of all the times you needed to search for an exact error message text, and needed to switch back and forth between the message and your browser window. For example: Pressing Ctrl-C will copy the following to the clipboard: [Window Title] notepd [Content] Windows cannot find 'notepd'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. [OK] This also works in Windows XP.

Hello, my name is Igal, and I'm an addict. Well, not really, but I sure like gadgets. I bought an iPhone (1st generation) immediately after its price dropped from $600 to $400. I love it and I use it for almost everything. Except reading. I tried reading on the iPhone - it supports PDF attachments, for example, you could open a PDF file from an attached mail message, and the iPhone would display it perfectly. Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to read on that tiny screen for a long time, and the backlit LCD...

JetBrains just announced that ReSharper 4.5 has reached Beta status, and now available to download. Here are some of my first impressions: The installation was a snap - it asked to remove the previous version (4.1), and installed the new version instead, while keeping the previous settings. There is a noticeable improvement in the Visual Studio 2008 responsiveness after startup, Start Page appears to be frozen much less than before. Memory usage has dramatically improved! devenv.exe is no longer the hungriest process on my system, Firefox has...

One of the main selling points of the Kindle is Whispernet - a free EVDO Internet (provided by Sprint), which allows downloading content on the Kindle, browsing the web, reading RSS feeds, and searching Wikipedia. This is all brilliantly illustrated in this xkcd comic: Unfortunately, Sprint's coverage of Israel is pretty bad :) There are two "registrations" of the Kindle. The first one is on the Amazon site. Since I purchased the device for myself, in my own account, the Kindle had automatically been assigned to me. This allows me to purchase Kindle content on...

Welcome to my fortress tall... I've finally decided to give this blogging thing a try. So please, stay tuned until I figure something remotely interesting to write...