camel's back blogging

The name of my blog: MeDarom, comes from Hebrew. Meh means from. and Darom means the south. So this blog is coming 'from the south.' I'll be posting about life here in Beer Sheva, a compact, dynamic city in the south of Israel, surrounded by the Negev desert.

The Story of the Liberated Bicycles

I managed to buy a pretty good bicycle for 30 sheq (about $10).




Well, that was the cost of the pliers I used to liberate my new bike. They are great pliers, with comfortable handles and a lot of heft.

*for a similar story, see Andrea's blog *

At this point, my honest listeners, you are probably wondering if theft was involved in the procurement of my wheels. Well, lets just say that where I live, I noticed that there were many bicycles in all states of disrepair. I pointed out to the guard that there are perhaps more bicycles than there are owners of them and he agreed. Then, just to cover all my bases, I casually mentioned this to the director of the building.

He said that it was an interesting and difficult question... and that perhaps I had the answer. He wasn't going to say to do it, or not to.

So I liberated the bicycle, fixed it up, and bought a bigger lock.

blog tech

Why I am using the technology I am using. Blogger is a mature self publishing site which makes it easy to create and maintain a blog and which is connected with many key Google services. Such as:
[] Adsense, which makes it very easy to monetize your site (hence the ads) and to track where users come from.
[] Google Analytics provides powerful tools for tracking users to your site. You can even see on a map which cities people are connecting from.