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  1. thinking about shamir, kikar and of course shibolet.10:44 AM Oct 24th from web
  2. wishes everyone a good petek: http://www.balashon.com/200...5:51 AM Oct 9th from web
  3. looking for the book "What's the Good Word?" by William Safire. Anyone have a copy or can borrow one for me? I need one entry.1:47 PM Sep 30th from web
  4. sad about William Safire - the inspiration for Balashon.1:25 PM Sep 28th from web
  5. managed to sneak in this post before Yom Kippur: http://bit.ly/1iiop7 - cherem, harem, and Hermon!6:54 AM Sep 27th from web
  6. hoping to work on shibolet this week. If there's room - both shibolet and shibolet shual.11:27 AM Sep 20th from web
  7. finally finished the solet post! http://bit.ly/ngX4K - now with clickable footnotes!1:32 PM Sep 14th from web
  8. Getting very close to finishing the solet article. Was inspired by touring Ben Yehuda's room, in a tour led by Eliezer Ben Yehuda!4:05 PM Sep 12th from web
  9. I think I figured out how the word semolina developed. If I can trust my instinct, then I guess I can start the post...1:04 PM Aug 27th from web
  10. finally finished translating the article. Now I just need to read & understand it, and put together the solet post.1:11 PM Aug 19th from web
  11. still working on the Italian "semola" article. Finished page 169. According to Word, I've been working on this doc for 2746 minutes.12:32 PM Jul 26th from web
  12. hope to get back to translating the article tonight. looking forward to trying microsoft's new translating service6:19 AM Jul 21st from web
  13. still working on the Italian article - tonight I start page 164 (out of 177)9:11 AM Jul 8th from web
  14. It's hard to translate an Italian article about bran, when their language academy is called "Academy of the Bran" (della Crusca)9:09 AM Jun 26th from web
  15. Just saw this: http://www.wordorigins.org/... - frustrating. I don't know if I can update all my links...10:01 AM Jun 23rd from web
  16. still correcting the OCR of an article in Italian about the word "semolina", so I can run it through Google Translate11:53 AM Jun 14th from web
  17. got the new Steinsaltz Menachot at Shavua HaSefer. Should be really helpful for the solet post!8:37 AM Jun 12th from web
  18. I'm excited to make my next (Blogger) post in Google Docs - it has all the functionality I've been look for (even footnotes)!12:00 PM Jun 1st from web
  19. working on ogen and aguna - and how they're likely NOT related...12:42 AM May 25th from web
  20. just found an article about the semantic shift of "semola"! who cares that it's 23 pages in Italian...11:18 AM May 17th from web