Tikkun Olam

The Jerusalem Post is reporting a " mysterious explosion " in the city of Isfahan, Iran's third largest city, in which there is a nuclear reactor and other sites where uranium is being enriched for reactor fuel.  "In the afternoon, there was a noise like an explosion, but we don't have any information from security forces on the source of the noise," Gholamreza Ansari was quoted as saying. The Mehr news agency said other unidentified Iranian news media had reported that the blast took place at a petrol station at a town near Isfahan city. Isfahan is home to nuclear experimental reactors, and also a uranium enrichment facility for producing nuclear fuel. CNN has satellite photos of the damage done (did I hear somebody say that Iran claims that it was a 'gas station', not a nuclear facility...?)  Remember the deceptively sophisticated computer virus called the Stuxnet virus ?  It was discovered (by geeks at Symantec , I believe) that this ...

I haven't blogged since August 6th.  Good thing I didn't sign up for "Nablopomo" (National Blog Posting Month) for August.  I would have been run out of town for noncompliance.  My time has been taken up with resume (curriculum vitae to some) editing and interviews.  I am actively seeking work, and between that, and guests who stayed over last Shabbat involving much preparation, I was a victim of "so many____(fill in the blank with everything I did last week and this), so little time." It's interesting to note that even though daily blogging became slightly stressful at times (when will I write? What will I write?!), it kept me in practice, and honed my skills, if you can call this a 'skill.'  Now that I have not blogged in exactly one week, I feel somewhat rusty. It's not as if there is no news to blog about. I think there is plenty--there almost always is.  Some examples?  How about Russia loading fuel into Iran's nuclear reactor ...