Tag Archives: מיכאל האפרתי

Returning to Auckland Aero Club

Posted by Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי on

A few weeks ago I returned back to my favorite Aero Club in New Zealand

Almost 30 years ago, back in 1994, I tried to feel for the first time how it is to fly an airplane at Auckland Aero Club in New Zealand.

Back then, I was sent to New Zealand for a week on behalf of Amdocs, in order to conduct meetings with a local Telecom company that worked with the Ministry of Tourism, offering them the development of Information Kiosks.

I used an old 8mm video I filmed back in 1994, in order to locate my old flying school. Here is a snapshot of Auckland Aero Club from that old video:

Here is Auckland back then (1994).

Luckily, I kept the Pilot Log Book with the information about the flying lessons I took back then, and during my recent visit, (almost 2 months this time), after I took some flying lessons in other countries, I came back wishing to continue from where I left off…

That morning, at 7:00 AM, I went jogging in Auckland. I ran 12 Km from Auckland to Mission Bay and back.

My Facebook post that morning

A few hours later, I flew a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, with the guidance of William Lee-Johnson, to Auckland, and above Mission Bay, the same area I ran to that morning (12 Km run).

From my running app
Taking off…

Auckland from above

Ruth, sat at the back and took some amazing photos.

The instructor, William Lee-Johnson, was very cooperative and filled my Log Book (from 1996) after we landed.

Looking forward to my next flight! To be continued…

Participating in the Phantom Run

Posted by Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי on

Running 12 Km as part of the Phantom Run in North Vancouver.

After 9 Km

The Phantom Run 2021, took place on November 13th. For me, it was an extremely chalanging run with 1/2Km accends and decends, some of them are stiff stairs. It was shocking, being the first time running in this trail. I finally made it and enjoyed a warm soup.

Project for the blind people

Posted by Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי on

As part of a Secured Globe, Inc. project with Freedom Scientific, Inc., the creators of JAWS, and as part of adding support to Albanian, I developed a small tool for converting PDF files into text so another piece of software we develop can convert thousands of e-books in Albanian and using AI techniques, create an optimal list of sentences in the Albanian language that can be recorded and added to the JAWS platform.

Github Repo

https://github.com/securedglobernd/SG_PDF2Text

Download Link

https://gograb.site/SG_PDF2TXT.exe

Github issue with previous versions

Posted by Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי on

I work a lot with Github and we, at Secured Globe, Inc. manage our own repo as well. When our programmers push changes in the source code, I somestime need to revert back and I do that by going to the previous version, download it, and compare to the recent one, then update it and push.

I contacted Github’s support after finding out that when I go to a previous version of the source code, and downloading it, I get the latest version.
This wasn’t like that before and seems to be a bug in their system.

I created a small POC video:

I received the following response today:

Hi Michael,

Thanks for reporting this!

We have had a few reports of this bug over the last couple of days and our engineers are looking in to it. It’s very useful for us to have more data points, so thank you for submitting this report! I’ve passed it on to the team.

As a temporary workaround, you can manually construct the download URL with the commit SHA you want to download:

https://github.com/{username}/{projectname}/archive/{sha}.zip

I’m afraid our system is going to mark this ticket as “solved” now that the issue has been created with the engineering team, but that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten about it! In the meantime, please let us know if there is anything else we can do for you and we will be happy to assist!

Thanks,

Tammy
GitHub Support

Running the “Loop” (New York, Central Park)

Posted by Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי on

After Chicago and a short break in Pittsburgh, PA, we returned back to New York. Next morning went to our daily routine which is doing the “Loop“.

The Loop sums up to 10 Km.

We like to shop at JackRabbit, in Colombus Circle, where there is a huge map of the loop.

The loop

Running in Chicago

Posted by Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי on

Last time we were in Chicago we caught the flu and were busy finalizing an investment deal so this time we couldn’t wait to start our run. Not easy to find parking in Chicago. The trail was superb!