http://www.ezran.org/blog Ezra -ez- Nugroho's blog Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:15:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/05/transparency/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/05/transparency/#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 02:47:53 +0000 admin http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=311 Successes should be celebrated Mistakes should be corrected Failures should be learned from Cover-ups should be punished ]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/05/transparency/feed/ 1 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/02/koan-10-5-x-4/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/02/koan-10-5-x-4/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:32:21 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=281 One of the rather bizarre classes I took during college was called ‘Spiritual Care and Healing‘. No, it wasn’t a religious class, but it was certainly a spiritual one. In it, I learned things like drawing with your eyes closed, writing with your non-dominant hand, journaling for health, imagining white blood cells as members of elite [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/02/koan-10-5-x-4/feed/ 0 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/12/once-in-a-new-year-blue-moon/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/12/once-in-a-new-year-blue-moon/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:07:06 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=274 New Year Eve happens every year, but a Blue Moon New Year Eve only happens once in twenty years. No, the moon will not turn blue. But the moon will shine brightly, for it will be a full moon; the second one in the month! Tomorrow is such a night, guys! How special is that!! May I [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/12/once-in-a-new-year-blue-moon/feed/ 0 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/03/problem-with-open-textbooks-they-are-free/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/03/problem-with-open-textbooks-they-are-free/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:48:00 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=233 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/03/problem-with-open-textbooks-they-are-free/feed/ 3 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/03/swoopo-is-a-scam/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/03/swoopo-is-a-scam/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:12:53 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=228 TechChrunch has an article about Swoopo saying that it has a Hint of Scam. Well, SHAME ON YOU TECHCHRUNCH!! It doesn’t have a ‘Hint’ of scam, IT IS VERY BLATANT THAT SWOOPO IS A SCAM! I am very saddened to find out about Swoopo today, in light of the other scams that have been going on [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/03/swoopo-is-a-scam/feed/ 41 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/03/national-scandal-bbq/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/03/national-scandal-bbq/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:44:34 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=224 So the theme of the day is ‘The Grilling of AIG Execs‘ over the 160+ million dollars that was given away as bonuses for ‘the best and the brightest’ leaders of the company. People’s outrage over the bonuses is certainly well based, considering that AIG has been given billions of bail out money, and that, considering [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/03/national-scandal-bbq/feed/ 0 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/03/better-to-say-sorry-than-to-ask-permission/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/03/better-to-say-sorry-than-to-ask-permission/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:56:37 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=219 I’ve read that phrase numerous times from the quips of two Bugzilla systems. Both systems did not cite the original person who coined the phrase, which make me believe that it was entered by the founder of companies to encourage employees to take bold decissions. Once I did consciously decided to do something extraordinarily bold in [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/03/better-to-say-sorry-than-to-ask-permission/feed/ 0 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/02/human-chemistry/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/02/human-chemistry/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:01:24 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=201 I just had an unusual enlightenment this afternoon, as witness some event took place. Human interaction dynamics are often called “chemistry” for all the right reasons. Persons are the elements, and they react with each other with such a chemistry-like reactions. Elements and persons have different degrees of reactivity. Elements and persons have different polarities, and some have [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/02/human-chemistry/feed/ 1