Cloudy, with a Chance of Fish. Literally !
An interesting reading I got this morning was about a small town of 700 in Australia, Lajamanu, that had an interesting rain. A fishy rain!
While quite freaky, apparently fish rain is not too rare, a documentary video below accounts about 600 occurrence in a year. The interesting thing about this one is that the nearest [...]
Git resources for svn users
Many Subversion (svn) users are jumping the wagon to the coolest new kid in the source code management tool block, Git.
Git does provide a lot of improvements over svn, but it can be very unintuitive at times. These two are more different than they are alike, so it’s just wouldn’t work to simply use git [...]
Ezra at Sourceforge
I was looking for my exact username in Sourceforge, so I searched for ‘ezra.’
Look what I found: an open source project named after me!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezra/
I know, I know… It was probably not named after this pompous and megalomaniac Ezra…
Python Daemon Code
No! I will not claim that I have the code for you!
But I sure know where you can find it. Here: A simple unix/linux daemon in python.
I tried it when I was trying to daemonize a my python program that reads and processes emails. Works like a charm. Thanks a lot Sander Marechal!!
Highlight of the day, I’ve been plagiarized
It’s often said that for recorded artists to have really made it if Weird Al Yankovic has make a parody of their works. Weird Al’s selection on a parody source is a recognition that the tunes of the original work has sunk in to the subconscious ears of most Americans. Otherwise the parody will not [...]
Twitter discovery, 5/11/09
Discovered via @christinelu that @jack_welch and @SuzyWelch are twittering! A must follow…
Twittering starting now
As I promised in here, I started twittering today. You can follow me at http://twitter.com/ezrahn.
As I created my account, twitter asked me if I want to start following both people that I may know and famous twitter accounts. I encountered a few surprises.
First, I was surprised to find out that there were so many of [...]
Shocked: Topless House Cleaning Service (San Jose)
My wife just found this from Craigslist: Toppless House Cleaning Service (San Jose) (typo was in the original post)
I am not sure if times really demand desperate measures or if this is just a joke:
Here is the original post:
Toppless House Cleaning Service (San Jose)
Reply to: jackieb69691@yahoo.com [?]
Date: 2009-01-17, 8:44PM PST
We are a very discreat [...]
Tribute
While graduating from Penn State, I bulk-applied to any jobs in the school job bank that has a word ‘Open Source’ in the description.
My resume was attractive. Stated in there, a thesis about using Ant-based algorithm to solve an NP-complete problem. Spikesource wanted someone who can speak Apache Ant, the build tool. I was modelling [...]
Rain and Change
Today and this weekend, we are going to have a long period of light rain here in they Bay. The west coast wet winter is getting closser, I guess, and for once I am loving it.
My wife and I bought a house prior to our wedding, it’s a small house (1200 sq feet) in a [...]
