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/2010/03/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-fish-literally/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/03/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-fish-literally/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:17:44 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=301 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 [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/03/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-fish-literally/feed/ 0 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/03/git-resources-for-svn-users/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/03/git-resources-for-svn-users/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:25:32 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=297 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 [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/03/git-resources-for-svn-users/feed/ 0 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/02/ezra-at-sourceforge/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/02/ezra-at-sourceforge/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:08:18 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/02/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… ]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/02/ezra-at-sourceforge/feed/ 0 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/09/python-daemon-code/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/09/python-daemon-code/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:18:33 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/09/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!! ]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/09/python-daemon-code/feed/ 0 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/08/highlight-of-the-day-ive-been-plagiarized/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/08/highlight-of-the-day-ive-been-plagiarized/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:53:38 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=257 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 [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/08/highlight-of-the-day-ive-been-plagiarized/feed/ 1 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/05/twitter-discovery-51109/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/05/twitter-discovery-51109/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 17:06:28 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/05/twitter-discovery-51109/ Discovered via @christinelu that @jack_welch and @SuzyWelch are twittering! A must follow… ]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/05/twitter-discovery-51109/feed/ 0 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/01/twittering-starting-now/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/01/twittering-starting-now/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:33:33 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=192 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 [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/01/twittering-starting-now/feed/ 0 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/01/shocked-topless-house-cleaning-service-san-jose/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/01/shocked-topless-house-cleaning-service-san-jose/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:13:17 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=190 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 [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/01/shocked-topless-house-cleaning-service-san-jose/feed/ 4 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/01/tribute/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/01/tribute/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:20:15 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=180 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 [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/01/tribute/feed/ 1 http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/10/rain-and-change/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/10/rain-and-change/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:28:54 +0000 ezran http://www.ezran.org/blog/?p=137 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 [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/10/rain-and-change/feed/ 1