http://www.ezran.org/blog Ezra -ez- Nugroho's blog Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:15:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Videos in ePubs? Are you serious? Well, eventually our books will look like the newspapers in Harry Potter movies (MPal, 2010). Just imagine, not just static images to embellish the text, but also the motion pictures and sound of people screaming and yelling in Azkaban. But are we there yet? This is what I found [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/07/embedded-video-support-in-epubs/ 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/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/04/simple-recipe-for-pdf-stitching/ 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 [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/03/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-fish-literally/ 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 [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/03/git-resources-for-svn-users/ Last night I downloaded the latest VMWare Server from Vmware website, it was version 2.0.2. I needed it because I was trying to experiment with several Open Office server solution, and I need to simulate tiered environment. First attempt to install it in my Kubuntu 9.10 host, running kernel 2.6.31-16-generic-pae didn’t work, VMWare server fails [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/02/vmware-server-2-0-2-on-ubuntu-9-10/ 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/ 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 [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/02/koan-10-5-x-4/ 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!! [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/12/once-in-a-new-year-blue-moon/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/11/happy-for-kubuntu-910/