Welcome to my lair of inter-web despair. OK, it isn't really that bad.
Hello, my name is Jezra. I'm a software/web developer, musician, and all around general tinkerer currently living in the wonderful city of Petaluma, California. As a knowledge seeker I like to spend my time in the persuit of:
If you have a problem, and you can't get the A-Team or MacGyver, drop me a line, I might be able to help (credentials available upon request).
Hello, my name is Jezra. I'm a software/web developer, musician, and all around general tinkerer currently living in the wonderful city of Petaluma, California. As a knowledge seeker I like to spend my time in the persuit of:
- software development
- playing music
- human locomotion
- photography
- competitive whisker growing
- tinkering
- some of this, some of that
If you have a problem, and you can't get the A-Team or MacGyver, drop me a line, I might be able to help (credentials available upon request).
Sun 25 Jul 2010
###A bit of Computer Repair
My good buddy [Constance](http://atrainwreckwithwords.wordpress.com) has a rather old computer. Actually, it is an original [ibook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook) with a *speedy* 300Mhz processor and a whopping 192M of RAM.
OK, the RAM has obviously been updated, but other than that, the computer is still original.
One day, Constance told me a tale of tripping over her computer cord and then the adapter started sparking. Crap! The machine may be crap, but it is all she has and it has **all** of her writings on it.
Ah, the slow as dirt machine. See that "yo-yo" power adapter? Aside from always burn...
Read the full post at jezra.net/blog/seriously_that_thing_is_garbage
My good buddy [Constance](http://atrainwreckwithwords.wordpress.com) has a rather old computer. Actually, it is an original [ibook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook) with a *speedy* 300Mhz processor and a whopping 192M of RAM.
OK, the RAM has obviously been updated, but other than that, the computer is still original.
One day, Constance told me a tale of tripping over her computer cord and then the adapter started sparking. Crap! The machine may be crap, but it is all she has and it has **all** of her writings on it.
Ah, the slow as dirt machine. See that "yo-yo" power adapter? Aside from always burn...
Read the full post at jezra.net/blog/seriously_that_thing_is_garbage
Fri 16 Jul 2010
Quite a few of my coding projects have a large text field where the user is expected to do a lot of typing. Actually, it would appear that **none** of my [projects](http://www.jezra.net/projects) have a large text field. I suppose I should make [markdowner](http://www.jezra.net/blog/A_markdown_editorviewer_in_Python) and [scripsi](http://www.launchpad.net/scripsi) *official* jezra.net projects. Anyway, both of the *previously* mentioned apps have a large text field where the user types and types and types( hey, they are text editing programs ).
* scripsi is a special purpose dual paned text editor written in [Vala](http://live.gnome.org/Vala)
* markdowner is a special ...
Read the full post at jezra.net/blog/keeping_a_GTK_TextView_cursor_in_view
* scripsi is a special purpose dual paned text editor written in [Vala](http://live.gnome.org/Vala)
* markdowner is a special ...
Read the full post at jezra.net/blog/keeping_a_GTK_TextView_cursor_in_view
Sun 11 Jul 2010
###The Warm Up
Not very long ago, I made [three stickers](http://www.jezra.net/blog/photograph_sticker) from a photograph of yours truly. Because the original intent of making the stickers was never met, I decided to give away the stickers with a simple contest.
Sticker #1 has gone across the Atlantic Ocean an now resides in Germany.
Sticker #2 has traveled across the United States and now resides in Upstate New York.
Sticker #3: well this sticker is probably going to travel more than #1 and #2 combined (and then possibly doubled).
Wait, didn't the third postcard come from Switzerland? How can the sticker have such an unknown...
Read the full post at jezra.net/blog/A_tale_of_three_sticker
Not very long ago, I made [three stickers](http://www.jezra.net/blog/photograph_sticker) from a photograph of yours truly. Because the original intent of making the stickers was never met, I decided to give away the stickers with a simple contest.
Sticker #1 has gone across the Atlantic Ocean an now resides in Germany.
Sticker #2 has traveled across the United States and now resides in Upstate New York.
Sticker #3: well this sticker is probably going to travel more than #1 and #2 combined (and then possibly doubled).
Wait, didn't the third postcard come from Switzerland? How can the sticker have such an unknown...
Read the full post at jezra.net/blog/A_tale_of_three_sticker