Archives for A Programmers Life

A Truly Free Domain

If you have ever had a personal website, like me, you would know that your url to your website is important However if you are also don’t like to pay for things that you can get for free, such as webhosting, you end up with a url that is not as nice as a top [...]

My very own home

Well it finally happened. No we moved into our own home like 6 months ago get with the program. Today I purchased my first domain So as of today welcome to jprogrammer.net a nice short sucsinct way to acess the random ramblings that don’t happen as often as they should.

Death in a Digital Age

I have recently experienced a death in the family, which has started me wondering about how our digital persona’s will live on. I personally spend alot of time on the internet, a couple of hours a day at least. Spending my time reading email and rss, writing a blog entry (ocasionally ), particiapating in online [...]

The house is finished!

Have you ever noticed that as time goes buy your passion for different things start to wain? I do it seems some things that you thought was important is not so important any more. Like blogging for instance It has been quite a while now mainly because work has been heating up for me. I [...]

House Update

Most people would know we bought land in April to build our first house on. And since then we have been trying very hard to get approval to build the house we want on it. There was a clause in our title, Memorandum of Common Provisions to be exact. That no structure within the first [...]

The coolness of a 3D desktop

Well it’s happened I have been working full time for over a year now and I am just getting more and more slack at writing valuable stuff on my blog, he he he. But something most wonderful has happened over the Christmas break the alsa bug report tracking the problem with my soundcard has heated [...]

Ready Set Rant

Well are you all ready for yet another rant about people and their cars? Well I certainly am. Last Friday I was pulling out of a car park and I noticed as I was pulling back that the person directly behind me had their reversing lights on also but as a I was already going [...]

Big News

Well once again me like some of my friends find it hard to actually get to the content page and add new stuff to their blogs but I think the news of the last 2 weeks really deserves a blog post. Well probably the biggest news is from this week, Merinda and I have bought [...]

The Long Silence

Well it’s been well over a month since my last post I am getting really really slack. What’s happened in that time? Well quite a lot really. Holidays Flights And a stupid film And I will outline them in that order Well last week Merinda and I packed up and went on a 4 day [...]

Undelivered Mail And Incredible Building

Well aren’t I the lazy boy I haven’t put up a post in ages…. Well this week has been a bit stressful in getting a build ready so hopefully I can be excused. If you are a /. reader you may have heard about a small start up called blue security who had a novel [...]