jontukontar

I probably should have done this entry first, but at the time I didn't know what (if anything) I was going to do with my LiveJournal account.

• I am a person who likes to tinker.
• I am a person who likes to research.
• I am a person who can be very stubborn.

I typically get involved in projects where I know nothing about the project other than that it interests me.  I work along the edges doing various things that I hope will make it more successful.  Most times, this involves a significant amount of research. 

For instance, the work I did for NNTP\\RSS had to be researched because JNT was designed with an older version of Sun's JRE in mind.  In the end, I discovered that I had to duplicate and rename a directory tree to get JNT to function as it was designed to.

Or more recently, with InnoSetup, I had to learn how to modify Pascal so that a JRE detection script would work correctly.  I also used a similiar script to detect the presence of something that could read PDF files.

My mother has said that my heritage consists of a lot of stubborn people.  She may be right (maybe urskr    can comment on that) since I'm split in twain betwixt (<- probably a bit redundant) German and Scotch.  I don't like to give up and I don't like saying "No".  Usually, if I can't find an answer (not always one that I like), it means that I haven't done enough research.

Update:  For those who may be concerned, this is not a slight against Urs or Germans.  I am proud to have a German heritage, even going so far as to study that as a foreign language during my High School years.  Unfortunately, I remember little of what I was taught in those four years of linguistic classes.  I honestly wish that I had the same opportunity to study the other portion of my heritage but that's not so easily done in my part of the US.  (Iowa was mostly settled by German immigrants, particularly the Amana Colonies.)


Anyway, I had to work today and watch my niece and nephew tonight. So, I won't be getting much accomplished with plug-ins this day. I should have time to add another style tomorrow morning.