tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39354682012-01-29T19:01:23.740+07:00information technology, network, security, Indonesia, progressive rock music, budi rahardjo (or raharjo), education, life ... (in Bahasa Indonesia and/or English)budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.comBlogger5381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-85990405397561399182012-01-07T18:56:00.002+07:002012-01-07T18:58:06.389+07:00

I wish it has no MSG, but judging from the bowl (which has a specific brand) I don't think I will get my wish :)

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-28552093041163344892012-01-05T18:11:00.004+07:002012-01-05T18:53:19.396+07:00

I don't know wethere I should make a resolution or this is even a resolution, but I just want to write this down. This is what I want to do everyday: read a few pages from a conventional book; read a few pages from an ebook; write a few pages for book(s); write a blog post. This is not easy, but I want to push myself. There may be some missing dates or inclomplete tasks, but I have to try. How

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-75253618399704846502012-01-01T12:02:00.000+07:002012-01-01T12:02:42.083+07:00

First day of 2012. I tried to post photos, status, etc. on my facebook. They don't show up in my timeline. It shows up in main page (facebook.com) though, but it will be pushed by new updates/status. Does anybody know what's going on? I don't like this timeline, but what can I do? There's no option for old facebook view. Too bad. (App designers, read this ... give users option to stay with old

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-42418838267313949202011-12-22T19:37:00.001+07:002011-12-22T19:37:17.398+07:00

I use seesmic web interface to access my twitter, but or the last couple of days I've been having problems with. I cannot login. What gives? I even tried to change my password. Mail confirmation was received and I changed the password according the instruction, but I still cannot login. Right now, I am using twitter web interface. If this problem persists, I may have to ditch seesmic. Oh well.

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-49298542963567344202011-12-12T23:09:00.000+07:002011-12-12T23:09:44.403+07:00

This morning I was asked to give a keynote speech ini a conference. The original keynote speaker was not able to make it and the conference was started this morning. I have spare time in this afternoon, so I said that I am able to do it in this afternoon. The main idea of my speech is to encourage everybody to do research in the future area. Computational intelligence methodologies and tools are

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-68834033811097370322011-11-02T19:06:00.000+07:002011-11-02T19:06:13.189+07:00

On my gmail screen there is a note saying that I should look into Gmail's new look. Before switching to the new look, I looked into the features. For some reasons, there's no control of the fonts! I am always partial to fonts. I use userstyle (stylish) just to control Gmail's fonts. I hate to switch. I like to stay, but I may have to switch :(   Ouch

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-59418544721264518302011-10-16T10:10:00.001+07:002011-10-16T10:11:00.912+07:00

This is my breakfast this morning ... plus tea (and coffee afterwards). So, what's yours? Good morning ...

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-52843889618690239342011-10-03T15:09:00.001+07:002011-10-03T15:13:10.408+07:00

I was surprised to see Google Chrome advertisement in Indonesian TV channel(s). Some people already mentioned that awhile ago, but I didn't notice. And then I saw the ads. Good stuff.

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-41697069794927933012011-09-26T12:15:00.001+07:002011-09-26T12:15:47.790+07:00

I have just noticed that Blogspot (blogger) has a new interface. It is cleaner, nicer, and more "modern". So far, I am enjoying it. This post is just a test of this new interface. With new and clean interface, I might blog more often here ... :)  No promises though

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-88352550140160198582011-08-23T09:51:00.004+07:002011-08-23T10:16:39.364+07:00

Next week, I will be travelling to Singapore. One of the things I found out in my previous trips was difficulty in getting WiFi access. It is strage, since in Bandung or Jakarta I can find WiFi access easier. In Singapore, I usually try to use Wireless@SG first. It usually doesn't work. For example, in SimLim, there is a wireless@SG signal but once you're connected there's no route to anything

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-37799136783859476262011-08-21T09:28:00.004+07:002011-08-21T09:40:33.365+07:00

Here is a picture of my Introduction to IT class. Only 11 students in the class. Yay! It should be easier to teach? (Is it?) The size of class is dropping each year. Don't know why. Our "only" problem is the class is at noon. It's difficult to fight sleepyness :)

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-78071543245625725482011-08-13T09:35:00.002+07:002011-08-13T09:40:09.750+07:00

Somehow I have a strage feeling. A gulty feeling when I am reading. What gives? My funny reason is that when I am reading, I am not producing anything. I am not productive. I don't contribute to humanity. Thus, the guilty feeling. But, when I don't read, I don't gain knowledge. I am stuck. And I won't be able to produce anything good. So?

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-33426190846721969042011-08-10T17:38:00.002+07:002011-08-10T17:51:42.677+07:00

Next week, 17th August, we have our Indonesia independence day. This year is our (2011-1945) year of independence. Now, what does independence mean to me? It means a great deal. Although I was not born when Indonesia was colonialized, I now how it feels to live under oppression. These days we live under different kind of oppresions. Censorship is one of them.

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-1702396289266897652011-08-09T17:40:00.003+07:002011-08-09T17:44:22.091+07:00

New term has started. I am teaching "Introducti0n to Information Technology" for Pharmacy international class. This year, there are only 10 students in class. Yay! I just remembered. I should take a picture of the class. Oh well. Next class...

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-84870123979418559332011-07-30T21:15:00.002+07:002011-07-30T21:16:21.731+07:00

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-1389364120466890202011-07-27T18:30:00.005+07:002011-07-27T18:35:14.076+07:00

I am watching "maicih" twitter account. Interesting.Here's an example of an Indonesian entrepreneur, selling hot (potato?) chips, using twitter. The chips are popular and very hot. They scales to measure the hotness.They have moving vehicles (cars) and selling those hot popular chips in various streets in Bandung (and now other cities). If you want to buy their chips, all you have to do is look

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-70873873343617269822011-07-23T20:56:00.001+07:002011-07-23T20:57:49.279+07:00

When somebody put you in a circle, in g+ of course, you are notified. That's fine. But, the problem is there is an urge to add the user in my circle. Well, I just add them in "Misc." circle :)

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-26807281761259034912011-07-15T10:59:00.001+07:002011-07-15T11:00:41.820+07:00

How many googe plus circles can one has?Can you automate the creation of google plus circles? (scripted)

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-26742188070553558882011-07-12T06:27:00.002+07:002011-07-12T06:30:36.274+07:00

I hate retweet (RT). There are occasions that retweet is okay, but most of the time they are not.Google plus makes it easier for people to re-share posting. This is re-tweet in a grander scale! So now, I have the same video clip posted 10 times (or more) in my stream. They take up a lot of screen space.Grrr ...

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-58594486244947170102011-07-11T17:06:00.003+07:002011-07-11T17:13:04.173+07:00

After using Google plus (g+) for a while, I think I am still going to tweet (or whatever g+ equivalent) more in twitter. My reason is very simple; I need statistics of my activities. In twitter, I know the number of tweets I have made and so on. I know if I talk too much (the ratio of #tweets/#follower is much higher - a metric I invented ha ha ha).There's no such feedback (karma of some sort) in

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-76699424465313484212011-07-04T09:12:00.002+07:002011-07-04T09:17:23.022+07:00

I just wrote two articles in my blog. Unfortunately they are in Bahasa Indonesia.How to upgrade Macbook (aluminum) diskCan Google Plus Beat Facebook?Enjoy ...

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-46517276480444915432011-07-01T08:56:00.005+07:002011-07-01T09:03:46.967+07:00

There has been a new development in tech start-up companies in Indonesia. Online media companies are taken by big companies. The recent take over is detik.com by Chairul Tanjung. Wow! (Some people think that this might be related to politics; as preparation of Indonesian election. Electronic media is important in Indonesia!)The investor scene is also buzzing. Here's an example of Indonesian tech

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-33389082898544347592011-06-07T10:06:00.002+07:002011-06-07T10:12:05.243+07:00

We are using Lyx to write our paper (using IEEEtrans class, which is a 2-column layout). In this paper we have a figure that is to big to fit into one column. Poking here and there, I could not find information on how to do it. Searching the internet found pointers to do it in LaTeX, but no information on how to do it in Lyx.Finally, I decided to read the .lyx source manually (with "vi", of

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-14203043575128634452011-05-15T05:58:00.002+07:002011-05-15T06:00:34.371+07:00

James Durbin is out of American Idol. But, as far as I am concerned, he is the idol for this season (season 10). I think this is for the best. This reminds me of Daughtry, who is also great.

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-61006422996162798842011-05-14T01:03:00.003+07:002011-05-14T01:06:44.068+07:00

For the last few days, I've been getting "twitter over capacity error." Hmm... what's going on? I can't believe that they didn't do a capacity planning process. They must have done it, right?And because of it (twitter down), I posted this short twit-like posting.

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-49044325838929010712011-05-03T09:35:00.004+07:002011-05-03T09:39:58.641+07:00

When I go to "Preferences" and close the pop up window, it ends up creating a blank square on the top left corner of my screen. (See the screen shot.) Bug?Firefox 4.0.1 Mac OS X Leopard.

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-36449194702010744042011-04-30T13:24:00.006+07:002011-04-30T13:58:51.967+07:00

Last Wednesday I gave a talk on "Security Today 2011" as part of educating our clients (and future clients) about information security. In my talk, I talked about the trend of IT security in which application security is getting more attention. We have been investing our human resources to this relatively new field.We're going to give training(s) on this in June. We'll see you there.

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-58746512526742733212011-04-20T22:01:00.003+07:002011-04-20T22:17:11.619+07:00

I guess, you all have familiar with this case; somebody posted a video on YouTube and s/he became popular. Well, it happened (and is still happening) in Indonesia. This time, the star is Briptu Norman from Gorontalo.A video of Briptu Norman lipsyncing an Indian song was posted. (You can use your favorite search engine to find the video.) Apparently, people loved the way he "performed" in the

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-20400535213984353732011-04-10T05:40:00.000+07:002011-04-10T05:41:28.050+07:00

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-4137179918410480632011-04-03T19:19:00.001+07:002011-04-03T19:21:17.084+07:00

Last night our band played in Beatles Night at Cafe Dacosta. We played nine songs only. I wish we could play more, but we didn't have time to practise. Oh well. Next time perhaps? In the mean time I am wondering if anybody took some pictures ...

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-82493849450549254272011-03-31T06:44:00.003+07:002011-03-31T06:51:40.458+07:00

Sunday, 27 March 2011, I gave a presentation at TEDx Bandung. If you don't know what TED is, check this out. My topic is "Digital Entertainment in Indonesia: the future of". In essence, there are research and bussiness opportunities in Indonesia. Our culture is so much different, in that entertainment is our lives.It was a great event, with interesting speakers. I was told that the video will be

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-4946705618678607332011-03-13T20:04:00.002+07:002011-03-13T20:11:44.002+07:00

I have close to 5000 friends in my facebook account. Facebook does not allow me to add more friends. I guess they have design issues related to this.Let me give you and example. If I want to do something (say tagging a photo) which requires a list of names, it is so slow. It tries to download the list of all friends that I have (including their icons / avatars). I could imagine what 5000 friends

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-62057395906488559912011-03-13T17:37:00.001+07:002011-03-13T20:13:14.968+07:00

[effects are in the bag]These were the gears Luqman dan I took to our gig yesterday.

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-67009469227177552762011-03-11T05:31:00.003+07:002011-03-11T05:37:13.677+07:00

I think Simon said it a while back, your show has to be memorable (hopefully because of good not bad). So, I am using that criteria to measure yesterday's performance.For me, the last two performances, James Durbin is the best. Maybe it's because I love rock music and get it? But, I think James has a great vocal. I thought he can only scream, but yesterday's performance - Maybe I am amazed -

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-12251855942999407672011-03-11T05:21:00.002+07:002011-03-11T05:24:49.537+07:00

CrackBerry visited Mangga Dua Mall in Indonesia and was surprised by the number of stores selling BlackBerry :) Check this video out.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OB0lquizhEThis is what I said in earlier post; you won't believe it until you are here and see it for yourselves. But, next time you'll come here, it would be Android all over ...

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-62773870271998345122011-03-10T06:00:00.001+07:002011-03-10T06:00:53.890+07:00

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-34505149709339620562011-03-10T04:55:00.002+07:002011-03-10T05:13:07.251+07:00

I know that all markets are different, but Indonesian cyber market is quite unique. People outside Indonesia don't know that Indonesia is the biggest market of BlackBerry products. Or that we rank #3 in the number Facebook users. The most important thing is why?I believe the answer to this question is related to our culture. For example, we tend to talk not to write. When people have minutes of

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-39035336910581697302011-03-06T11:01:00.004+07:002011-03-06T11:13:00.854+07:00

Last week I was asked to give a lecture at IT Telkom. The topic was "IT Audit". I just had to squeeze this into my busy schedule (and I wasn't feeling well at that time). The class went okay.I am receiving emails from students asking guidance (what to do after they graduate). Well, this is actually another topic. On a side note, during the class there were only two questions from the students,

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-74730461162771268642011-03-06T10:40:00.001+07:002011-03-06T10:42:40.157+07:00

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-56419195055905913712011-03-06T01:37:00.002+07:002011-03-06T01:50:57.325+07:00

The meeting that I had yesterday (I can say yesterday because now it is 2 AM and technically it's already another day :) ) got me excited. It brings back the energy and spirit in me. It reminds me why I went back to Indonesia (instead of staying abroad). And when I got to this zone, I want to write. Thus, I blog. Even though I now I should be sleeping right now.There are many things that I want

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-87499135964132727582011-03-05T17:39:00.002+07:002011-03-05T17:47:01.287+07:00

I've just finished having an informal discussion with Steven Koltai, a Senior Advisor for the US State Department in charge of Global Entrepreneurship program. We talked about many things, but manily I talked about Bandung - or why Bandung is the tech center of Indonesia. There are so many things that I wanted to talk but could not because of time. He had to go back to Jakarta.Then it dawned on

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-83915008426151227052011-01-27T19:28:00.002+07:002011-01-27T19:30:31.690+07:00

It looks like that I photo food a lot. The reason is very simple, there are always food around me :) So I just have to photograph them. (Some thing with flowers, actually.)Maybe I should learn (and focus) more on food photography?

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-12422292360050976082011-01-26T13:46:00.003+07:002011-01-26T14:16:49.331+07:00

I am typing this while serving as a jury on an e-government award. It is interesting to see how e-government is becoming better. (I wanted to say more mature, but it is still a long way to go.)Most e-government applications are related to citizen complaints or permits-related.

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-71083670402608243202011-01-22T23:32:00.002+07:002011-01-22T23:41:24.201+07:00

These are pictures of food that I have taken recently. Look at their colors ... wow!

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-78547960629523262842011-01-07T07:12:00.002+07:002011-01-07T07:16:15.690+07:00

There will be times when we have differences (in opinions, ways to do things, etc.). It is sad if those differences can break relationships and friendships.The most important thing is that we don't have bad or malicious intention toward each other or do things that make the other parties ill feel.Folks, I hope we can have long lasting relationship and friendship.

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-47117117931865679422010-12-31T06:54:00.002+07:002010-12-31T07:01:20.574+07:00

This year I've been blessed with new photo gears. They are:Pentax Optio H90 (pocket camera)Nokia N8 (cellphone)Nikon D3100 (DSLR)I bought the Pentax as a replacement for my great Samsung L730. My daughter took the Samsung. Pentax Optio H90 is an inexpensive digital camera, yet it can produce great photos.The next one, Nokia N8, was given to me as a gift. The quality of its camera is superb. It

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-31345150624521373912010-12-29T20:47:00.003+07:002010-12-31T07:14:45.278+07:00

I was looking for new (and better) twitter client(s). So, I started googling with the terms "best twitter clients". Suprisingly, there was only one article dated 2010. There rest were dated 2009.Does that mean "there's no new twitter client?" Or, the best twitter client is still the best. Or, nobody wrote a newer article. Which one is it?So, what's the best twitter client? Or, is there a newer

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-82719851981839829382010-12-26T05:53:00.001+07:002010-12-26T05:54:53.320+07:00

This is to let you know that Vol.2/No.2 (2010) of the Internetworking Indonesia Journal (IIJ) has been published. You can see the papers at the following site: http://www.internetworkingindonesia.org/iij-current-issue.html We would like to thank you again for your papers and for your support of the IIJ. We hope the IIJ can one day become Indonesia’s national journal for the field of ICT

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-52637612840036292322010-12-25T19:11:00.002+07:002010-12-25T19:17:26.009+07:00

It amazes me to see how many people claim that they are experts in {social network, tech gadgets, ... name what you like}. Reading their blogs doesn't convince me that they do. Most of these people did not even work in the field, nevermind starting companies in that field.Me? I don't know. I am a builder (meaning I code and also start [tech] companies) but I also dreams (meaning I envision things

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-29105602530849301682010-12-25T09:23:00.002+07:002010-12-25T09:27:24.061+07:00

I think holidays are overrated. To me, holiday is just another day. Instead of working on campus or client site, I work at home (or whatever places that I want to be). That's the difference :)Maybe I am lucky to have a working environment that is like this; work, play, family, friends, hobby, etc... they blend in. I don't have to separate things. And I do love what I am doing.

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-80192110854452948412010-12-24T07:57:00.001+07:002010-12-24T07:58:45.580+07:00

This shot was taken with my brand new Nokia N8. Not bad at all.

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-13043961838418249612010-12-21T18:58:00.001+07:002010-12-21T19:02:08.547+07:00

Okay I am blown by the look and feel of Flipboard (on iPad). I was wondering if anybody would be interested in developing blogspot theme that looks like Flipboard? Please, please, pretty please ...

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It's a beautiful Sunday morning in Bandung. Clear sky with cool breeze (I think it's around 20 degree Celcius). Time to jog and take some photos around the house or nearby sites. So here it is ...There are beautiful houses in my area, which is quite hilly. You can see the sourounding mountains.And on a different neighborhood, I found these beatiful housesGood morning folks ...

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I am blown by Flipboard application on iPad. You just have to see it to believe it. Basically, it takes data from your social network streams (twitter, facebook, etc.) and layout the content in a magazine like display. You can flip between pages just like you flip a magazine.The thing is, they layout the data in an elegant fashion!Now, I am looking for Flipboard application for my Mac OS X,

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Bandung is so cold this morning. I posted this in my facebook status and then there was a question, is this winter? or is this compareable to winter? Obviously, it is not comparable. Especially, if we were to compare this to Winter in Winnipeg (place where I lived for a while).Now, do I miss winter? I don't know the answer to this question. There were times that I hate winter with passion. But,

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This week is a busy week for me. Many things to do starting from early morning (like 3 AM) till night (like 11 PM). Good thing I am in good health so I can cope with the schedule. Thank God for that.Perhaps it is the end of the year, where everything is kinda must be closed. Projects must be closed. Courses must me marked. Financial reports must be generated. And such.Next week? We'll see. I have

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Sometimes people do not understand the reason(s) that I do certain things. They are usually simple and yet, people don't get it. For example, I help people just because it is the right thing to do. Or, I give respect to a dead person because of respect (among humans).The thing is, many people do things just to impress other people. When there are people around, they look like doing things. But

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-61180357230482437602010-12-06T17:57:00.003+07:002010-12-06T18:01:56.507+07:00

For some reasons, I got the feeling that access to my other blog (rahard.wordpress.com) is slower. Maybe they're getting too many users? Or is this just my feeling? Samething with twitter. What's going on?Is the slowness happening only on my end? (that is, too many users in my area / Indonesia?)Oh well ...

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[taken a couple hours ago around the house. bandung, 5 december 2010]Good morning ...

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yesterday, I was asked to tutor a bunch of students on how to give presentation in English. Mind you, English is not our first languange. Heck, it is probably our third or fourth languange. So, it was a challenging situation - an undestatement. On top of that, my tutorial was part of a 3-day tutorial. I didn't know what was given before my sesion.The session started with a contunuation of

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A few days ago, a friend of mine sent me a text message and it became a thread like this."Do you have an iPad?""No. Why?""Ok. I'll deliver it to you.""HAH??? What do you mean?"[no answer]And yesterday I got an iPad. Just like that ... No, I am not joking. This is not a hoax. This is a true story.And now, let me play with it ...

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Creating an exam is an art. Or is it scince? I would go for art.I am trying to create questions that can measure student's understanding. The questions are "simple", in a sense that if you know it you will be able to answer it quickly (of course) but it would take forever to guess it. But, this is the kind of "know/don't know" question. Black and white. Especially if it is done through multiple

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Yesterday my uptime was 20 hours, meaning I slept only four hours (actually less). I woke up at 4AM, since we were planning to go to Jakarta by 6AM. Then I went to sleep the next day at 1 AM. Between that I drove from Bandung to Jakarta, had a meeting in the morning after arrived in Jakarta, a presentation in the afternoon until evening, a wedding invitation in the evening, and drove back to

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In terms of design theory (is there such a thing), does scale change the design methodology? Architecture? Let me give you examples. If I want to design a 100-floor hotel, can I use the architecture of a 2-floor hotel and just stack it up 50 times? If I cannot, what makes it so (design-wise)?If I want to design a 256-bit counter, can I use an 8-bit counter and replicate it 64 times? (Don't I need

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-71541635655800314282010-11-24T10:40:00.002+07:002010-11-24T10:44:57.571+07:00

I am a computer nerd. I spent countless hours in a day in front of computers. But, for some reasons I still find it hard to read long documents on screen. I don't read eBooks, but I could spend hours and hours and hours reading blogs though :)I still prefer to print the documents, take them with me, read them in any place, scribble notes on them, and when I am ready to make changes then I work on

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-40783144031611293932010-11-16T04:35:00.003+07:002010-11-16T04:39:13.721+07:00

After a week pushing myself to document ("draw") my days, it is now over. It was a tough committment. Capturing things and thinking of creative ideas were tough. But, strange thing is happening. I kinda want to do this again.Maybe I need a challenge? (As if I don't have too many to dos in my list.)I can do this on my own, but that's no fun :p

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This is the last day of 7-activity ...phew ... finally. Yay... I am able to "draw" 7 days of my life. Although the first day was more verbose, textual, than pictorial. But, that's ok, I guess. It's part of the learning process.

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-74302046756641409442010-11-12T21:48:00.001+07:002010-11-12T21:53:45.224+07:00

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Twas started at 1 AM. Yeah, I was all excited to participate with this seven that I thought I should get a head start. ha ha ha. That was a lie and you know it. But, really, I was up and I thought I capture some of the moment in that hour. Took my camera and shot some 1 o'clock artifacts.... fast forward ... morning ... it was cloudy and gloomy. I hate every bit of it. But, this is weekend. I

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I wanted to participate in SEVEN, which is started today, but I could not draw. I could try, but I know it doesn't do justice. It will hurt your eyes :) ha ha ha. I am thinking of using photos, stretching the definition of "drawing" :) I hope they don't mind.In terms of which blog (site) to publish the content, I'll use this blog. Originally, I thought of using my other blog (rahard.wordpress.com

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-35408432859231044772010-11-03T15:16:00.003+07:002010-11-03T16:49:53.026+07:00

Noodle and meat balls (mie baso) is a (very) common Indonesian food. This one has fried tofu in it. I love my mie baso plain, but most people would put soya sauce and ... chilli sauce. Hot! Yummy.

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[taken on one fine morning in bandung, br - october 2010]

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Here's the situation. I've been writing consitently(?) in my other blog (rahard.wordpress.com), neglecting this one. But, I feel that Imight post too much there. So, I am thinking of post what I could not post there in this blog. Not that the posts are not going to be good (read: junk), but too much of good thing is not good :)Brace yourself ... here we go ...

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It rains everyday in Bandung. Usually it rains afternoon for a couple hours. Sometimes it stops and starts again in the evening :( It causes flooding in certain part of Bandung. To be frankly, I don't know whether this is rainy or dry season. There's no pattern. I blame it on global warming.[taken on a "clear" morning - br, october 2010]

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[a picture of a man working in his field on one early morning]

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It is interesting to note that many organizations (or people in organizations) do not want to talk about organization problem(s) openly - but still internal in the organization. They like to hide it under the carpet and hope it will go away automagically.One of the places I work for is such an organization. Ouch.Hush hush ... we don't have problems here.Yeah, right ... :)

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-85704750683784070592010-08-26T16:49:00.004+07:002010-08-26T17:12:58.774+07:00

In the "old age", meaning music was available on records or cassettes, you could play a music backwards. It's not an easy thing to do, but doable. You play the media, physically, backwards.There are stories that you can hear certain kind of messages, weird ones, if you play certain song backwards. I don't know whether it's true or not, but certainly it is interesting.Now everything is available

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School (university) is starting. It's a brand new semester. I started the class today. Actually, I should have started yesterday buy I decided to dismiss the class yesterday (waiting for more students to register - or, to be exact, I wasn't ready. ha ha ha.).My class today is "Introduction to Information Technology." The class is an international class, with students from Malaysia. I was told

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It has been a while since I updated this page, eh. The thing is I have too many blogs to update :-) Oh well.This morning I thought it is going to rain. A few raindrops have fallen. I went outside to pick up newspaper before it is wet. But then, it's sunny. Whoa. I hope it is sunny the whole day, cause I don't like rainy days (and some people, ... Monday). Wet Monday? It can bring our mood

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-82405866785907769312010-07-17T17:45:00.002+07:002010-07-17T17:48:38.749+07:00

I have just got back from a futsal match. It was a good game, but now I've got a pounding headache. In another point in time, I was injured after the game. Now, it got me thinking.The reason I want to do sports is to make me healthy and fit. I am not looking for a headache, or God forbid, injury. But ...What do you think?

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A question just popped in my head; "why do I need new songs?" Why do I buy CDs, download songs, and so on?I've got too many songs already in my computers, in my CD and cassette collections. I don't think I will ever finish listening to all of them.

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-24248990754837415462010-05-23T13:12:00.001+07:002010-05-23T13:12:13.780+07:00

I love taking a long hot shower. When I was living in Canada, I could stand in the shower for long minutes (I was going to write hours, but I don't think I would spend hours taking shower :)). It felt so good. Now, I cannot do it.In developing countries, although water is perhaps abundance, clean water is expensive (and rare in some places). You just can't spend long minutes taking a shower.

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I am sorry that this blog has been sidetracked. It's not my intention. It's just my time management has gone awry. Too many things to do, too little time. Oh well. I hope I can write more here.This is just to say that this blog is still alive :)or at least, I want it to be alive ...

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I am in the process of cleaning my harddisk. It is getting full. One thing I notice is that my music (mp3) collection is not well organized. Well, it is sort of organized but not efficient. Here's a case.I organize song according to the artis' album. What do you do with songs that are the same but distributed in different albums? For example, the song is in the original album and also in several

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We were just finished joining earth hour event. We turned off all electricity stuff in our house for 1 hour. Computers off. Unplugged UPS. Even, we unplugger refrigerator. The only source of light was three candles.Vote earth!

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Yaaayyy. My other blog (rahard.wordpress.com) is nominated for some kind of blog awards.It's kind of deja vu. This blog was nominated as one of the best blog in Indonesia light years ago :) I know you don't believe it, but it's true. I have a scan version of the news (in the media).

budihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12075687494717992559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935468.post-53790022224322864882010-03-14T16:55:00.003+07:002010-03-14T17:24:15.844+07:00

You know, it is tough to have a bilingual blog. You have different crowds to satisfy.This blog is originally in Bahasa Indonesia, then in English, then Indonesia, then ... well, you know. I kinda indecisive about the choice of language.I know that the choice of language depends on the people reading the blog. But, when you have people with different languages, what do you do?

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I hate facebook uploading photo "feature".First of all, if I want to update a phone in a certain folder, I have to open that folder first. The thing is, to open the folder means images of the folder must be shown. Granted, the images are smaller versions but they still take time to view. I cannot select the folder without having to go through this process.After uploadin the photo, before it is

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I was interviewed recently. One of the question was, what was the latest book that you have (finished?) reading. I startled. I just could not answer that question. Oh my God. I have not finished reading any book in quite a while.In this current time frame, I just have too many things to do (mostly reading and writing) that I don't have time to read books. I love reading books. I really do, but

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Our band, BandIT, is active again. Gigs are in waiting in line. It's time for us to practice again. Lots of hard work, but we enjoy doing it.We play cover songs. What we want to play is classic and progressive rock, but sometimes we play pop songs as well. Just to make sure that the audience stay put :)[taken from February 2010 practice - Garin is missing in the picture]

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I guess I shouldn't complain that we've got rains every day. Usually, rain starts in this afternoon and it ends in the evening. Sometimes it goes until morning. Sometimes it feels too much.What can I do? This is rainy season in Bandung, Indonesia. Embrace it ... Enjoy it ...

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One of my students asked me, why I still teach on time even though I have a hectic schedule. The answer is ... when you love what you're doing, you'll make up time to do it. I love teaching. That's it. It's very simple.At one point in my life, I even taught classes without getting paid. Just because I love doing it.So, there ...

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For some reasons, I am not too excited with the development of ipad. Yeah, it must be a great product, but ... don't know.One of my main concerns is battery lifetime. How long it would last for my regular usage? For example, I am already in the 2nd cycle charging my MacBook today. The same thing with my (old, first generation?) ipod. Its battery already died! oh well ...

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I just thought that I should add books that I have recently read to shelfari.com. I have an account there but have not logged in for quite a while. Now, I am stuck and don't know what to do.It seems that I cannot add a book directly by typing the author and the title of the book. I can do a search, but the book that I was trying to add (Perahu Kertas by Dewi Lestari) was not found. So there's no

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Just what do you think our world would become?Here's a picture taken from a trash bin near my office (on campus).Oh... all those plastic. :((

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