Carpe Diem

Long time no see

2009-06-18T03:39:00.000-07:00

Today (June 18, 2009)
- work for half day at Liquid Vision office
- install gnome using macports and failed after 5 hours installation process
I ended up with Xfce... nice and fast on my mac...
- shocked of Multiply web app interface... it's new.. (I must never logged in since few months ago, hahah)

This month:
- I've been two years in Sydney
- My son is 1.5 years old
- Finished both of my researches
- Final Exam next week
- Research seminar

next month:
- back for good... bye Sydney... see you soon lovely Andra and Mom
- another long flight (I prefer bush if any)

My Dear Country

2009-04-21T18:36:00.000-07:00

My Dear Country

'Twas Halloween and the ghosts were out,
And everywhere they'd go, they shout,
And though I covered my eyes I knew,
They'd go away.

But fear's the only thing I saw,
And three days later 'twas clear to all,
That nothing is as scary as election day.

But the day after is darker,
And darker and darker it goes,
Who knows, maybe the plans will change,
Who knows, maybe he's not deranged.

The news men know what they know, but they,
Know even less than what they say,
And I don't know who I can trust,
For they come what may.

'cause we believed in our candidate,
But even more it's the one we hate,
I needed someone I could shake,
On election day.

But the day after is darker,
And deeper and deeper we go,
Who knows, maybe it's all a dream,
Who knows if I'll wake up and scream.

I love the things that you've given me,
I cherish you my dear country,
But sometimes I don't understand,
The way we play.

I love the things that you've given me,
And most of all that I am free,
To have a song that I can sing,
On election day.

Norah Jones...

-- what is happening to you my dear country. I heard many things happened to you. Many victims...
It is sad that the biggest part of you, the poorer, are still be the poorer...

Elections, which people say are part of democratization, will it really help them? Who knows....

"But the day after is darker,
And darker and darker it goes,
Who knows, maybe the plans will change,
Who knows, maybe he's not deranged."

Nak

2009-04-05T18:22:00.000-07:00

Jauh Jalan Yang Harus Kau Tempuh
Mungkin Samar Bahkan Mungkin Gelap
Tajam Kerikil Setiap Saat Menunggu
Engkau Lewat Dengan Kaki Yang Tak Bersepatu
Duduk Sini Nak Dekat Pada Bapak
Jangan Kau Ganggu Ibumu
Turunlah Lekas Dari Pangkuannya
Engkau Lelaki Kelak Sendiri

Andra, be tough person.... we proud of you

this song makes me trembling: "Nak" by Iwan Fals

In Memoriam... my beloved father

2009-03-19T13:01:00.000-07:00

It has been 40 days since he left us (Javanese calendar). He has passed away, but his spirits, thought, jokes and smile are remain in my heart.

He was a good person for his family, neighborhood, church and many more organizations. Not only because he is a teacher... but his life as a simple person always makes me believe that God give us anything that we need to solve any problem...

I do proud of him... he is the person that always supports me, gives me freedom to do what I want to do, but asks me to be a responsible person. He is the person that always faiths with family as well as religion... or even neighborhood.

It is so sad as you left us so early... but we believe that you are happy in heaven... with all brothers and sister who left us earlier... My warm regards for them...

Be happy my beloved father... be our spirit... We do love you....

Sukendar Pr (Semarang)

"...Makin mantab dan melanjutkan semangate Pak Yadi Swargi yang selalu smart tuk Gereja. Kesan mendalam ketika bareng beliau di DP Klaten. Berani dan tegas..."

Aryo Seto (Austria)

"...Dadi kelingan zaman samono... berkumis, berkacamata, kocak, tamiya......"

Fristian SJ (Rome)

"...Pribadinya yg menarik dan kocak semasa perjumpaan kita dgnnya di seminari atau di Klaten kiranya masih membekas dlm ingatan kita. Kita percaya, jejak2 kebaikannya juga tertera di atas sana..."

Weather anomaly

2009-01-02T22:46:00.000-08:00

It should be summer in southern hemisphere. But it seems that anomaly happens, as it is still 21 degrees in Sydney. The peak of the summer usually comes at January to February. New term should be introduced here… “Global Cooling”.

Image was taken at Berowra Water (Bushland area)

It's just a mobile

2009-01-01T10:24:00.000-08:00

That mobile phone… you may record all the conversation but still… you would not able to say that it was me…

I don’t know who brought it… sometimes it wasn’t me… and you can’t say that it was me. It’s just a mobile.

Let me finish my cigarettes… before it is banned… in my own room, in my own ashtray.

A night at Melbourne

2008-12-31T17:19:00.000-08:00

Down in Melbourne, near Flinders Station… Surrounded by artistic buildings with colorful lights, which warm the 22 degrees night. I sat there for a while, feeling the peaceful atmosphere, watching many peoples smiling and some of them laughing. Some youths singing accompanied by guitar in the front gate of flinders station.

I’m wondering people in the world feel the same.. peace… no more rockets strike Gaza.. no more crying caused by war… Everyone smile to each other.. no matter where you coming from, no matter what is your religion… no matter what is your skin color…

Rest In Peace

2008-11-22T09:41:00.000-08:00

My mobile rang last night... Someone told me that Mr. Willy Setiardja has passed away...

I remember him well... He is my Latin language teacher when I was in Seminari Mertoyudan High School.

He is a very smart person but very low profile.... He masters many languages such as Latin, Greek, Netherlands, Portuguese, English, etc....

I love the way he taught.... sometimes he forced us to learn the vocabulary, grammar, etc... but sometimes he told us ancient stories... the one that I love was Trojan Horse.

His house is in Jogjakarta, it's 60kms from Magelang (our school)... and he went there couple of days in a week by bus.... I met him when he was more than 60 years old... he still taught us with full of spirits.

His brother, Gunawan Setiardja, is a professor of law in Soegijapranata Catholic University.

Mr. Willy, there are hundreds of students who pray for you and thank to you..... be in peace... we love you.

Amo et facio quod volo

(I love and do whatever I choose)

Absence makes love grow fonder

2008-11-21T11:50:00.000-08:00

Well, yes.... absence makes love grow fonder.... not much to say :)

First provisional mark of this semester

2008-11-19T11:37:00.000-08:00

Glad..... that's what I feel now...

What I'm afraid about is just this subject... it's a Haskell thing which learn about inference rules, induction proof, virtual machine, exception, concurrency, etc... but all are learnt in the concept level and simulated by using Min-HS language....

The first day, there were about 20 students in the class....

The third week, it becomes about 13 students....

and after the sixth week, it just 5 I think....

Anyway... I tried to love this subject... it's very challenging...

However... it's too difficult, huh..... I just got 60% off all the assignment, 50% on the mid exam, and 70% on the final exam.....

I'm doing well on the other subjects... but I felt that I will not pass this subject....

finally the provisional mark has came.... and I got... CREDIT.... yay...... I pass this subject.....

and I got the second rank of 5 postgrad students...... so, possibly no one gets more than CREDIT for this subject... heheh.....

ClassKey: 08s2COMP9161

StudentID: 3228xxx

Name: Nugroho, Robertus Setiawan Aji

Program: 8682

Plans: COMPCS

tut: tue14a

midsession_q1: 3/6

midsession_q2: 16/19

midsession_q3: 6/22

midsession_q4: 6/6

final_q1: 19/20

final_q2: 4/20

final_q3: 14/20

final_q4: 15/20

final_q5: 20/20

final_provisional: 66 CR

rank: 2 / 5

It remains me on what I got from the last semester... I got the 10th position of 67 students... and it was CREDIT as well... If I'm not mistaken 22 of them were failed...

Well... study abroad is not as easy as we think.... but as long as we work hard... at least PASSED is easy, hehehe......

The concerto of the week

2008-11-18T01:07:00.000-08:00

Many things happened this two weeks.... just like a harmony in a violin concerto (which I haven't finished since 4 months ago)

Last week :

- Fortissimo: Finished the final exams, beers....

- Pianissimo: Well sleeping... ahhh... after many weeks of the hell....

having cam session with family all day long... watching Andra riding his baby walker.... cancel all appointments.. hiks..

This week:

- Jazzy at the first day... not much thing to do in the office..., pitching with friends and clients.

- Staccato at the second day.... huh... project deadline is two weeks left... 40hours anyway...

- jazzy again tomorrow.... Iphone tech talk...

hope till weekend, hahah... many appointments anyway...

Wondering to continue the third page of eight pages concerto :D

Transport Telematics

2008-10-22T21:58:00.000-07:00

You must be familiar with "telematics" term..... either heard it from television or newspaper.

There is a telematics expert as well in Indonesia...

but really, it's not just about determining whether an image is original or not, or analyzing video :)

Telematics is the integration of telecommunication and information system... have a look at wikipedia for more information.

So what is "Transport Telematics"? It's the implementation of telematics in transportation sector. The well known synonym for this term is "Intelligent Transport System" (ITS), or some people call it "Vehicle telematics".

The example of transport telematics are Electronic Road Pricing, Emergency and Breakdown System, Intelligent Speed Control System, etc...

We should proud, Singapore as part of Asia is the first country which implements ERP and it has been followed by many countries around the world.

My latest writing is about "Location Based Service" as the backbone of ITS. The characteristics of LBS as a Location-aware Application are aware of:

- where the user is

- when the user using the service

- what is the user using the service for

Those three questions must be addressed by a good LBS application. And hence, it could be a great support for ITS since position and time are very important for transport telematics implementation.

Transportation is indeed a very important system that needs to be well managed to support the economic growth. It becomes the basis of industry society.

Indonesia as developed country could benefit from the implementation of transport telematics. Traffic congestion, speeding, safety are some issues that can be solved by ITS implementation and dependency to human resource such as police officer could be decreased. Well, of course the mentality of the driver needs to be managed as well :)

Abstract

Transportation is an important aspect of economic growth. It becomes the basis of

industrial society. Hence, good transportation management is needed. Intelligent

Transport System (ITS) is a technology to address that issue. Transportation problem

such as traffic congestion, speeding, emergency and breakdown service, traffic

condition, and route and navigation can be solved by ITS. Location Based Service

(LBS) as the basis of transport telematics, plays important role, specially it provides

opportunity to private sector to be able to supports transportation regulator.

Keyword: Intelligent Transport System, Transport Telematics, LBS

*Image taken from: http://www.hel2.fi/liikenteenohjaus/eng/pt_telematics.asp

Mapping, the essential of Location Based Service

2008-09-18T00:36:00.000-07:00

Today, I finished my another writing about Location Based Service... Well, it is not a deep discussion about LBS itself nor the mapping technology. My concern is about how essential is mapping to a LBS application and what will be the challenges and future developments that need to be addressed by software developer. I have done many mashups projects this year (recent one is property.adandsell.com.au) and GIS websites such as mymarket.com.au (demographic website based on the trend of gardening data in Australia -- Liquid Vision rebuild project). I found that map is an important visualization for the LBS or future of the Internet (It's proven by the increase of visitors for more than 150% in the property site and 30% of selling rates). Map provides better visualization especially for navigation services rather than lengthy text based information).

Abstract

Mapping is an essential component on a LBS application. Mapping provides better

visualization of information to user rather than lengthy text based information. There

are a lot of mapping Application Programming Interfaces (API) that can be used by

LBS software developer to enhance their application. This ease-of-use API is a

breakthrough in LBS development and is proven to generate thousands of location

mashups that are very useful for user. There are a lot of challenges that needs to be

addressed by software developer related to accuracy, clarity of information, user

contributed content, dynamic content and other attributes such as richer road

attributes and richer Point of Interest.

Keyword: LBS, Mapping, Map API

My next project will also related to LBS system and the use of PDT (positioning determination technology) such as GPS, WIFI and cell based communication. Hmmmm..... I'm just afraid whether it could be finished in a semester or.... save some parts of it for the better future, hehehe....

Well... dunno.... I still enjoying the new programming language Haskell.... which is not related at all to my project. Hiks.... why I start to love this functional programming.... It's just so beauty... the syntax, concepts, and the difficulties of learning it....

My impression about Australian television

2008-09-12T00:21:00.000-07:00

Hmmm... I'm still watching SBS station now :)

just want to comment that it's so different compared to what I found in Indonesia....

I just came home from work this arvo, then slept for a while....

Then... yeah.... watching TV...

it was about the philosophy of coffee.... how the coffee change the world... in Australia, it's just like a culture to go to cafe and just enjoying latte or cappuccino.... It's showing how starbucks penetrates the world with it's standardization of drinking coffee... hem it was mcdonalization... now perhaps starbucks-ization :)

Then, the followed by The inside mind of Hittler.... (which is I'm watching now).... insightful and worth it to be watched.

How full of knowledge for audience those..... Hem...wondering if we get those kind of series rather than soap operas (sinetron) as what can be found on most of channels in Indonesia...

cheers

First Sentence Syndrome

2008-09-05T17:18:00.000-07:00

What a title....?

yeah, I don't know....

I used to write papers now... I need to supply 5000 words paper each two weeks..., I have written research proposals, reports, etc....

So, it's not my first time.... But, why the problem is always the same.... I confuse on how should I start my writing.... hiks....

Yeah, theoretically, I know how to solve that problem (as what I always suggest to my student -- when I was I teacher )... but, it's so difficult for me to push the keyboard and start writing the first sentence. The effort of doing that is perhaps half of all the efforts on finishing the paper itself...

I have the idea, I have the outline... But, not in English, not in Indonesia.. the first sentence is something that makes me like a stupid person (I do)....

So, if it is fine... then I will call it "first sentence syndrome"....

Yeah.. I need medication, please help......

cheers,

Image processing real world problem

2008-09-02T17:35:00.000-07:00

What happened this morning in Sydney was the error of computer that misinterpreted the plat number of vehicles that passed the toll / tunnel.

Image processing real world problem

2008-09-02T17:34:00.000-07:00

What happened this morning in Sydney was the error of computer that misinterpreted the plat number of vehicles that passed the toll / tunnel.

Interoperability of Positioning Determination Technology

2008-08-27T17:19:00.000-07:00

Well, it's not well written yet....

but this is my latest paper about:

Abstract

Currently there is no single position determination technology that able to provide ubiquitous location based service due to the limitations of each system. Hence, interoperability of more than one platform of technologies is needed to support the service. Interoperability can be achieved by creating layers that provide a common abstraction for the application and the systems. The study case is computer network architecture, which already implements the layering method to get interoperability of all different network devices. This common abstraction is important, especially for LBS software developer to create an application that works on all position determination platforms and to get higher quality of information. By having the common abstraction, hybrid location technology is happened.

I decided to start my final project as early as possible.... and lucky me.... I have gotten the supervisor... and she said that instead of doing project... I'll be a research assistant for her research (my project will be a part of her research) as well....

And lucky me again.... the research will be related on what really I like about.... and actually, it is what I haven't understand about..... and it's related to the position determination technology (which I learn this semester)

Thanks God..... (especially for "hidden treasure" (as what Ling said) for me)....

cheers

IPDN visited Seminari Mertoyudan

2008-08-21T01:02:00.000-07:00

I'm proud to be an alumni of Seminari Mertoyudan....

Hopefully IPDN becomes more humanist :)

Cited from http://mertoyudan.org

Posted by Martinus Hadisiswoyo SJ

Hari Jumat, 15 Agustus 2008, Seminari Mertoyudan dikunjungi oleh Tim yang berjumlah 6 orang dari IPDN (Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri), Jatinangor Sumedang. Drs. Srimoyo Tamtomo, SH,MM, Kepala Biro Umum dan Keuangan yang menjadi ketua Tim, menjelaskan alasan mereka berkunjung ke Seminari Mertoyudan.
Suatu ketika, mereka menyampaikan gagasan kepada Menteri Dalam Negeri (Mardiyanto) yang juga mantan Gubernur Jateng untuk mengadakan studi banding ke Akademi Militer Magelang dan Akademi Kepolisian Semarang.Tanggapan Bpk. Mardiyanto : "Berkunjung saja ke instansi sipil.Datang ke Seminari Mertoyudan, belajarlah dari sana". Jadilah mereka mengadakan kunjungan pendidikan ke Seminari. Kecuali berkunjung ke Seminari Mertoyudan, mereka juga mengunjungi Pondok Pesantren Al Zaitun Indramayu dan Ponpes Gontor Jatim.
Kunjungan ini dilaksanakan terkait dengan rencana mereka untuk menyusun berbagai pedoman, baik akademik maupun non-akademik dalam rangka pembenahan pelaksanakan pendidikan bagi para Praja IPDN.
Mereka datang pada pukul 09.15, diterima oleh Rm. Rektor, Direktur, Minister, Pamong Umum, didampingi 2 guru. Setelah perkenalan singkat di kamar tamu DP, mereka keliling kampus. Dimulai dari kamar tamu DP, mereka melihat dapur, refter, valet, kamar tidur MP, kelas-kelas, Gedung Musik, menuju Lab. Komputer, lalu menuju ruang rapat di Medan Utama. Kepada mereka, Rm. Direktur memberi penjelasan singkat tentang SMA Seminari, lalu disambung dengan penjelasan dari Pamong Umum tentang pembinaan siswa di Asrama.
Baik waktu keliling kampus maupun selama pertemuan, mereka nampak antusias menanyakan macam-macam hal tentang Seminari dan pembinaan yang diberikan kepada para siswa.Kepada mereka kami bekalkan buku pedoman pembinaan dan beberapa panduan untuk pembinaan siswa di Seminari. Mereka berada di Seminari hingga pupul 10.30, 15 menit melebihi rencana. Lewat kunjungan studi banding ini kiranya mereka mendapat banyak inspirasi untuk mengadakan pembenahan bagi Praja IPDN. Kepada mereka kami jelaskan, di Seminari kakak kelas/senior tidak diberi kewenangan memberi sanksi atau hukuman pada adik kelas (yunior). Mereka tentu berharap, ke depan di IPDN tidak lagi terjadi tindak kekerasan dari senior pada yunior, yang sampai membawa korban seperti masa yang lalu.

Megaware Sign up with AdandSell !!

2008-08-14T18:29:00.000-07:00

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I'm extremely worry

2008-06-16T01:20:00.000-07:00

She's the super woman... a mother, lecturer,

supervising house builder, and a great wife for her husband

Andra is in hospital now... he got fever.. but still giving his smile to his mother... what a wonderful boy.

I'm here, 8 hours away from them... it's just painful, do you know how I fell? Yes, I'm extremely worry.

I've got ticket to go back to Indonesia in a few days... but I still need to sit for several exams. My wife is the person who always give me spirit... yeah.. I'll do my best for you guys...

get well soon babe...

Satellite, what is it

2008-05-20T12:17:00.000-07:00

Most of us, at least heard it... ever used google maps to find a location, a weather forecast from yahoo.. (or in your dashboard if you use mac).... Those are examples of satellites services. In simple, satellites is something that orbiting the world. It can be used for many purposes such as telecommunication, networking, photogrammetry, radar, forecast, etc.....

This morning I just read an article, well, it's from other blog, that discussed about ten most important satellites orbiting earth now.

Where is Palapa?

Image taken from : http://io9.com/391538/the-ten-most-important-satellites-orbiting-earth-now

More discussion : http://io9.com/391538/the-ten-most-important-satellites-orbiting-earth-now

Reading Howto

2008-05-19T14:52:00.000-07:00

I've been in OZ for almost one year. I found that my English is far better than what I had before (except for speaking, my Javanese accent can't be eliminated when I speak in English :)... that's good).

Now, reading is a pleasure for me... That's a positive thing that I got since I were here. It was so surprised for me when I came here and saw people read a book in the bus, in the park, everywhere, while I loved to play my latest nokia phone.

Yeah... before, I loved to upgrade my phone to the latest one, and I saw that Indonesians tend to do the same. Not in here, only few of them have an expensive mobile phone so that they can play in a bus or campus or other places... They love to read rather than having a good and expensive mobile phone. Hmm... it's just my view... I don't know the reality, but it's good that we don't need to gain all the technology and happy with that. Sometime an expensive mobile phone is just a status that we can buy. But in here, who cares...

If you have salary, says 2million rupiahs.. and you buy 3million rupiahs mobile phone... hmm, it's just crazy.... (but that's what I did... I realize and regret now)

Back to reading....

Here, bookshop just like a heaven.. specially "basement bookshop". I pass it every time back from work. You can find the cheapest books in Sydney there... Usually, I just grab the one that below 5$ :)

You don't need to be an expert to read, just open your eyes, mind and imagination. Everything is worth to read. But sometimes, we easily get bored...

Steve Kaufmann has some great tips and how to read and how to choose on what should you read....

1. Read about things that interest you.

2. Read material that is at your level, or just a little difficult for you.

3. Learn to read in depth, stay on the same subject for a while.

4. If you have trouble reading, listen first.

5. Let your imagination get involved.

6. Don’t worry about what you don’t understand

7. Recognize that the key is to read a lot.

Well, for me, the greatest tip is number 6, Don't worry about what you don't understand :)

Happy reading.....

If you find that those tips are interesting for you, check out the full article here http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/7-pleasurable-ways-to-improve-your-reading-ability/

Open Source Investment

2008-05-18T16:05:00.000-07:00

Technology grows very fast. Living in that situation will lead your company to bankrupt since you need to invest more money buying latest software, anti virus, security software, expensive hosting, etc. So how can we face it?

Use open source!

Open Source also grows very fast recent days. You can get 3D desktop easily using latest Linux OS and run it faster that Vista on your old machine. You can have more secure website, Application, virus-free, etc using this kind of technology. As the result, you can multifold your revenue as not investing much money on software, etc.....

Who's able to do that? Is it easy to learn?

The reason it's difficult to learn is because you haven't tried it. Or, you've tried it but few years ago. Nowadays, open source is far better and more reliable solutions not only for budget-limited companies, but also others that wants better service and reliability.

IT fresh graduates sometimes do not ready for this kind of technology since they more learn proprietary technology in their study rather than open source. Universities are getting good facilities from proprietary company so their students would be "proprietary minded". This situation is slightly different compared to what I feel in here. Some of Australian universities (particularly UNSW) are using open source platform in almost of academic aspects but still provides proprietary technology as comparison or a learning-media for other kind of technology.

What about Indonesia? Where can I get fresh graduate that well equipped with open source knowledge?

Computer Science of Soegijapranata Catholic University (IKOM UNIKA) is one of faculty that using open source technology in all aspect of learning process. (I think this is the only one computer science faculty that using "fully open source technology" in Indonesia. Well, at least till last year :) ). As they learn computer science based on open source technology, they'll be easily adapt any other technology since they can have the benefit of open source which is deeper understanding of what happens in that technology.

More discussion about open source technology http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7404387.stm

SMS santet... it's real, don't you believe it? :)

2008-05-14T20:14:00.000-07:00

Voodoo via text message becomes a new phenomena in Indonesia. Some Victims die after read text message which coming from 0866... The text becoming red after a few while. Is it real? Well, I myself don't belief that :)....

But yeah, voodoo via email and sms is real... I've watched it with my own eyes... fortunately, the voodoo is only a game which is now using a voodoo-like doll as a controller.

You can curse, poke, pinch, etc on the doll and an email or sms will be sent to the victims. But don't hurt your victim too much, otherwise, the doll will take your picture and send it to the victim. It has a built in camera on it.

Curious about it? watch and read the full coverage here : http://gizmodo.com/390205/voodoobuddy-combines-ancient-curses-with-modern-technology

hehehe

Glad, it's just a game :)

Our First Anniversary

2008-05-04T00:21:00.000-07:00

Yay... our first wedding anniversary..... Thanks God for giving us love and hope.... and also, brings Andra to our live. We are so grateful....

Even we are far away... but love and hope always bring us together.

It was May 5, 2007... when we were married

The very happy event in our life

Only one month before I came to Sydney.... 11 months never met... but our love and hope is the key to make everything happened

Now, we'll face the second year, third, fourth, fifth..... and so on... till death do us part.

"Yang dipersatukan Allah, tidak dapat diceraikan manusia"

Thanks for all of the support... relatives, friends, colleges, people arround us, etc...

Hopefully we can be the salt and light for the world

Aji, Andra, Linggar

Famous computer nerds series : Alan Turing

2008-05-02T14:18:00.000-07:00

The father of computer science....

Short biography :

1912 (23 June): Birth, Paddington, London

1926-31: Sherborne School

1931-34: Undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge University

1932-35: Quantum mechanics, probability, logic

1935: Elected fellow of King's College, Cambridge

1936: The Turing machine, computability, universal machine

1936-38: Princeton University. Ph.D. Logic, algebra, number theory

1938-39: Return to Cambridge. Introduced to German Enigma cipher machine

1939-40: The Bombe, machine for Enigma decryption

1939-42: Breaking of U-boat Enigma, saving battle of the Atlantic

1943-45: Chief Anglo-American crypto consultant. Electronic work.

1945: National Physical Laboratory, London

1946: Computer and software design leading the world.

1947-48: Programming, neural nets, and artificial intelligence

1948: Manchester University

1949: First serious mathematical use of a computer

1950: The Turing Test for machine intelligence

1951: Elected FRS. Non-linear theory of biological growth

1952: Arrested as a homosexual, loss of security clearance

1953-54: Unfinished work in biology and physics

1954 (7 June): Death (suicide) by cyanide poisoning, Wilmslow, Cheshire

Even he's a homosexual (who cares?), but all his hard works has lead to modern technology which makes me possible to write this article :)

To commemorate all of his works, an Award called "Turing Award" has been annually given to whom who has big contribution to computing world. This award is more likely as a Nobel for computer people (well... we think it's equivalent).

Reading his biography, It seems that he had difficult personal life.... but it's highly recommended to read his biography... It is worth it, specially for people who likes to learn more about computer.

short biography : http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/

image taken from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

I welcome you.... winter

2008-05-02T01:18:00.000-07:00

Winter has started...

it was the coolest April since 30 years in Sydney... huhuhu.... I started to use my heater yesterday.

My second winter... but not the last... I still need to face it next year, hmmm... I really miss Klaten with country (village) surrounded by rice fields... Tawangmangu which will always be a lovely place for my family... They are not as cold as here... lovely.

I miss Semarang, which is very warm in midday (it was 40 degrees last year).... I miss Jogja... with every aspect of life there... art, friendship, gudeg, motorcycles...

And for sure, I miss my wife and our beloved son, hehe.... Don't worry honey, I'll be at your side in two months.... (but only for two weeks? oh noooo... make it three).... Pray for me... I'm still struggling on crazy subjects and assignments... But I'm enjoying those...

Life is not easy.. but life is an art to solve the problem..... Enjoy your life guys....

Be careful with using bypass proxie : Indonesian blocking many sites

2008-04-09T23:54:00.000-07:00

As the title above,

Currently, you can't access many sites (youtube, multiply, rapidshare, etc) directly in Indonesia. The solution is easy, you can use bypass proxie websites to access those sites. Just google "bypass proxie website" then you'll get a whole bunch of sites providing the service.

But, just be careful!!! They can exploit your personal data..... so be wise with your password, username, personal details, etc....

When you request a page via those bypass proxies websites, your request will be saved in their server, not only "bypassing" your request and then provide your requested page.

In a request, often you need to supply username or password, for example to login to multiply. This type of request (even it's encrypted), will always valuable for some peoples.

For what they save your request?

firstly, it's a common for a website developer to save all the log and any information that you have. This is very important to do the analysis of the website (performance, traffic, marketing, etc).

Secondly, they have all of your details.. If Im a bad guy, then I'll try to mining all the personal data... then use it to get all your valuable things.

Bypass proxies is a kind of social engineering.

So, be wise..... !!! Don't use bypass proxies to supply your personal details... particularly for net-banking, email, etc....

So what should you do? If you want to access multiply for example? Make sure that you don't have the same password (at least) with your other login details.... Then, don't forget to change your password shortly after the government unblock those websites.

written in class.... after a friend told me that he had problem with his net-bank (even I don't know whether the problem is caused by the bypass proxies or not, but after this guy login to the net-bank via bypass proxie website, next day the bank closed the access (just like if you try to login with wrong login details three times).....)

Indonesia.go.id error???

2008-04-05T02:31:00.000-07:00

Many Indonesian website have been hacked recently regarding to the new electronic information and transaction law. This week, youtube also has been blocked in Indonesia since it contains inappropriate content. Is it the right way? Uhm... what about education?

Hey... youtube is owned by Google... Google is the biggest search engine in the world... more than 70% of what people do when they want to look for something is open google.com.

I just thinking how if then google then blocked or under ranked any website from Indonesia... waw.. this can be dangerous... as many websites mainly depend on the search engine to be known by others. Is it possible? Technically yes, but I think and I hope they won't.

Just trying to see the rank of some websites with the common keyword (including combination of my name, hehe)... I found that keywords "Indonesia" brought no authoritative websites from government or tourism department, etc.... The first was a page from wikipedia, the second was FBI fact page and the third one is lonely planet page. Hem... where is www.indonesia.go.id?

This leads me to search keyword "Indonesia goverment" and here was it.... In the first page and the top of the list. Glad to see that. But wait.... When I click that link, oh... I got an error message, waw.... Is it the professional correct message? How many millions has been spent for building the website and I got this error (see screenshot)? For a cracker or other bad people, this error can lead to other valuable informations to let them enter the server.

IT team should spend more time to improve our beloved nation's website, including providing better error message and way to report if there's an error.

Improving the search engine performance also needed so keyword "Indonesia" will lead users come to the desired sites. It's not easy, but there is way to do that... and I believe, millions Rupiah must be capable doing this (it should).

I'm wondering why it's easier to find my blog using my name rather than find www.indonesia.go.id using keyword "Indonesia" (it's on the third page of google.com) .....

Come on.... Indonesia has a lot of IT experts.... If government provide media to elaborate them, surely... IT in Indonesia will grow faster and sure... cheaper.... they will be happy to be volunteers.... (Including me? Sure I will, hehe but I'm not an expert.....)

Holly Thursday

2008-03-19T15:08:00.000-07:00

Today is Holly Thursday... and I still have a class this night .....aarrrrgh....

Holly Thursday is also called Maundy Thursday. This is an event in Catholic religion which commemorated the mystery of the Holy Eucharist, the washing of the Disciples' feet by Jesus, Jesus prayed in Gethsemane before He caught and the betrayal of Christ by Judas.

A picture of the Holy Eucharist was created by Simon Ushakov which titled "The Mystical Supper". This picture was inspiring "Tempo" magazine to put Suharto's face on Jesus's face. hiks... it doesn't matter for me... and perhaps for other Catholic people. No..no.. I don't want to talk about that...

"The Last Supper" or "The Mystical Supper" also inspiring Dan Brown on writing his novel (ups I forgot the title...) which was controversial at that time.

Maundy Thursday is actually a start on "Easter Triduum" or three holy days (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter (Am I right?).... Oh so tomorrow I must do a fasting? yeah... sure, hehe....

Wondering to go to Church with Ling and Andra... It would be nice....

My first Easter as a father, as a husband, as foreigner, in Aussie, alone... uh.... life is nice.

New Macbook + Free IPOD

2008-03-19T14:47:00.000-07:00

Curious about Macbook, I bought a macbook yesterday... Studying computing and doing an IT business really give me spirit to learn new things just like this new mac. Buy new macbook and IPOD on student price (which is 100$ cheaper, but still... for me actually, still too expensive), I will get cash back for the IPOD price (I mean 4G IPOD price - I have 8G so I need to pay 50$ more).

What I did to my macbook for the first time was installing ubuntu on to it. It was easy, everything works well but wireless and sound which are easy to be solved. Then, as that was the first time I touch macbook, I logged in to mac OS and try to install everything that I need including VirtualBox (virtualization software so you can run windows or linux inside OSX). Again, that was easy and straight forward. Everything was OK and... dear, OSX was a great operating system. It's simple, easy to understand and use.... and the most important, it's a UNIX derivative, means I still able to do anything about UNIX.

I have 3G RAM from my old laptop, since those are the same specification with MAC's memory, I tried to install it and wew... it was working....... Now I have 3G memory which boosts up my MAC...

Have a plan to buy new laptop? why not trying Macbook....? It's gorgeous. Don't worry about support to windows, etc... it's well supported. Try for half an hour and you'll be wondered to have one. hiks

My next project :

- research on Demographic map (GIS) using open source software

- Build AdandSell Job site, so you can find or place jobs on that site freely

- Moving all AdandSell site to new, faster and bigger server in Australia

Hopefully this macbook can improve my performance in research and study, hihihihi.... thanks for my wife and son who always support me.. I promise to do all my best for you. I do love you guys.

Andra's smile

2008-03-12T13:26:00.000-07:00

Happy and proud... those what we feel about Andra....

Almost two months

2008-03-08T10:19:00.000-08:00

Andra is almost two months now....

More than 5kg

Who dare?

AdandSell - Video Advertising and Shopping

2008-02-13T21:32:00.000-08:00

Welcome to AdandSell Video Advertising & Shopping

Sell and buy everything here..... for free....!!! This actually was launched when my son was born at January 12, 2008. While we do the marketing, finding sponsors, etc... people start to register and they start to enjoy this way of shopping and selling. We feel glad since on the first month we've got million hits and hundreds of members.

Advertise products or any items on video based is more attractive and from many feedbacks that we've got, we can see that this method is more effective than the common shopping site that only provide images and description. Using video, sellers can creativelly advertise their products and buyers will also enjoy to see the items.

Creating video? How? You can use your mobile phone to capture the video and easily convert it to flv. You don't need to be a professional videographer. Be creative and don't forget, we also do the marketing and do the search engine optimisation, which means your items will be easly found by buyers who search related products using common search engine.

So, what are you waiting for?

Visit http://www.adandsell.com or http://www.adandsell.com.au now and enjoy your shopping!!!

Who are we?

We are an IT company (http://it.adandsell.com.au) focussing on Online Advertising. We want to provide such kind of new services to Online consumers that has never been provided by any E-Commerce Web site before.

As an E-Business Solution Company, Our mission is to positively impact our Client's Business goals by providing a strong foundation of Information systems through our e-Business solutions and Database Management Systems.

Our Consultants / Programmers have good experience in designing, building, implementing and supporting technology for e-Business solutions that automate traditional style of doing businesses. Our consultative approach gives you the ability to develop custom made solutions that matches the unique needs of each of our Clients.

Rectifying poor implemented Business solutions after deployment causes tremendous productivity loss, disruption to enterprise and financial losses. It is far more cost-effective to invest in the proper planning and detailed design. Good and effective Communication with our Clients is most important to us. Our consultants make sure they have a deep understanding of Client's needs and the flow of Information in their Business before coming up with any Recommendation. Designs, Plans, method of Implementations, Solutions and relative outcomes are discussed with Clients before start of any Project and at each and every stage of the Project.

Yustinus Baskoro Anindra Nugroho

2008-01-14T19:07:00.000-08:00

Yustinus Baskoro Anindra Nugroho (Andra)
Klaten,
January 12, 2008

Be the light and salt of the world

Welcome to the world

2008-01-11T21:27:00.000-08:00

Aji Jr has born today Jan 12, 2007.

I'm very happy now.... not a father to be anymore... but a father.
Thanks to my wife who gives him birth, loves him and takes care of him.

about the name, hem... still want to discuss more with my wife, hehe....

Only nan clanges and passed by
time stands always etternally still....

No Vacation :(

2007-12-14T17:18:00.000-08:00

Recently, I was so stressed with so many things. Mostly because of wondering the birth of my son in this early January. So sad when I realize that I can't be a companion physically to my wife while she gives a birth to our son. It was just a month before I departed to Aussie when I married...But here, I learn new things specially on how keeping up the spirit even when I were far away. I feel glad and so happy that my wife always supports me since I realize that I'm weak physicologially actually. Lord will make a way.
Last three weeks, I was imagining that I will have a great vacation this summer. relax... enjoy the holiday, Christmas at Sydney, etc..... Yeah, I still enjoy my activity, but not holiday actually :(. Now, I work as a full time programmer in a Sydney based company. And also, I develope a shopping site which will be launched soon (different company). Hem, but thanks I still have time for myself, my family, friends and God.

StuVac.... I love it

2007-12-01T00:01:00.000-08:00

the session is finish.... glad to pass all the exams (and glad with the marks as well)... It's student vacation now.... and almost three months. Unfortunately, I won't be able to go home in this StuVac.... but fortunately, I have an opportunities to work as a full time programmer in an IT company in Sydney... a fun job... hehe..... at least I don't need to be well dressed (something that hard to do for me, heheh.... my wife always complains about that).... Those Unfortunate and fortunate things are really hard choices actually... It means that I won't be able to be my wife's companion (physically) when she gives a birth to my beloved son. But, anything that I do, will always for them. It will be better for our family future. Lord will make a way........

(Wondering to cut my hair soon)

A father to be.....

2007-10-31T00:12:00.000-07:00

Last night, I was laying down in my room and I saw the sky which was so beautiful. I did not know what was it means, but I really enjoyed it. My apartment is an old apartment (very old perhaps) but it's really cozy. Large room with sun room, television, and of course cheap (perhaps the cheapest room in Sydney?). But I do love to live in here with my beloved friends who make me happy when I'm homesick, he2....
Ups... back to last night... My old Nokia phone rang, there was a text message. Slowly I opened it and yay... my wife said that Aji jr is a boy......... Suddenly, I woke up and pray, thanks God for your kindness, for all your gift to me, my wife, my family, my friends, and my baby..... This weekend, our baby is seven month old... two month to go, we will have a cultural ceremony at my home in Klaten. Hopefully, our baby will bring joy to the world.... Hem... any suggestion for name? but please do not use your name, he2....

What I've done so far

2007-10-29T21:25:00.000-07:00

It has been almost 6 month since I came in Sydney.... many things I have done here, travelling, studying, sleeping, he2... I do need to evaluate my life here... yes, a reflection. I've just remembered when I was in high school, I must write a reflection every day, hiks... that's why my homepage called "carpe diem"... seize the day. I enjoy living in Sydney, but Indonesia is the best for me, he2.... It's a kind of milestone for me to do more and more for other people, especially my students and my environment.
When I was teaching my students, I always encourage them to do more and more, hard work, but don't forget to enjoy your life. Hard work is a must, yes it is... but enjoy your life, pursuing happiness is more important than anything. A balance life will lead you to have a happiness and makes your life more exciting.
As a student, now I am trying to work hard all the time, but I always keep relax and enjoy what I've done..... So never ask me am I busy?, he2.... because I have no time to be busy. What is caused that? A good time management will be the most important aspect of your life. Have I worked hard? sure... In the past 6 month, I've done many things, and I have so many great experience, including passing Google internship programming test, Google phone interview, etc... even I must wait for any project from Google that suitable with my background.

So, here what I've done in the past 5-6 month...

- Google internship interview (I really enjoyed this step since I have a one hour interview with google maps developer and having experience to code in an online mode using google docs)
- Almost DB Nerd certification (yeah, I finally got it..... even I only in the 4th position, but I must work hard during this session to get the top ten)

- Google internship programming test (duh, this is the hardest thing that I've done so far... I must analyze many algorithms (AI, learning machine, etc), write the code, and find the optimal way of a 15 slidding puzzle only in 1 week, but I'm glad I've passed it)
- Database System course (my favourite subject, PL/SQL, Oracle, etc)
- Principal of Programming course (my favourite as well, really this one is not as easy as you think... but I enjoy it)
- Microprocessor and Interfacing course (my favourite lab, he2... using AVR lab board and doing something in low level machine, really interesting)
- Microwave Remote Sensing course (Wow.. my first impression in learning RADAR and satellite technology. Hopefully, in the future, I'll have a research in this field)
- Travelling arround Sydney (This is my favourite activities)
- Learning to cook (Oh, perhaps this is the hardest thing, he2)
- Another unfinished research, he2.. many ideas but lazy to implement.... but no worries I'll finish it in this summer vacation, he2....
- Other things that I can't tell you, he2...

Now, I'm facing the final exam and before that, I must submit some assignments... I do not want to delay all the work, so I've done almost all. Now, I will relax and enjoy some weeks before the final exam in my personal laboratory, he2....
So, never delay your work mates, he2....

Indonesian student barbeque in Cogee Sydney

2007-10-26T22:05:00.000-07:00

Today, we have a great brabeque which held in Cogee, Sydney. More than 30 students and their family came and joined this ocassion. We were so happy to meet each other and at least we knew each other.
Beef, lamb and chicken are those kind of animal that joined in this barbeque party. Those meat marinated for a night using many kinds of spices made by a Master of Food Science candidate (so it must be delicious, he2...). Just go to http://aehm.multiply.com to view some pictures of this ocassion.

The Power of Google

2007-10-25T19:20:00.000-07:00

This week google changed its mathematics formula in the search engine. Many web sites influenced by this acting.
Almost 80% of internet user find a desired web site using search engine, and the most popular is google. So, if google change the way how they rank the crawled web sites, it will have a big impact on how many peoples fine the web sites. So, it's always good to make sure that your web site is listed in the top ten or at least in the first page of any search engine (google mostly) when the keywords related to your website requested by user.
There are so many ways to improve your web site so it will have a good pagerank in a search engine. If you want to learn more about this, you can find what algorithm is used by the search engine and find the best keywords that can represent your web site. Some search engines have gave some clues how to get a good pagerank. For example, in google you can visit http://www.google.com.au/webmasters/ and find any information on how you should build or improve your website. Is it important? yes, sure.....

Have I implemented it in my website? yes.... sure... and how is it going?
for specific keywords I got a good rank, for example my full name, specific writing, etc... but for the common word, mine is perhaps in page 1000 or more, he2.... how to improve that, hem, you should use google adwords or adsense service, he2.....
or your domain should has known well :)

read this for further information on the power of google
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/google-algorithm-tweak-spooks-www/2007/10/26/1192941308334.html

My blog in German language

2007-10-24T16:54:00.000-07:00

For you who are interested to see my blog in German language, just click link below

http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=en%7Cde&u=http://a-ehm.blogspot.com/

this is a google translation for my blog. You can try to your website, Lets google translates your website. Wow, I really admire what google can do for internet user.....

For Gmail user, now you'll be able to use IMAP for your Gmail instead of POP method. By using IMAP, you can use your favourite email application and what you will do in your client aplication will automatically synchronized with your web based gmail.

Setup is easy, just go to your GMAIL setting and enable the IMAP method (for you who hasn't the setting yet, just wait don't worry, for a couple days you'll get it).
In your application, you need to point the IMAP server to imap.google.com.
You can do it in your email application, mobile phone, etc..... ask google for more and detail instruction.

ayam goreng trancam

2007-10-01T20:36:00.000-07:00

Hi kawan2.. ada yang tahu resep bikin ayam goreng trancam... wah nafsu tak tertahankan nih, kuangen banget... susah tidur nih pasti klo lagi pengin gitu.
Makanan ini khas Jawa Tengah lho, hayo negara lain dijamin ga punya deh klo ga salah, he2....

serius ki, siapa yang tahu, he2.. tolong dong. atau temen2 di sydney ada yang bisa masakin, he2....

Find the differences

2007-09-18T18:34:00.000-07:00

Find the differences from pictures above (Einstein and his brother, he2....)!

Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. A great physician, but loves classical music and plays violin as well. He2... perhaps he was just like me: put the bow above the violin string and plays "meditation from thais" when stuck to something. Perhaps he played the violin just before he found the relativity theory... (ha2... perhaps I will found something after mastering the Toccata and Fugue by Bach)

For some people, listening to a music or playing a music instrument will be a great way to relax yourself and enter the beta situation which leads you to work optimally. There are a lot of music genres, you should find the most suitable one. But, for some people, it will be different from time to time. For example, In the morning I do like to listen to Baroque classical music which gives me spirit and wakes me up. I love to enjoy it while I'm having my breakfast and cup of tea.. (not wine he2..). In the afternoon, I do like to listen to soft blues music, which leads me to have a twenty minutes sleep, he2...
Dream Theatre, Queen or other rock groups will accompany me every evening with their skilfully music, Inspire me to learn anything that I want to learn. Then in the night, pop music with love theme will always sounding in my atmosphere, he2... Usually I get new idea in this period of time (10-12pm), then followed by chatting with my wife or friend till drop, ha2....

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The picture of Einstein is taken from http://www.larouchepub.com/spanish/lhl_articles/2006/0714_ataque_india.htm

Weird dream

2007-09-16T19:25:00.000-07:00

Two days ago, I got stuck on my assignment. I couldn't solve two last questions from fourteen questions provided. Actually it was OK if I just left it since it'll give me less than 20% of overall assignment mark. I got the other 12 totally correct, I do believe it. So I just left it and having a great weekend, some beers and (unfortunately) a cigarette (believe me, it was just social smoking.. I'm not a smoker now,he2...).

Sunday night I still had a chat with my beloved Ling till 2pm (thanks for a communication company which provided her with free of charge GPRS connection, hi2... ssst). Then, I felt a sleep and I started to dream about anything, hi2.... last time, I dream about my project, bwahaha in my dream, I tried hard to solve my project (It's a usual dream if you get stressed with something), but I enjoyed it.. I didn't get stressed because of anything, I tried to enjoy my life here, no time to be busy..... Finally, I just said 'horray' because I can solve my problems. I wake up and directly go to my laptop, connect to campus's server and write what I've done in my dream and compile it.... ha2.... it works, totally correct. Great and weird dream. I wonder I could have this kind of dream for my projects, ha2....

So, here, what're the recipes?
1. Keep relax when you do something, don't let it burdening you
2. Keep focus to all what you want to do (sometimes if we can't solve a problem, it's because we aren't focus to the problem)
3. Reward yourself if you can do something... Just make a time management for a week and if you can reach the target, you should reward yourself... Anything.. (last week I reward myself because I can finish all the projects before my own due by buying an electrical violin (ha2... don't do this, will lead you to bankrupt if you do this all the time....), I plan to go to the beach if I finish this assignment... and it's my time to do it, he2....
4. Make your own due date (should have enough spare time to check it twice or more before submit)
5. Spell my name three times if you have problems, hi2.....

-- My messy heaven taken this morning

Letter from my friend

2007-08-31T17:16:00.000-07:00

Ji (Sorry mate, I change it since it will be read by many people, he2...) , it's really nice to hear from you.
your stories and your experiences make me start to dream again....and again...
i really want to go abroad...learning many things there...visiting beautiful places...
then going home with abundant knowledge to share...hmmm. ...sounds nice...
what you have done is an inspiration for me...
making me never stop dreaming...and wake me up to face the life....
good luck mate....
no worries...

life will lead you to places that you've never known...
but love will lead you home....

if you have any information about any scholarship. ....please let us know....
best of luck for you....
take your time....

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Many thanks mate, I'm trembling to read your letter, he2... I know that you can... If you have any problem, just let me know... Sorry to post your letter here, but I will keep it anonymous, no worries... Let your spirit be a spirit to others. This is my third months I have been here, and I really want to go home (homesick fever) he2.... So many challenge here, specially when I really miss my wife, family, friend, environment, pollution (bwahaha).... Before, I never dreamt to study to Australia, he2... Germany was the best for me, so I learnt "Mine name ist Aji, Ich komme aus Klaten, Ich wohnen in Semarang, ..." he2... Now I realize that Australia is closer to Indonesia and I'm suffering from homesick fever (but it's still 1100$ for the return ticket, he2), How if I live in Germany, ha2.... However, I found many interesting things here, many friends, interesting culture, beautiful landscape, interesting objects, great study methods, many things that you can adopt for a better life, he2....
I learn that faithful friendship, travelling, rapid communication with your family will help you to face this problem, he2... How long will I stand.. I don't know ha2...

I always remember my community (Pak Mul, ex Seminarist community) words "Amo et Facio Quod Volo" which means I love and do what I have chosen

So, stop your dream now, realize it, he2... do your best. About scholarship, ADS program will be closed at September 7, 2007. Just go to http://www.adsjakarta.or.id for more information. I'll help you if you have any problem.

Cheers,

Global Warming Confusion

2007-08-30T16:48:00.000-07:00

Watching movies "An Inconvenient Truth" and "The Great Global Warming Swindle" respectively perhaps will change your mind what does lead the global warming.

"An Inconvenient Truth"
This film which is very popular, is a documentary of former Vice President of USA Al Gore's presentation about global warming. Here, Al Gore describes clearly that human leads the global warming by producing Carbon dioxide. He presents supported data which explain the relation of CO2 production and the warm weather. CO2 production drives the weather becomes warmer. This situation which is called Global Warming has so many negative effects. The ice in the pole is melting and this condition leads the rising of sea water. CO2 mass production really dangerous for world's future and Global Warming is a big threat caused by human activities.

The Great Global Warming Swindle"
This is a documentary film made by British television. This film is controversial because contains so many contra argument about global warming. Here, Scientists, Economists, Journalists, disagree with Al Gore description about Global Warming. They argue that human do not lead the global warming. They think that Global Warming issue is just used by some big country to stop the third world to develop their country in industrial aspect (which is a threat for global warming).
They give an example of an African country which has no electricity and gas, but other big country suggest to use solar panel which is very expensive and unaffordable by people in that country. Why, because if they use modern electricity which produces CO2 in the process, this will support the global warming.
In this film, scientists also disagree the statement that human leads the global warming by producing CO2. Their contra argument based on their research which has the different result about what leads the global warming. First, CO2 produce by human is not as many as sea, volcano or other production. Secondly, The production of CO2 does not lead the warm weather but the warm weather caused the increasing of CO2 production. The sun activities is more appropriate reason about who drives the global warming, and the climate change will happen based on the sun activity.

Both of this film is a great way to exercise our critical thinking ability, he2.... Both of the films provide data and argument that really easy to understand and make us agree what they are talking about. So, what do you think? he2....

I personally think that human is responsible of this climate change. Why? Hem, not based on the data or any academic argument, but just because if I live in a city which has so many vehicles or industrial activities, I feel that the air quality is bad compared to other city which has small amount of industrial activities or vehicles.

So, let's make our world green, plant as many as trees, walk or ride bicycle to go to your office and decrease your electricity usage.

Here the link of the video (unfortunately there is no link to the "An Inconvenient Truth" video, if you have, let me know)
- The Great Global Warming Swindle

New Book

2007-08-28T18:32:00.000-07:00

G'day

Hereby I would like to launch my new book published by Andi Publisher (but not listed yet).

The title is "Server Linux Client Windows".
Here, I and Suyanto EA supervised my two beloved students (Edward Christophorus Moa and Feby Lotan) in doing their experiment about communication between Linux and Windows operating system. This book discuss the combination of the power of Linux server and the easy to use Windows OS. Linux is a reliable and open source operating system, so it would be great if we use it as a server. Here, we share about how to share the data, printer, etc between server and client in a simple way.
This session, Feby Lotan finished his study and he got a high GPA which is second to none in Computer Science Faculty.

Moon Eclipse

2007-08-28T16:52:00.000-07:00

Last night we had a beautiful moon eclipse. I took some pictures of it using my "not" SLR camera... Fuji Finepix s6500 fd. I uploaded those to http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-ehm/, so enjoy it. These are some of the pictures.

Ups the moon slipped.... no, it's because I didn't use tripod, he2....

Today's snapshoot

2007-08-25T04:50:00.000-07:00

Should it be "n" turn, not "u" turn?

Offenders will be prostituted, oh sorry, perhaps prohibited, no it must be prosecuted....

Lovely forest for modern people

God's office? No, it's still in the earth..

Jesus love you too, mate..

check other photos here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-ehm/

Hiduplah Indonesia Raya

2007-08-16T21:05:00.000-07:00

Happy Independence Day to my beloved Indonesia

Today is the the 62th of Indonesian independence day. We are invited by the Consulate General of Indonesia in Sydney to have a flag ceremony and gathering at Wisma Indonesia Rose Bay. Hem... great experience to have a flag ceremony here. The most important is we can meet many Indonesian there (Even, Sydney is full of Indonesian, he2...).These are some pictures of this occasion.

UNSW students and the Consulate General (3th from left... no it's me, the General is 4th)

Acehnese Dance

"Poco-poco"

Fanfare

Merdekah....

ADS Scholarship

2007-08-14T16:51:00.000-07:00

G'day mates,

Some people asked me how to get the scholarships from AUSAID. I'm an APS holder, but this program is the last period, no more APS program this year. But, no worries... you can try to apply ADS program which is the default program runs each year. You can get the information by visiting http://www.adsjakarta.or.id

Tips

1. Improve your English. Although the requirement is only 500 for TOEFL score or 5.0 for IELTS, it will be worth if you can reach the score as high as you can and improve the ability to speak, listen, read and writing in English.
My tips:
- Watch movies as much as you can... (English language and try without subtitle). This will help you to improve your comprehensive listening. Do it with fun.
- Find a sparing partner for speaking exercise. Expressing an idea in a speaking is not as simple as you think, he2... (In my case, I have my wife who is ADS alumni)
- Read any English books. As many as possible. Trust me, if you like this, you'll feel easy when you do the reading test
- Write as many as possible. (I did it by wrote something in this blog.... You know, even my writing is full of mistakes, I always celebrate my mistake (Michael's words)
- Think in English, start to think, speak to yourself in English. Learning English language is not as simple as translating your language to English. It's different. Hopefully you get dream in English
- Celebrate your mistake (again Michael's words)

2. Answer the questions in application form properly
There are a lot of applicants (perhaps more than 7000 and they will choose only 600 for the next tests), so answering the application form properly is the main gate to the scholarship

tips
- Choose a program that suitable for you but stay close with your educational background. You must think also what will you do after you finish your program... Surely supporting Indonesia's development is important.
- State your aim to get the scholarship clearly and shortly.
- Include any supporting documents, project you've done or you're doing, references, etc. Supply all documents you have. Nothing to lose
- Supply your best photographs (he2.. in my case, no worries)
- Make a good personal statement which describes yourself clearly in a page
- make correspondences with any lecturer from an University in Aussie if it is possible (or the school) - They are welcome to answer any question, specially about research. if it's possible, arrange an outline proposal about research in one page.
- Answering the application form question in English will be worth for you

3. Pray for your best

Hem, This is the first step that you must do if you wanna come to Australia in Ausaid account, he2... Remember, this scholarship is not only for lecturer, ... if you are a teacher, employer, or even a fresh graduate, you have the same opportunity. Try it, nothing to lose

I'll update this thread after I finish my assignment, he2..

Cheers

Long time no see

2007-08-13T17:28:00.001-07:00

Hi mates, long time no see. Sorry, I was struggling with so many activities (including travelling, he2...) Hem, Few days ago, my wife sent me a picture of my baby in her womb. So,let me introduce my kid (I don't know what's the gender and let me don't know till he/she born). He/she (people usually address an infant with "it" but I don't want... he/she is not something, but someone) still 3 months and hopefully will born at January next year. Unfortunately, I can't accompany my wife when she will give a birth to my kid. I can't take the reunion airfare (A facilities for Ausaid student to go home if he/she don't bring her/his family). I must wait for 12 months to get it. It is not worth if I fund the trip by myself, he2... It's better for me to work here at summer and save the money for my baby (and my wife surely... don't be angry babe, he2...)
I have so many plan including having some researches with some colleges. I will tell you later about this.

2007-07-24T06:46:00.000-07:00

Courses have started

Session two has started. Now, I'm fully a student. My first course is Human Computer Interaction. HCI is a course that learning about how should we design something for end user. He2.. this is something that I like, because this course has a strong relation with psychology and arts, not only computer science.
I spent my weekend in Canberra and Snowy Mountain. I realized that I'll be busy with my courses after the session start, so I decided to spend my time travelling to other state and finding new experiences.
Together with Ppia Canberra, I went to Snowy Mountain (3hours from Canberra). Something weird was Sydney much colder than snowy mountain, hem...
The weather was very good, sunny and the snow was very tick. I played toboggan and learnt to play sky. He2... it was very interesting.
I slept at Dian's apartment in Australian National University (ANU) Unilodge together with Jati and Ichsan. I found that Canberra is a quiet city. I went to Questacon (Museum of Science and Technology) and it was really interesting. I tried the zero gravity simulation (free fall) and I swear I'll not try it again, hem... Visiting museum in Australia is a great way to relax and learn something new. It is a popular activities here. Hopefully students in Indonesia love the same.

2007-07-19T03:10:00.000-07:00

Don’t Sleep Away The Night

Daniel Sahuleka
(my favourite song, I always listen to it when I drive my car with my wife)

Tomorrow’s near, never I felt this way
Tomorrow, how empty it’ll be that day
It tastes a bitter, obvious to tears to dried
To know that you’re my only light
I love you, oh I need you
Oh, yes I do

Don’t sleep away this night my baby
Please stay with me at least ’till dawn
It hurts to know another hour has gone by
And every minute is worthwhile
Oh, I love you

How many lonely days are there waiting for me
How many seasons will flow over me
’till the motions make my tears run dry
at the moments I should cry
for I love you, oh I need you
Oh, yes I do

Don’t sleep away this night my baby
Please stay with me at least ’till dawn
It hurts to know another hour has gone by
And every minute is worthwhile
It makes me so afraid

Don’t sleep away this night my baby
Please stay with me at least ’till dawn
It hurts to know another hour has gone by
The reason is still I love you

Ling with "si Hitam"

2007-07-18T05:52:00.000-07:00

APP oh APP

Academic Preparation Program at UNSW has ended. Many new things I got from these activities. Thanks to Brownie (Sorry, I always forget how to spell your name), Maria, Pam, Ian, etc.... who have supervised us in this APP. Although I've got an English for Academic Purpose Program in Indonesia, still I got another new things... That's why life is so interesting if we can get new things in our activities.
Finally... we closed this program with a barbecue party.... he2... Every student brought their own special food.... Me and Richie bring tempe which was the most favourite food there.....

Yesterday, we have a Harbour Cruise activity. Wow.... Thanks to UNSW, thanks to ISS, thanks to Anna Rees who led us in this activity.... It was so cold but we were happy... Although it was only 1.5 hour cruise... It was still so wonderful... An unforgettable moment.

Wista (Phd student), Anna (ISS UNSW Senior Advisor), Me

Other pictures... visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/adsstudents/

2007-07-15T19:56:00.000-07:00

Kuringgai, The Great Walker

Saturday, July 14, 2007... I woke up early and caught the bus to Central Station. There, I met Dian, Ichsan and Jati. We bought 4 train tickets to Mount Kuringgai.
Mount Kuringgai is located 60km north of Sydney. It has a great view and it is one of a national park in NSW.

The great North Walk sign.... jati and me (right)

We decided to take the Great North Walk route from Mt. Kuringgai Station to Berowa Station. It was 10km (5 hours walk)
I can say that it was a fantastic journey. We walked along the river and finally found a lake (unfortunately we didn't go to the lake because it was 5pm and we must catch the train)

The Leader... A-ehm

Dian and Ichsan..

I do believe Indonesia's bush walking or national park is better than here. The different is that in here, everything is well maintained: safety, clean, etc... If our park is maintained well... I think I'll not spend my weekend to go to the mall, he2.....

2007-07-08T04:37:00.000-07:00

Borobudur isn't part of the world's 7 wonder anymore

Information from http://www.new7wonder.com shocks me. Borobudur temple, which is located in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia is not anymore stated as one of world's 7 wonder. Even, this temple isn't nominated at all.
I try to find the information whether this web site is an authorised web site from an authorised organisation or not. But, I think the problem is not about this information comes from an authorised organisation or not. There must be something wrong in our tourism industry.
From computer science world.. I guess Indonesian government must has better web site to improve tourism promotion. There are a lot of ways to do it. Not only create the web site and then update it regularly, Indonesian web site must also has a relationship with other site, specially search engine such as google, yahoo, altavista, etc.... make sure that the web site will be the first on the list. Improving the website to be more interactive also could be a good way to attract people around the globe to visit it.. and make sure... there is a Borobudur's picture in the index page.

Except, Indonesia wants to lose it..... losing one of our proudly status....
Above all, I love Indonesia....

2007-06-30T23:39:00.000-07:00

First Time to Get Loss

Preparation course in UNSW not make me feel busy. I prefer to use my spare time and get loss around Sydney and enjoy this city. As I told you, this is an easy city... I mean, just buy the travel weekly ticket and you can go anywhere in Sydney by bus. Hem...

Okay, these are some of interesting things that I got from a few days ago.

me and a famous family... but I'm not part of them, he2...

UNSW library building captured from Randwick

Bicycle and pedestrian road....

If you come from European country or US, this sign will really help you

Vandalism not only happen in my country

In Indonesia, it's called "kereta kelinci"

memorial for bali bombing victims... Cogee beach

Cogee beach...

2007-06-17T03:16:00.000-07:00

Sydney first week

I came to Sydney three days ago, picked up by senior UNSW student. It was a long flight from Jakarta to Sydney (6.5 hours).
14 celcius...... on the average.... sometimes 5 degree, hem... it's winter here. I live in Doncaster Avenue, 15 minutes walk to University of New South Wales.

Today, I spend my time to have a site seeing in Sydney CBD, Darling Harbour, Harbour Bridge, Sydney Opera House, and enjoy the easy life in Sydney by using bus and train....

Here are some of my pictures.

2007-06-16T17:42:00.000-07:00

My wedding

May 5, 2007 became an important day for me... I was married.....

Robertus Setiawan Aji Nugroho., ST & Bernadia Linggar Yekti Nugraheni., SE., MCOM., Akt

I played violin and my wife sang "The Prayer", together with "D'Angelis Chamber Orchestra"

2007-06-16T17:40:00.000-07:00

Sorry for being lazy

It has been more than one month since the last time I wrote something here.... To many activities and lack of internet connection just made me easily forgot this blog.....

2007-03-11T03:02:00.000-07:00

"In Finem Omnia" Football Club

From left to right
Up : Setyo "plenthi" Hari (keeper), Prima "kocan" Damar (defence), Setiawan Aji (me, striker), Danang "jinguk" Pamungkas (defence), Joko "Jiwo" (playmaker), Andreas "Kristin" Ari (striker)

Down : Andon "Kothak" (right wing), Hari "Kace" Sigit (Left Wing), Dimas "Celeng" Ariyanto (defence), Budi "Cakil" Gunawan (playmaker)

Yesterday I surfed the Internet. I want to write a blog, but there were no ideas at all. I looked for a picture and found an old picture of me and my football team. Since high school, I joint the Seminari Mertoyudan football club. Every year we have an league and in 1999, my team won as the first. Unfortunally, I already stopped to play football. To many other bussines in my life. Sometimes I really miss to wear a footbal shoes, team's shirt, kick the ball, play as striker and make a goal. He2....

2007-03-04T19:51:00.000-08:00

IT-ers reunion

Saturday, March 02, 2007, there was a reunion of alumni of Informatics Engineering of Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University. Five alumni joined this occasion. They were (from right to left) :

1.Sinung (TF'99), now works in Sclumberger Oil Company as a Drilling project manager
2.Bimo (TF'00), owner of PT. Mahkota Dewa Indonesia
3.Aji (TF'00), Computer Science lecturer of Soegijapranata Catholic University, owner of Nugroho IT Solutions and Australian Partnership Scholarship awarder
4.Deddy (TF'00), works in Berca as a storage system IT specialist
5.Johan (TF'00), Master of Informatics Engineering student at Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University

Hopefully they can bring this country to the better one.

2007-03-04T19:40:00.000-08:00

Lord make me an instrument

Lord make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

St. Francis of Assisi, 13th century

2007-02-25T22:09:00.000-08:00

Terrible day, I broke my glass

I didn't know what happen, suddenly the glass losed from it's frame. Hem, now I must buy the new one. It hurt my eyes.

2007-02-22T23:16:00.000-08:00

Maximize your Laptop

Have a brand new or old laptop? How to deal with it?

Nowadays, people prefer to have a laptop rather than a personal computer. It is because the mobility aspect of a laptop. We can bring and use our laptop wherever we want to go. Two or three years ago, laptop is an expensive device, but now we can buy a laptop for only 7-8 million rupiah. That is why laptop so popular in our community now. Some people often ask how to choose the best laptop for them. I will try to describe some laptop classification based on the purposes, prices and specifications.

1.Future purpose
As an accountant has different job compared to an architect or programmer. Your profession can be a good way to choose your brand new laptop. An architect maybe need a high specification laptop to deal with image processing or designing something. An accountant or social worker will use office application in his/her daily activities and need a middle laptop specification only.

2.Budget
First thing you must consider when planning to buy a laptop is your budget. Price still play important role in our community. Laptop prices vary between 6 to 20 million rupiah depend on it's brand and specification.

3.Specification
There are so many laptop specifications, based on it's processor, memory, hard disk, graphic card, sound card, optical devices, port, etc. We can find many different types of processors whether in 32 bit or 64 bit such as Intel Celeron, Intel Centrino, Centrino Duo, AMD, VIA, etc.
Celeron is the lowest type of Intel processor. It's enough for you if you just want to use your laptop for office application or watching DVD. Centrino or Centrino Duo is faster than celeron. You can choose this type of processor if you want to do image processing or playing 3D games. AMD is the competitor of Intel and it has a lot of variants same as Intel but has cheaper price. You can find review of each processor by googling it.

How to maximize your brand new laptop?

1.Software
There are a lot variant of Operating System such as Linux, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Solaris, etc. Linux is an open source operating system. It means that you can directly use it legally without buy it first. Proprietary software like Windows is another choice, but you must buy it first. For people who don't need a specific software, you can consider open source software as your solution. No need to worries about the support because open source software means deployed by a lot of programmer that will help you if you have a problem using it. The other advantage is almost free of viruses. Two years using Linux, I never have a problem with a virus.

2.Memory
Have more memory means have more performance. Random Access Memory used to store temporary files needed by operating system to do your job. Upgrade your RAM and you will get performance improvement.

3.Battery
Battery life depends on many aspect. Recent laptop have longer battery life because it support by new technology such as speed step on Intel and using a lithium cell. Battery maintenance also have effects to your laptop. First time you use your battery, charge it until 8 hours to get maximal performance. You can find information about battery maintenance in Internet by googling it.

2007-02-22T00:55:00.000-08:00

Let's move from plastic to paper bag

Two weeks ago, I had a discussion with some peoples about sustainable development. It was a very interesting topic. Unfortunatelly, I didn't have sufficient knowledge about sustainable development. One speaker talked about sustainable development in terms of politic, the other one had his own angle of view from economic field. My turn, I spoke about the use of paper bag to change plastic in our daily life activities. It was only a small angle of view, but this brought us the a deep discussion about environmental sustainability.

If we buy some groceries or any other things, the stores usually give us a plastic bag to bring the things we already bought. Sometimes we don't realize that this kind of plastic could not be recycled. Just imagine how many plastic bag used every day. It will increase the non-recycled garbages that have a lot of negative effects to our environment such as issues of global warming, environment destructions, etc.

Many countries in the world didn't use plastic bag anymore. They already used paper bag to change the plastic bag. They choose paper bag because it can be recycled. They aware about the future environment.

Today's International Herald Tribune newspaper gives us a lot of example of the efforts of many countries to recycle the trash. You can read it at http://www.iht.com/indexes/special/trash/index.php. This one is highly recommended to be read.

Indonesia has a lot of problem with trash. Plastic bag still used in a lot of sectors. why don't we try to change the easiest one. Start from supermarket, restaurant, etc?

Finally, it was just a discussion.

2007-02-13T23:07:00.000-08:00

A session about Critical Thinking With Tim Moore

Today we (3Mont-ers) have an opportunity to meet Tim Moore, a representative of some Australian Universities. Tim Moore presented a topic about critical thinking from some different point of views. He interviewed some lecturer in Monash University from three different backgrounds. They gave a definition and comment about critical thinking from their perspective.
I try to understand the aim of critical thinking in each of background. I found the same purpose even it says in different ways. The main purpose of critical thinking is to understand whether something is a rubbish or values for us. Critical thinking is a way to identified something so we can say it needed or not.

There's no exact definition about critical thinking. A lecturer from Monash said "It's an interesting word, isn't it? it can be mean anything".

Again :

"The main purpose of critical thinking is to understand whether something is a rubbish or values for us"

Do a lot of reading!!!!

2007-02-11T23:34:00.000-08:00

Christopher Abimanyu and B Linggar Yekti Nugraheni Performance in a Charity Concert

“I pray you'll be all right
and watch us where we go...”

A day before having a conference in Bali and Padang, My fiance Linggar performed a duet with Christopher Abimanyu, an Indonesian famous tenorist. “The prayer” song beautifully performed by them in a charity concert held by “Gratia”, Soegijapranata Catholic University Student Choir.

hey Ling, I'm proud of you....

2007-02-09T20:26:00.000-08:00

Timebased Internet Connection using CDMA mobile phone

Everday I connect to Internet using my cdma mobile phone and laptop. Unfortunatelly, I must pay to much for the internet cost. If I use mobile-8, I must pay 5Rp for each Kb.
Finally, I got an information about timebased internet connection using CBN. Timebased internet connection is much cheaper for me compared to volumebased internet connection. I do a lot of download and email everyday as a consquences of my project and timebased internet connection gives me a lot of advantages, not only for the cost, but also on the connection speed.

It's an easy steps for you to have an timebased internet connection.
Requirenments:
- Laptop/Desktop
- Windows or Linux Operating System (I never try to other OS)
- CDMA phone or CDMA modem (more expensive)
- Cable data
- Mobile-8 or StarOne (prepaid or postpaid)
- CBN prepaid (actually there are a lot of company that provide timebased internet connectio, e.g : ipnet, jalamedia, etc)

Comparation :

Timebased
Price Rp. 220,- every minute

Pro - better used for a ot of download activities
- 2.5Kbps on average (depends on some aspect)
- on demand connection

Cons - You must refill your account separatelly from your mobile credits

Volumebased
Price Rp. 5,- every Kb

Pro - better used for chatting
- 4-5Kbps on average (depends on some aspect)
- long connection (that sometimes you not used it)

Cons - Another application use the connection, e.g windows update, etc (costly)

2007-02-07T18:17:00.000-08:00

Email from Linggar..

Today I get an email from my fiance, it's better if I share it to you....

dear my Aji

life have sharpen our mind, thought and sense.... furthermore we'll never know what life would bring us to... every road should be traveled, every home must be stayed, and that's it how relationship would happen to us on the way we live our live.

Life is too short.. and what i believe is : "the more you give to life the more you'll receive..." You have so much dreams, and it would be enough to enrich your life in so many ways that you never imagine before. Keep moving, keep doing things you want, seize your dreams no matter what life take you to.. and don't let anyone take your dreams away from you.

You are very bright person, with your brain you can change the whole life itself, with your hand you could also change somebody's else life, you have beauty inside that makes people respect to your life... you have so many wonderful life that you must thank for.. such bless.!!

I am a woman that comes to your life when you're traveling around the world... we met on the cross road, with so much hope to travel our live in our own way and getting closer in every crossroad. No matter what road we choose, they will never lie to us.. and it's worth traveling.

take good care in your road, and i thank GOD to have you in the road i am traveling in right now.

lots of love
yours...

2007-02-06T23:35:00.000-08:00

Another two days vacations....

It's not because a national holidays, it's caused by flood in Jakarta. I have another two days vacation because the electricity in "Wisma Budi" didn't work. It just bored for me. I prefer to have a class than stay in my boarding house. Why? because I already have a weekend for take a rest and doing something other than in the resource center. I just watched some movies and Linggar and Cristopher Abimanyu concert. Hem, they sang "the prayer" together, that's way I'm proud of my fiance. She has a high quality of sound, smart and mature..... (he2...). I'll give some pictures of them as soon as possible.
It's more than two weeks since I met my fiance, also my family. Hem, I miss u all.... see you

2007-02-01T21:54:00.000-08:00

Flood Everywhere in Jakarta

I have an IELTS simulation test today. I waked up early at 6.30 and the rain was not stopped yet. I took a bath and ate some biscuits, I still not aware yet about the rain. Finished with my biscuits, I went up hurry to IALF.
I must have a breakfast first, then I go to "WARUNG TEGAL" around my boarding house. I arrived at 07.45 and a lot of my friend got late because some road in Jakarta covered by water.
If you want to know the recent situation in Jakarta, visit http://thejakartapost.com or http://www.detik.com

2007-01-29T19:26:00.000-08:00

Wonderful Day

What a wonderful day, I got my monthly stipend from AusAid. Hi2... this just a joke. I'll give you another story later because I am in the middle of the computer class now.

2007-01-28T23:29:00.000-08:00

A journey to Taman Anggrek Mall.....

I wake up late that morning. I have a date with Elis and Wulan (my pre-departure program classmate at IALF) to go to Taman Anggrek Mall. But unfortunately Wulan must look for a boarding house for her sister. I went to Sarinah Plaza by busway and met Elis there. That was the first time I use busway. It was a first good impression about Jakarta's transportation. Maybe this was a good decision made by "Bang Yos" to develop a mass transportation.
Finally, we met at Sarinah Plaza and continued our travel to Taman Anggrek Mall. Firstly we go to Ratu Plaza by taxi and then we use the "kopaja 66" bus to Komdak (it's a place near the Metropolitan Police Department). We change our first bus with other bus to go to Taman Anggrek Mall. It was an interesting place because it was a big Mall and I have never seen it before in Semarang. (hem, so poor I am)... Just walking around and we not found any laptop store there cause Elis need to buy a new laptop. We just share about anything and it made me comfortable to this city.
We went home at 3pm but I decided to go to Ratu Plaza and walk around to look for a card reader and buy my daily needs.
Hem it was a good journey for me. That was my first experience take a walk in Jakarta. It was my first experience to go by bus in Jakarta (or maybe in other city because I usually drive my own car).
At least I have a good impression about Jakarta in terms of friendship and transportation....

see you in my next journey....

2007-01-26T19:09:00.000-08:00

Critical thinking

As a students, sometimes we must summarize a book, article or anything. After summarizing, we must write our opinion to that article or book and this opinion will be discussed later in the class.
To write a good opinion to an article or book isn't easy. We must try to understand the writing rationally, objectively and maybe subjectively according to the author's aim. We need a critical thinking ability in this term.
There are so many definitions of critical thinking. Complete definitions is :

"Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness"
(A statement by Michael Scriven & Richard Paul for the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking Instruction, http://www.criticalthinking.org/aboutCT/definingCT.shtml)

This definition sounds hard to understand, but actually by learn it day by day and implement it in every situation, we will train our critical thinking ability.

So, critical thinking is not only for understand an article, or a book? No, we can use it for any situation. Listening a headline news, watching TV, film, etc. The first thing we must do in critical thinking is focus to what we want to learn. Focus means give a full attention. After that, we can try to make some questions or arguments about what we learn. Questions or arguments not only for what we don't understand, but maybe if disagree or agree with the statement. Of course, we must do it in the rational and objective way when we try to analyze a case.

Sometimes we can try to think in the way of constructive skepticism. Constructive means that the aim what we want to do is give a positive effect to the author. Critic not always give a negative sides. So think rationally and objectively be a key in constructive skepticism.

(This writing based on my discussion in the IALF course)

== Beside critical thinking, there is critical literacy, I'll discuss it as soon as possible ==

2007-01-24T22:08:00.000-08:00

Great Discussion About Plagiarism

Today's session is about Plagiarism. Our English lecturer, Michael, gives us a reading material about plagiarism fact in a University. This reading material shocked me because there are a lot of people that do plagiarism and now they become a professor. I shocked because a thesis supervisor whom he's a professor, do a fatal plagiarism when he did his thesis to get master degree.
I realize that culture on aware and avoid plagiarism still hard to follow in Indonesia. But why? Who's wrong if a lot of students in Indonesia just stealling idea or words from other people's works?
Maybe there's no education about plagiarism in formal school?

Plagiarism is about honesty and morality....
I learn much from this day's discussion.

2007-01-24T01:38:00.000-08:00

Rainy day in Jakarta

It was two days ago since Jakarta cooled by the water from rain. Everyday always rain here, morning, noon, or afternoon. A lot of effects caused by this situation. Flood in same places, "kaki lima" food seller become more dirty, etc. It's not comfortable to take a walk in some lane specially arround my boarding house. The positive effect is the wether is cooler now compared with the average wether.

I really want to give you some picture of the condition, but unfortunatelly I don't have usb cable for my camera. Anyone have it?

2007-01-22T19:42:00.000-08:00

Two biggest Linux groups merge to be Linux Foundation

www.chinaview.cn 2007-01-23 09:30:28

BEIJING, Jan. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- The two biggest supporters of Linux software have merged to form the Linux Foundation.

A San Francisco non-profit, the Free Standards Group, have merged with Open Source Development Labs of Beaverton, Ore., the organizations said on Tuesday in a joint statement.

The Linux operating system competes with Microsoft Windows and Unix as the computer platform for other software programs to run on. It is open-source software, which means the code is publicly available and can be changed by anyone.

The Linux foundation's members include major technology companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Oracle, as well as the two largest Linux makers, Novell and Red Hat. It will be led by Jim Zemlin, former executive director of the Free Standards Group.

The new group will defend Linux vendors and customers against intellectual property lawsuits. It also plans to help increase usage of Linux by aiding development of the software and helping the operating system work with open-source and proprietary software.

(Agencies)

from http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/23/content_5640559.htm

From me :
Indonesia has a lot of capable and competent person to develope many open source system. Unfortunatelly, The government not too concern about this. Government of Indonesia must pay a lot for proprietary software. It doesn't mean that we can't use the propietary software, but there are a lot of software that can be used freely to support their work.
I'm wondering if all of intelectual in software engineering work together with government to use and develope a cheap software...... hem... maybe I can join it.

2007-01-22T01:11:00.000-08:00

Mandala Airlines, what happens?

I have reserved ticket to go to Jakarta long before the day I want to go. I reserved one ticket for me, and one return ticket for my viansee. The flight was delayed at 18 January 2007 from 18.25 to 21.00. It's so long even there were an announcement about this problem early in the morning before I went to airport.
I enjoy the flight at night, and I arrived to Jakarta almost at 10pm. But unfortunatelly, a day before my viansee flight at Sunday, 21 January 2007, Mandala call us and said that all flights at 21 to 25 January was cancelled beacuse the planes not suitable to fly. Hem, I'm dissaponted but it's Ok because it's better that they cancelled the flights then there would be another risk.
This announcement is too late. We were confused because there's no airplane ticket alvailable for the next day because it's a holiday, there's no agent that give a service (or we don't know).
My viansee's brother helpe us to fine the ticket via online service, and finally we got the Garuda ticket....

Hem, a nice experience. this night, my viansee must be in the midlle of her profession examination. I hope that you successfuly past the test.

2007-01-22T01:05:00.001-08:00

My First day in IALF

I've been in Jakarta for one week, I stay in Jl. Setia Budi Tengah 10A Jakarta Selatan. This is my first day in my course at IALF. What a huge facilities here (free and fast internet, a lot of collection of book, many television connected to satellite, hotspot, exclusive class, native teacher, etc). I'm wondering that some of you (PAK MUL Community) increase your English ability to get an Australian Government Scholarship.
Actually, the English requirenment is not too high, only 500 (TOEFL) or 5.0 (IELTS). It's easy to reach if you learn hard.

Hem, Cakil has came to my boarding house last day, he came accompanied by his girl friend. We plan to go to Frater Sigit's house and maybe Jonte's house if the busway project is finished. I don't know yet about Komeng's house. I'm sorry if I can't go to your places because I have no car or motorcycle.

2007-01-02T21:12:00.000-08:00

Good bye 2006

2006, year that full of colors. awarded an Australian scholarship, engaged. But a year that full of disaster too. Earthquake in klaten and yogya, tsunami in pangandaran, mud flood in porong sidoarjo, etc.... A lot of people died caused by that disaster. I hope we can find the "Blessing in disguise" from 2006.

2007, started with some transportation accidents, such as airplane and ships. A lot of people must die in that accidents. Who's fault? weather? navigation? human error? Until now, there are a lot of people still missing in the adam air accident and km senopati. hem, is this a sign for us?

2006-11-29T23:44:00.000-08:00

My Engagement

November 25, 2006 become my memorial day. I have engaged with someone... At first, it's so strange when I must use a ring in my finger. It's because I never wear acessories in my body. I like a freedom, free to choose someone that I love, free to express my passion. I'm happy with all of this. Try to keep the faith...

2006-11-20T00:02:00.000-08:00

Happy B'Day for me

I'm 25 years old now, I'm happy for it. many friends call or sms me and say "Happy B'day". Thank you for all my friend, my brother, sister, my beloved, for all of your support. I hope I could improve myself to be better, to have more in quality......

God bless us

2006-11-15T19:21:00.000-08:00

Five Steps of Ignatian Paradigm in Teaching and Learning

As a lecturer, I found a lot of problems in teaching and learning process. Not all of students have high motivation in learning, especially in the class. Only about 30% students can reach the aim of the subject. The other 70% do not have efforts to get the subject's aim. I try to observe why they aren't have interest to the subject. I teach a subject that have lack of theory, and students being bored with that. It's a big problem for me as a teacher.
I found a book from Jesuit community about how they design the teaching and learning method in the class. This method is called Ignatian Pedagogy. There are five important steps in this paradigm:

1.Context of learning.
Fundamental theory and the aim of the subject must be introduced to students in the beginning of the class. Knowing the aim and fundamental theory, students are motivated about the importance this subject to their future. I try to design the simplest fundamental theory so it can be understand by students easily.

2.Experience
After they got the fundamental theory and know the aim of the subject. I design a case study and give them task to observe this case study. I try to design a case study that present in their daily live and easy to understand. As an example in database design subject, I ask the students to analyze the requirement of a local company in order to build an information system for that company. Students choose the company by them self and observe by their own method.

3.Reflection
In this steps, students try to give feedback to their own analysis by discussing it. After that, they must design the system based on their analysis in formal method given at the context of learning step.

4.Action
The students try to implement to code based on the design they made before. In this action, the students have a new problem on how to implement the design into code. They try to solve this problem by learning the programming language that they need by them self. Of course we must help them by giving the resource that they need and supervise them.

5.Evaluation
This is an important step for the students to evaluate their task. The students perform their task in a presentation and the other students and me give feedback to what they have did. Students so happy when they finish their task and evaluated by other students and the lecturer.

By doing something, they learn by them self about the subject. As lecturer, I just want to be a facilitator for them. And by doing something, students will have an experience that will stay longer in their mind compared with only listening in the class or reading a textbook. I'm happy with the result, because more then 50% of students that passed this subject with good mark. I ask students to evaluate this method and almost all of them said that this method is easier to understand. I try to implement this pedagogy in all of my subject such as Computer Organization, Database Programming, Relational Database Management System, Database Administration, Embedded System, etc. Hem, anyone to share with me about teaching and learning method......

2006-11-14T21:51:00.000-08:00

INDOSITY PROJECT

Indosity is a computer application for creative exploration, evaluation and training in urban design and planning within a Southeast-Asian context. Trainees and users can build models of quarters or part of cities by arranging predefined building modules. The urban area created can then be discussed and checked for design flaws from it's physical shape and relating urban figures and metrics.

'Indosity' aims at building up skills for :

Reading and creating 2D plans for contextual urban quarters from a 3D point of view
Understanding functions of building modules
Understanding relations between building modules
Understanding relations between form and function
Tackling 'empty' spaces

Team :
User requirements : Dr.-Ing. Markus Zand B.Sc. M. Arch. (Urban design and planning)
Technical Architecture : Thomas Zwicker M.Sc (Software Design)
Design, Implementation and Testing : Computer Science Faculty of Soegijapranata Catholic University Semarang
R. Setiawan Aji Nugroho (Database)
Daniel Adinugroho (Artificial Intelligence)
Reviewing Board : Dr.-Ing. Markus Zand B.Sc. M. Arch.

2006-11-14T21:30:00.000-08:00

Budgeting Software for Government Territory

My Latest project is to create a software for managing budget in government territory. I collaborate with SPMU-TPSDP of Economic Faculty of Diponegoro University. This software will be implemented in some government consul in Indonesia.
The idea of this project is based on the new Internal Affairs Ministry rule no.13 2006 about budget management in government territory. This software created because this rule has some fundamental differences with the old one in format or in the code. People will have a lot of problem if they arrange it manually because there are a lot of dynamics code and value that must be reported. Using this software, all account reported and computed automatically.

2006-11-09T23:30:00.000-08:00

Mathematic Logic Competition 2
Computer Science of Soegijapranata Catholic University

MLC 2 is a higly prestigious competition for high school students because there are about 40 students choosed and compete in an online mathematic logic test.

This is the second time Computer Science Faculty of Soegijapranata Catholic Unversity held a highly competitive competition. But why should mathematics logic? Students often scared with mathematic lesson in the class because it's lack of algorithm and a lot of things to be remember. But, actually there are a lot of parts of mathematics that do not need any algorithm knowledge, just use our logic ability. But it's not easy as our imagination, and this is a new chalenge for students who wants to improve their logic ability.

Just check out at http://www.unika.ac.id/lomba

2006-11-09T22:22:00.000-08:00

My Lovely Laptop

Brand : Elitegroup Computer System
Type : A535+
Proc : AMD Athlon XP 1400+
Memory : 384 Mhz
HD : 20G
OS : Novell Suse 10.1

It's a cheap laptop, but it's so important for me....
It gives me much, and I love it.
Actually I'm confused whether I must buy a new laptop for my further study or not. I need a laptop with high specification, but I don't know. I just can't leave my old notebook.... hem....
it's not my first or second love but, I think it's nice. Althoug the battery is dropped and it's quite heavy.....

2006-11-08T20:31:00.000-08:00

hai...hai..hai, so long to be absent from this blog... but a lot of things that i must do...
hem, finally, I got a scholarship from ausaid... it's so nice for me.... I'll study at australian university at july 2007. I must take the English for Academic Purpose Course at IALF Jakarta, start from 22 January 2007... for about 3 months...

What a wonderful gift from Lord, thanks for everything I got....