Happy new shining 2008!
Happy new shining year 2008! Masih 2 jam lg,tp tak apalah. Tahun ini semuana bener2 baru. Gk usah diulang2 sepertinya. Mulai tahun ini bs deketan ma istri. Artina hrs bs lbh rukun, berkomunikasi, bertoleransi, dan lbh berpeka hati. Wehehe, lancar ya di bibir?:p dear Lord, mudahkan jalan kami. Amen.
Masuk angin
Sejak dr malang, saya dan istri udah sempat jatuh sakit. Maklum, sdari dr jogja udah diiringi hujan. Hari pertama d jombang, smalam kmudian ke surabaya. 3 jam kmudian langsung k malang dtemani pening.sampai d malang lsg tepar.keesokan malamnya departed k jogja. Malamnya, jam 8, naek kreta k jakarta. Esok malamnya jalan k PI. Angin bhembus kencang. Walhasil hari ini saya kembali pening dan terbatuk-batuk.
Ah,sehat mmg nikmat tiada tara.semoga yg sdg sakit bisa segera sembuh.smg yg sdg mendapat cobaan dan bencana dikaruniai ketabahan dan kekuatan…amin.
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baru-baru
Ah well, drivel ndak mau juga login ke blog saya. Akhirnya dengan mengedit install.rdf si ScribeFire, ekstensi ini mau juga nongol statusbar my trusted Firefox Beta 2. Untungnya juga blog yang barusan suspended (karena kesalahan sistem or so idwebhost said) bisa live kembali dengan cepat. Bravo untuk kecepatan layanannya tapi thumb down untuk kesalahannya!
Kenapa judulya baru-baru? Ah, itu karena saya bingung aja ngasih judul yang tepat :D. Sebenarnya isinya campur-campur, tapi campur-campur terlalu sering dipakai dan menandakan kalau isinya carut marut. So, baru-baru lebih tepat karena masih menimbulkan rasa ingin tahu pada pembaca. Gimana? Sudah merasa tertipu beum sejauh ini? 
Oke, ya sebenarnya memang hal-hal baru yang ingin saya ceritakan di sini. Antara lain tentang w830i saya yang baru. Yatta~. Akhirnya setelah kurang lebih tiga tahun setia memakai Nokia 3530, saya pun berganti hape modern. Saya bersyukur, dan teman sekosan saya pun (lebih) bersyukur. Maklumlah, belakangan ini 3530 saya lebih mirip alat bantu kebugaran daripada hape. Untuk menekan tombol utamanya saja harus dengan kekuatan ekstra, biasanya sampe terdengar bunyi “kreteg-kreteg” sebagai efek tergencetnya casing :D. Masih mending klo bisa terlaksana dengan sekali pencet. Kalu tidak beruntung biasanya saya malah mutung, ngambek, gemes pengen menggigit si hape X(.
Satu lagi hal yang baru: berkaraoke. Ya, budaya hura-hura? Apapun itu, saya memang baru saja mengalaminya. Ini mungkin sekaligus sebagai event perpisahan bagi saya. Maklum saja, habis ini mungkin tidak bisa sering bertemu dengan geng jogja, teman hangout dan bertukar opini. Asik juga ternyata berkaraoke, apalagi rame-rame. Mulai dari Klik sampe lagunya Cintaku Padamu (Ita Purnamasari), dan tak ketinggalan Unforgiven II yang saya duetkan bersama Didit :D. Puas deh. Timii, fotone ojo lali diupload yooo 
Laluu, masih ada lagi. Kemarin saya akhir berhasil memperoleh The Tipping Point dan Freakonomics. Dua buku ini direkomendasikan via Amazon untuk menemani The Long Tail. The Tipping Point sendiri sepertinya lebih berkonteks psikologi daripada IT, demikian halnya juga dengan Freakonomics yang sepertinya membahsa ekonomi kontemporer. Well, itu hanya dugaan saja. Bukunya masih rapat terbungkus plastik, menunggu untuk saya baca. Asiknya, buku ini berbentuk pocket book, jadi enak kalau hendak dibawa kemana-mana sebagai bacaan. Oh ya, harga The Tipping Point ini ternyata lebih miring sekitar 16 ribuan dari yang saya jumpai di toko buku biasanya. Ternyata Periplus (lantai dasar Malioboro Mall) tidak selalu terasosiasi dengan buku mahal ya? Wah, jadi pengen berkunjung rutin nih 
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Ya ya ya, itu memang Evangelion dan Gundam jadul. Sengaja beli buat koleksi. Dan yang di bawah ini, sepertinya idaman para lolicon ..
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Brand new 2008
I can recall I was wishing for a new job for 2008. God’s great. Thus, this coming 2008 will sport a brand new job, brand new office, brand new location, and definitely brand new challenges.
I’ll be relocating to Jakarta next year. Yes, finally I’m about to move to the city once I despised so much for its inhumanity and roughness. Though my wife pretty much has been living there for about 4 years(?), I never been able to fully accept Jakarta.
You: “Ya iyalah, lah wong istrimu yang hidup di sana dan bukan kamu.”
Me: “Loh, kalau orang yang kamu sayangi tinggal di suatu tempat, mau tak mau kamu juga harus mampu menerima tempat itu kan?”
The smokes, loud yelling, harsh faces, mind-yer-own-business attitudes are so much 180 degree contrast to what I’ve been dealing with in Yogyakarta. These would be a great challenge to my social skill ;). Maybe it’s my (finally) perfect (no-get-away) chance to roughen my weak-and-chickenish soul :D.
Jakarta has been associated with hard and sweaty life. My (only) hope to go on would be my lovely wife, people to look up to (F/OSS hackers), and my dreams. Hopefully I’ll be strong enough to withstand the incoming storm.
Meanwhile, I think I’ll keep my mood in good shape with more web 2.0 in the horizon. I’ll make sure I’ll hack more fun stuff next year! Yay!
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Yes, my sentences are like Mexican jumping bean. No biggie, I’ll sort out my mind later :p
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kernel panic, missing /data
Monday is here allrite. Things are cool except one thing. I got a frozen box after lunch. Restarting the box lead me to kernel panic cannot found /dev/root. Oh, crap. Rebooting the machine a few times didn’t solve the problem.
Okay, looking at the error, it seem I have a problem with my / directory. Okay, it seem that I have to manually fsck my / manually. How? This is a SATA, and I can’t found any adapter to attach to. A quick solution was suggested from a fellow from Customer Support Technician: a live cd.
Okay, I can boot with a Kubuntu 6.10. fsck on /dev/sda10. Stucked in the middle with freezing keyboard. Reset button to the rescue. And then retrying fsck. Oh, crap. Holy Batman, I have a darn long fsck log. And most lines gave funny feeling into my stomach. Things are going to be messy.
And it does. After a long fsck, I mounted the device and voila! ls command only return “lost+found”. Shimatta~. There’s nothing much left but some sql data files, some .so and some useless files. My ‘/data’ is now completely gone. ‘/data’ is my universal trunk. I have lots of files mindlessly thrown there. I can’t even remember the details :D.
Fortunately, /home was separated. Documents are also safe. I symlink-ed it to my LVM volume, which is phisically located on other disk. Yatta~! Hopefully nothing important are lost.
Well, I’ll consider this a bless of not having to think and filter my /data of which I have to clean up/back up anyway. Hahahaha.
Okay, I’ll need to move some source to my laptop to continue my week. See ya
Light my candle
There are times in life where reality does not turn out to be what we’ve been expected. For those times, let’s light the candle and keep our fighting spirit and hope alive…
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And for the other occassion, let’s BLOW THE FUCKING CANDLE UP AND FUCKING REPLACE IT WITH A BING BANG OF FIREWORK!! WOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!
Dear Lord, I thank You for every sweetness I had and every lesson I’ve learnt. Keep ‘em coming, keep me strong.
Fun map mashup ideas
I admit, this is my first time looking deeper into Maps API. There’s been a lot of overhaul since my last visit a long time ago. There’s this mapplet thing, promising to be able to make maps based app in within 5 minutes. I totally hooked on it.
I have these several data in my kitchen sink. I’ve created several Dapps and pipes. I thought why not using them for some fun activities with Maps API. There’s this geocoder object capable of translating human-readable address into machine-understandable number. OTOH, I have a city list from 21cineplex.com available via Dapper/Pipes. Voila, with a little _IG_FetchContent method and a few lines of javascript (in fact, it’s available on geocoder example) I can make a marker for every city having 21cineplex theater. And to go further, I’ve also made a dapper capable of fetching now playing list from a certain city_id. Okay, this would be great. I’ll fill the marker with now playing list, on demand when user clicked the marker. And the marker for the cities will be initialized with realtime data as well. Now, that’s what I call mashup. A pure mix and match on the web. I don’t even need to provide any backend or space nor bandwidth for hosting purposes.
Too good to be true. If only Dapper is not having error when fetching from 21cineplex.com site, I’d have been able to show something cool now. There’re two possibilities: the error is exclusively on dapper side, or 21cineplex.com is blocking dapper user agent from fetching their content. And if the later is what really happen, then it would be a total-foolness-moron-score-one-they-do-not-get-web-two-point-oh curse.
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