Re-discovered

Today is the day where I can say that something had been awesome. If you wonder why…

When we were born, we were nothing. really, nothing. we were not that special. probably not even considered as something that useful. Because at that time we were useless. We can’t do anything except crying and we were controlled by practically our emotion. If we were hungry, we cried; when we were in pain we screamed so loud. and even when we were feel neglected, our emotion cannot accept that and led to something that will shed some tears to our eyes.

Please don’t get me wrong, I do agree when they said that giving birth and babies both are the miracle of life. And babies are so wonderfully brighten up our day even just by looking at them. Those creatures, those lumps, are one of the most precious phase of human ever created.

Then as time goes by, we educated ourself, we start to realize that we do have some special abilities that we called tallent. We have that without have to work so hard. We don’t know and understand where that comming from. Was it from our chilhood society or environment? But who cares! Not just talent, many other things that we can have it naturally, including our appearance. The fact and sadest part is that you were there but no one noticed.

We continued our life as a normal person until one day someone might realize what do we have, what do we capable with. When that happened, suddenly things changed rapidly. From us who are being nothing to us who now famous to where people know us. They begin to taking into account our abilities. They’re reading about our stories, writing about our life. Even, to some extent, public start celebrating our birthday.

Sadly not every person on this earth have this oportunity. For those whose lucky enough to get this experience of life might be really grateful of what they have right now. However we have to keep in mind that every stories attached on every person are the finest and awesome journey of their life. Don’t judge of what they were, because they are in the past and the only we can wisely do is memorizing and keeping them in our mind.

So, as this day I can only say that every person are precious. They have things that you might not have. Don’t be greedy, don’t too cocky, don’t be judgemental of others because we know that they are capable of “somthing” that we probably don’t know yet. Until they finally been…. discovered.

Happy Australia Day, 26 January 2012. 224 years ago this is the day where australias was discovered. It was already and has been there for so long. then somehow we eventually found this magnificent land of down under…

TF3 Trailer

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.transformersmovie.com/videowidget/videoWidget.html?v=TF3_TRAILER_1024.

Cant wait to see this awesome movie…

PHP Codes: Resizing Image Class

When I was updating one of my client website, I was facing a problem with image resizing. My client is a photographer but he doesn’t know anything about web technologies, so I have to make the website is user friendly for him to use, especially when he is about to upload his photos to the site.

Now, the challenge is how to make him uploading just the photos themselves through ftp without have to worry about resizing those photos for the thumbnails to be appeared on the website. In that case, I have to create an algorithm to resizing the photo automatically every time the page is loading on that particular page. So that the page will only display the thumbnail, not the real high resolution photos of him.

After struggling with the idea, I did a quick search via Google, then luckily found a PHP class written by Simon Jarvis that fitted my need perfectly. It’s really simple and easy to use. The class called SimpleImage and it has the functionality to resize image and save it to anywhere we want.

The SimpleImage Class is available at White Hat Web Design website and written under GNU General Public Licence.

Ascalc Update: Location

February 25, 2011.

Crap it’s been a month already!

It looks like the plan to make a presentation about Ascalc have to be postponed. Things get really tricky when starting working on the detail. I have just finish working on the location.

Now, Ascalc is be able to get user location. The users have three option in order to select their location. Considering user might be in Observatorium, Planetarium, University, or even in other part of the world. I think this is covering all aspect not just place where academia might stand but also other part of the earth.

Some interesting functionalities in this feature, to name a few:

WordPress Plugin: Lazy Bookmark

Lazy bookmark is formerly known as Website Registration. It a wordpress plugin that receives URL address from administrator/user and collects basic meta information about the Title of the site, the IP Address, the Authors, The Keywords, and the Description. If you recall about the structure of a website, under <head> tag usually there are metadata like this:

<meta name="description" content="...some description...">
<meta name="keywords" content="... some keywords ...">
<meta name="authors" content="... some authors ...">

WordPress Plugin: Website Registration 1.3.3

This plugin has changed its name to Lazy Bookmark as it’s more suitable with its main functionality. The detail of Lazy bookmark plugin can be accessed here or from the wordpress plugin page.

Proudly to say that this is my first plugin posted in the wordpress repository. This is just a simple plugin, but not as simple when I made em. The plugin receives URL address from you/user and collects basic meta information about the Title of the site, the IP Address, the Authors, The Keywords, and the Description. Remember in a website/webpage usually there are metadata like this:

Snowflakes

Ha! been a while.

So the year has changed and so the theme of my creepy blog. It’s black and… sexy? I guess the beauty of it is because there’s a snow comes fall down from top of the screen. And kinda weird since how it is possible to have snow up there in the space. But too bad this is the last day for the snowing ‘coz I really like this feature as I have the thing for snow.

Bye snow…

Now the snow’s over and lets move on…

Blekko: Slash The Web

Baru-baru ini muncul ke permukaan dunia maya sebuah search engine (mesin pencari) baru yang bernama Blekko. Tidak seperti search engine lainnya, Blekko tidak hanya menawarkan pencarian berdasarkan relevansi tetapi juga menawarkan fitur baru yang disebut dengan nama Slashtag. Secara sederhana Slashtag menawarkan kepada pengguna agar dapat mengkustomisasi sendiri hasil pencariannya. Contohnya, apabila kita menyertakan /date pada form pencarian maka hasil dari pencarian akan di sortir bedasarkan waktu terkini.

Beberapa fungsi Slashtag dapat dilihat ditabel berikut ini:

slashtag	Fungsi
/date	Untuk mensortir berdasarkan waktu waktu terkini
/tech	untuk menampilkan halaman-halaman website yang bernuansa teknologi
/blog	Untuk menampilkan hasil pencarian yang merupakan blog
/forum	Untuk menampilkan hasil pencarian yang merupakan forum
/rank	Untuk menampilkan link-link halaman website beserta perbedaan rangking antara satu webpage dengan yang lainnya

Kumpulan Slashtag yang siap digunakan dapat dilihat di website Blekko (http://blekko.com/tag/show).

Selain itu, pengguna dapat sendiri membuat Slashtag nya sesuai dengan keperluannya masing-masing. Untuk membuat Personal Slashtag ini, harus terlebih dahulu memiliki account Blekko (register dan login). Beberapa fungsi dari Personal Slashtag ini yaitu agar user dapat meminimalisasi halaman-halaman web dengan menghilangkan halaman-halaman yang dianggap spam oleh user, dan agar dapat mencari hanya dari website yang diinginkan saja. User dapat pula menggunakan Personal Slashtag milik user lainnya selama Slashtag tersebut di share kepada publik (atau kepada pengguna tertentu).

Fitur lainnya yang dimiliki oleh Blekko adalah Spam Labelling, yaitu kita bisa menghilangkan satu atau lebih hasil pencarian yang kita anggap sebagai spam dengan cara mengklik link “spam” yang terletak di bawah judul halaman web hasil pencarian. Beberapa informasi lainnya yang dihadirkan disetiap hasil pencarian adalah IP address dari halaman web yang bersangkutan; cache dimana halaman web yang bersangkutan disimpan didalam database Blekko; links yang akan menunjukkan halaman web mana saja yang memberikan link kepada halaman yang bersangkutan; chatter untuk menambahkan komentar terhadap halaman web yang bersangkutan; dan seo yang menunjukkan statistik SEO dari setiap halaman yang bersangkutan.

Saat ini Blekko masih berstatus Beta, sehingga tentu saja performancenya masih harus ditinjau dan dievaluasi kembali serta dibandingkan dengan mesin pencari lainnya yang telah hadir terlebih dahulu selama lebih dari 10 tahun. Dari segi fitur, Blekko memang menawarkan fitur yang sering tidak ditonjolkan oleh mesin pencari lainnya (sekalipun dari segi fungsionalitas, fitur  yang ditawarkan ini bukanlah fitur yang baru) namun kita harapkan Blekko nantinya juga akan dapat bersaing sehat dengan search engine besar lainnya seperti Google dan/atau Bing.

Referensi

• Blekko Website. 2010. Retrieved on 3 November 2010. Accessible at http://blekko.com/.
• Dawson, Christopher. 2010. Blekko: Cool for the geekorati, but no Google killer. Retrieved on 3 November 2010. Accessible at http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/blekko-cool-for-the-geekorati-but-no-google-killer/2592?alertspromo=&tag=nl.rSINGLE.

Goodbye Cousin…

Dear beloved cousin,

I was always remembered you as a person who always full of laughter and I was always remembered you as a person that I am greatly admired. You went for your dream to fly. You had become a pilot. a good, talented and brave one.

You flew to places where they were hard to reach, to gave the victims of natural disaster your hand so they can have the help to fullfil their need. You flew tons of goods and aids to them. When nobody wanted to do it, you gave your hand with bravely.

I witnessed with my own eyes how you treat your family with so much respect. You were a good and wise husband to your wife and daughters, you were a good and helpful son to both of your parents, you were a good and kind brother to your little sister.

I admired you. I envied you. I remember when we were kids, my mum, dad, and I were visiting at your place, you know what you did back then? you were in front of computer playing game. But it wasn’t such a game to be precise. You were flying an airplane in a simulator for computer. You even taught me a little bit. You loved to fly as you finally managed to become a pilot. I want to be a pilot too, but I couldn’t. That what makes me so envy you.

I also remember you when we were visiting grandma and grandpa at the far east java. Our other cousin and you likely to have a small competition on how many food can he and you eat. I had a wish that one day I was challenging you, because I’ve been practicing. But, my wish would never be come true…

Now everything it’s just a dream that will never come true. Just this morning I heard that your plane gone missing and at the end of the day it was positive that you have been gone. Your airplane crashed… you were the pilot. I saw the news where they put your body in the bag and move it just like a garbage waste. They said your body was totally destroyed. Then it was impossible to see you even just one more time before we burried you.

Life is not fair for you, dear cousin. This was your last flight. This last flight should be escorting you to your family, wife and daughters. You were planning to take a test to become a pilot commercial airplane. Your nobel flight to deliver goods and aids for the victims of great flooding in Wasior, Papua had become the last duty of yours for humanity, and for earth. You were heading back to your home but you were never made it. You were taken just before you could complete your final mission by returning home and take a job as a pilot comercial airplane.

I feel devastated. But I can’t imagine what it must have been like to be your closest person: the wife and children. We hadn’t spent much time in a near past, but to see you for the last time is what I really wanted. It’s really sad that it is impossible to have that wish comes true. Not even tears can assembled your body parts back to one piece.

It was my regret when I was visiting your dad in the hospital and you went down to get and escort me where the room was, but I managed to find it by my self and we didn’t run into each other. I wished that time comes back so I can chase you and meet you again.

I do cry for you my dear cousin. believe me when I say that these tears of mine are real, as real as it could be. Why you have to go now? there are so many people that missed you a lot even when you were still alive. That what makes me believes that life is so unfair. Especially to you…

There’s nothing I can say, except a warm farewell. I know you may not be able to read this letter I made for you. Whereever you are now my dear cousin, deeply down my heart I want to say greatly thank you for what you had done to the world especially our nation, Indonesia. Indonesia is crying at the moment of all the disastrous things that happened, but half of the tears were there… for you…

Goodbye and farewell, dear cousin Adjunct Commissioner Irwan…
You will be missed… deeply…

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The accident:
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/national-police-plane-crashes-in-papua-five-feared-dead/403672

Ibu Sri Mulyani Memilih World Bank?

Rame juga berita hari ini seputar Ibu Sri Mulyani mentri keuangan RI mundur untuk menjadi Managing Director di Bank Dunia. Beritanya menyebar dengan cepat sekali dimana-mana. Tapi jadi kepikiran juga, kenapa juga ya Ibu Sri Mulyani mau menerima jabatan managing director yang katanya kantornya berlokasi di Washington DC itu. Berikut beberapa alasannya:

1. Ibu Sri Mulyani mo pamer ke DPR kalo doi bisa berperan di kancah internasional sedangkan orang2 DPR cuma bisa pamer muka di TVONE dan/atau METRO TV saja
2. Ibu Sri Mulyani mo beli baju baru yang bagus buatan designer terkenal dari hasil gaji di world bank yang isunya sebesar Rp. 3 milyar untuk jaga-jaga kalo dipanggil oleh DPR lagi
3. Ibu Sri Mulyani ngerasa Ekonomi di Indonesia gak ada tantangannya
4. Ibu Sri Mulyani merasa ini kesempatan bagus untuk mempraktekkan bahasa inggrisnya dengan baik dan benar sekaligus belajar aksen amerika juga dengan baik dan benar (abis kalau di indonesia aksennya english-chinese sih).
5. Ibu Sri Mulyani adalah seorang agen CIA yang bertugas untuk mengacak-acak sistem ekonomi di Indonesia, dan CIA sudah merasa konflik-konflik di Indonesia sudah cukup semrawut dan menarik kembali Ibu Sri Mulyani melalui jalur world bank
6. Ibu Sri Mulyani gerah sama orang main saling tuduh siapa yang bertanggung jawab terhadap kasus century, jadi mau kerja di Bank Dunia untuk ngumpulin duit yang nantinya akan diberikan kepada negara Indonesia tercinta.
7. Ibu Sri Mulyani mau balas dendam kepada orang-orang DPR yang sok tau itu dengan cara meminta bantuan kepada FBI untuk mengerjai orang-orang DPR (kantor Ibu Sri Mulyani dan markas FBI kan sama-sama di Washington).
8. Ibu Sri Mulyani gak tahan sama reporter-reporter tivi indonesia yang kerjaannya mengadu domba dan mengejar rating.
9. Ibu Sri Mulyani mau minta tanda tangan dan foto bersama Presiden Barack Obama.
10. Ibu Sri Mulyani mau jualan batik di amerika

Yah, begitulah…

Those are my reasons, now it’s your turn….