i’m in love…
2009.04.29 12:57
shoe shine boy at Kota train station… a beggar in Chinatown… —————————— she constantly intrigues me..continuously amazes me… it was her, still is and will always be..jakarta… …d city where i was born and had not until a decade ago got reacquainted.. i barely had memories of her during my childhood, perhaps only of d [...]
warung kembang sajen…the dark mystical side of Jakartan urbanites…
2009.04.28 13:30
an angkot ride is always a pleasure for me..especially when i get to sit in front, beside the driver –except when i have to share the seat with another while the driver smells ;p –… (try it sometimes, no matter how long the journey is, one can always kill time by either chatting with the [...]
…reminiscing london adventure…
2009.04.28 12:46
musang just sent a song in remembrance of our nite-’till-dawn adventure in london… Londinium from Catatonia… here’s a twist of its lyric — based on our sleepless, bittercold hours there, of course… (on the right, is the original one… Catatonia, please don’t sue us, it’s just that we have so very different feel of London.. [...]
Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”
2009.04.23 20:01
Buat yang mungkin belum tau, update terbaru sistem operasi Ubuntu Linux udah dirilis tanggal 23 April… Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” Gua sendiri baru upgrade nih, dan makin oke aja nih Ubuntu :) (Buat yang di Indonesia dan mau upgrade, kayaknya yang paling cepet kalo setting mirror-nya ke kambing.ui.edu) Kalo mau download sendiri CD-nya, bisa dari [...]
World Digital Library
2009.04.22 07:56
Baru saja diluncurkan online tanggal 21 April kemarin, situs World Digital Library oleh UNESCO, badan PBB untuk bidang pendidikan, iptek dan budaya. Silakan klik gambar cuplikan tampilan situs WDL di atas untuk mengunjungi situs-nya (akan terbuka di jendela baru). Sebagai awalan, sudah ada sekitar 1,000 manuskrip kuno kontribusi berbagai perpustakaan di dunia. Yang paling banyak, [...]
Welcome to Russia!
2009.04.16 19:28
Males banget gak sih…? :)) Tapi mungkin bisa ditiru buat promo pariwisata Indonesia lho. Karena saking aneh bin ajaib-nya tuh poster2, kok malah jadi menarik ya? :)) (I don’t think the posters were real anyway. Just some funny pics. And they’ve actually been around the Internet for sometime. From Photosight.ru)
Spring!
2009.04.15 00:54
So spring has finally arrived in Manchester, after a particularly cold and snowy winter that lasted up until March, one can say… There are still some spells of cloudy days and chilly weather, but the days are becoming more nice and warmer whenever the sun comes out. Hues of colors are starting to seep [...]
Help the Tweenbots!
2009.04.14 12:05
What would you do if you met a robot on the streets, lost and lonely and looking for directions? That’s what the Tweenbots social experiment project by Kacie Kinzer from NYU’s ITP sought to find out. A cardboard robot, that could only roll in a straight line, was put to test, with only a [...]
Guernica
2009.04.13 23:01
BBC recently ran a story about Pablo Picasso’s painting of the Guernica bombing, in remembrance of the tragic event, which occured on April 26, 1937. Guernica, a historical Basque town in the Biscay province, was victim to a particularly controversial type of air-raid bombing –known as “terror bombing“– during the Spanish Civil War. Immortalized in [...]
Bilingual (dwibahasa)
2009.04.13 16:41
I found this nice WordPress plugin, WP Multi Language Changer from Evaldo Junior Bento, which enables the switching of a post’s content to different languages through a single click. Just click on the en (English) and id (Indonesian) icons on the top of this post to try it out. Example: This is in English. [...]