Quick and simple cooking @ simplyrecipes.com

I love to cook, although I don't cook as often as I wanted to.

Mainly just quick prep food. Most of the time, they are instant noodle.

This site has a collection of quick-to-made recipes, along with quite clear instructions, and most importantly, color pictures.

Simply Recipes

Another free stock photo site

I stumbled upon quite a good site for free stock photo.

http://www.freerangestock.com

How Nerd Are You?

Another Plane Crash, again...

The third major plane crash in 3 months period.

I don't know what to say except my deepest condolences to all the victims.

These are some video screen grabs from the news (by MetroTV) :
(Taken from a mail circulating around. Thanks to the person who snapped these pics)

Did you know that you can blog from Google Docs & Spreadsheets?

This blog is posted from Google Docs.

Yayasan Kesehatan Payudara Indonesia

Kanker Payudara adalah pembunuh no 2 di Indonesia setelah Kanker Rahim. (Menurut apa yang saya dengar kemarin di Radio Delta FM).

Risk kanker payudara semakin meningkat dewasa ini dikarenakan kondisi lingkungan hidup dan gaya hidup sekarang. Polusi udara semakin parah, bahan2 pengawet makanan, dan juga polusi yang masuk kedalam makanan.

Parahnya penyakit kanker payudara di stadium dini tidak menimbulkan sakit, sehingga wanita (dan juga pria) yang terjangkit tidak menyadarinya. Diteksi dini hendaknya dilakukan secara rutin oleh para wanita, bisa dimulai dengan self-check secara rutin.

Yayasan Kesehatan Payudara Indonesia adalah salah satu pusat informasi (hotline) yang berhubungan dengan Kanker Payudara. www.pitapink.com

Adam Air crashed..... (RIP for all who died...)

It is sad to start a new year with this accident. A plane from Jakarta to Manado, via Surabaya was lost. Up until this very moment (03 January 2007, 13:22), the whereabout of the plane (or the wreckage) is still unknown.

Yesterday, Indonesian government received and announced some false information about the plane being found and there are 12 survivors. Later last night, they reissued some statement announcing that the plane has not been found.

Updated news can be found in Google News

Searching more on the web, I found out that the plane crash is an accident waiting to happen.

Some interesting 'facts' I found :
- Lame maintenance/service records of Adam Air's plane. It had been mentioned 4 months ago in airliner.net. link

- The owner, Adam Suherman, is only 22 years old. Drop out of foreign university, came back home, and his dad give him money to start this airline business. 22 years old, school drop out, and rich brat. Would you trust you life by flying with his company?


- Adam Air was founded in 2002 by Agung Laksono and Sandra Ang. Agung is the Indonesian House of Representative Leader.
With his as the political backing, no wonder in the last incident (a plane went lost in sky, but luckily landed safely in a small airport), there's little, if not none, investigation going to probe the safety of this airline.

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A discussion @ a local forum, indoflyer.net : link

In Memoriam : James Kim

I don't know James personally. Knew him only from the TechTV plus a few gadget reviews @ cnet.

Last November, after ThanksGiving, he along with his wife and 2 daughters got lost in the Oregon wilderness. After the 14 days ordeals, his wife and the daughters were saved, but unfortunately James didn't make it. He left to find some resque a couple of days before the resque team found the wife and daughter. He died of hypothermia.

I spent a couple of years in Oregon. The scenic is just beautiful. It is so sad that it can also kills.

Click here for the story @ SFGate.

This is a detail map of their journey. If he can survive another 2 miles down the creek, he would have found a lodge where they can shelter for sometime.


Here's a link to GoogleEarth based projection.

quick tip : how to send WOL magic package

From Linux :
http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/

From OSX :
http://www.coriolis.ch/article18.html

From PC :
http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.aspx

What needed :
- IP ADDRESS
- Netmask
- MAC ADDRESS

quick note : SCP command line

SCP (Secure Copy)

syntax : scp -P [port number] [local/source file] [username]@[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:[remote path]

default port will be tcp 22

Free Stock Photo

My sis in-law is opening a noodle shop. So, it'll become my 'duty' to design a menu for her. The problem is that she doesn't have a decent picture of a bowl of noodle, so I have to quest for a decent picture of a bowl of noodle.


First stop, www.fotografer.net, a local photographer community portal. I signed up, and search for 'noodle'. Found a couple. But, in order to view them in viewable size (not thumbnail), the portal need to verify my true identity by requesting me to scan my ID and email the scanned ID to them.
(This is not secure practice, although in this case, I trust fotografer.net. **NEVER SCAN AND EMAIL YOUR ID CARD TO SOMEONE YOU DON'T KNOW PERSONALLY**)
Anyway, I don't have time to scan my ID, and wait for them to verify me.

So I give uncle Google a call. Most of the results are Royalty-Free Stock Photo, which is not really free, but you have to paid for the picture and then you can use the picture freely.


One result came out, http://www.sxc.hu. It's a community portal that exchanges 'stock photo'. Free. :) It does need a registration before you can 'download any picture.


I found the noodlelicious noodle picture. :)

Online Favicon Generator

To quickly create a favicon for a web site, you can visit this site http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/

Visit the site to generate a favicon.ico from image that you have, preferably an 16x16 or 32x32 pixel images.

Put the favicon.ico @ your site.

Put the following text into your html code inside head section

link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"

Creating mini zine from 1 sheet of paper

From boing2.net link

How to create a mini-zine from one piece of paper.

Link to the original flicker set : link

RAID information

This site provide a good illustrated information about RAID system

http://www.acnc.com/raid.html

Hi Roy! :)

Sudah lama tidak mendengar kabar dari pakar multimedia ternama di Indonesia, KRMT Roy Suryo. Hi Roy!

Lagi sepi orderan yah?

http://www.jawapos.co.id/index.php?act=detail_c&id=239720

Playboy Indonesia, Second Edition : Magazine with no ads.

After vacumm for 1 month, Playboy Indonesia (PI) rolled out the second edition of its magazine in Indonesia in June 2006.

The first edition which came out in April 2006, drawed much protest, mainly from the close minded self-claimed religious extreme groups. As the result of the protests :
- The office building where Playboy Indonesia resided, got ransacked by Front Pembela Islam (Islam Defender Front).
- After the raid, PI moved to another office, still in Jakarta. Due to an uncondusive safety (Jakarta Police Department, shame on you....), PI suddenly just dissapeared. Aparently the staff worked from home, while the main office relocated to Bali.

Playboy Indonesia, accused of being pornographic, actually contained no nude picture whatsoever. I was thinking of joining the next FPI demonstration to PI office. Hey, maybe those dudes from FPI were angry because they felt decieved when they expected fully nude babes only to find out babes in sexy cloths. They maybe wanted to demand their money back!! :)

Playboy Indonesia might be one of its kind. Maybe the first Playboy that contain no nudity. Maybe the first Playboy that published in the world most moslem populated country in the world. One thing for sure, there are 10+ man entertainment magazines in Jakarta prior Playboy Indonesia (plus dozens of yellow news papers), and they are more 'vulgar', yet only Playboy drew a lot of protest because and only because its name, PLAYBOY.

The second edition of Playboy Indonesia came out last week. In one talk show, the chief editor told the audience that they had asked the distribution agents to closely monitor the distribution. Playboy is suppose to be sold only instore, and never meant to be sold in the traffic light. (a few days ago, I saw the newspaper boy was offering PI @ traffic light.)

Content are still the same. No nudity. :(
A good interview with Tibo (the might be wrongly accused death-sentenced terrorist). One or two playboy cartoons. Raw data. Playboy Advisor (which I think are fake, since the letters and answers seems like a stiff translation rather than a real letter written by a real Indonesian.

What's interesting with this edition, is that it might be the only commercial magazine that contain no advertising at all. (well, there's a mini 3cm by 3cm picture of a man perfume sponsoring a forum.). In space of the advertisings, Playboy has writen 'This place is dedicated to our client that was threatened when they advertise with us. This place is reserved for (a cigarette ads)".

So guys, run to your nearest magazine stalls, and buy this magazine, not because the sexy babes (if you're looking for that, get another magazine... they offer more skins for your Rupiah), but because of its uniqueness. It can be the reminder for all of us, that tolerance and so called democracy in Indonesia is still a one point of view system. When some ppl disagree with others point of view, they will resort to violance at the first step.

quickie : how to boot into single user mode in Linux

Last week, due to an error in our mail server, I was looking for a way to boot into single user mode. (I'm not an expert in Linux, so I have to google. :))

Yesterday, a friend of mine reminded me. I better write it down rather than google it again when I need it.

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if boot_manager = GRUB then :
- type p if you passworded GRUB.
- Select the kernel you want to boot with, and type e.
- You will have a bunch of lines at your screen. Select the one with kernel and type e to edit the line.
- Go to the end of the line and type single
- Press enter, and type b to boot.

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Spam, part deux

Beberapa setelah gempa Djogja, beredar spam/hoax via email dan sms yang mengatakan bahwa akan ada gempa susulan dalam beberapa hari yang akan lebih dahsyat dari gempa Jogja.

"Menurut CNN,disiarkan 3 hari yang lalu bahwa lempeng bumi di australia sedang bergerak ke utara menuju asia.diperkirakan bisa bertubrukan dengan lempeng bumi di selatan pulau jawa.Diperkirakan 11 hari setelah gempa jogja, atau rabu besok(7 juni) akan adagempa dahsyat dan memungkinkan terjadinya tsunami.Mohon doanya n plis forward ke temen-temen laen, jagan sampai putus di tangan kamu."

Saya pikir hoax semacam ini cuman akan berlalu, dan tidak akan ada yang secara serius menanggapinya. Tapi saya mungkin salah ketika ada media cetak yang mengutip hoax ini.

Priyadi memaparkannya lebih lanjut tentang hoax ini di blognya.

2 hal yang perlu dipoint out :
- sangat menyedihkan kalau dalam bencana Djogja, masih ada orang yang iseng menyebarkan hoax untuk kesenangan pribadi.
- sangat prihatin juga melihat keterbatasan sebagian masyarakat dalam menyaring informasi dan juga kemampuan dari information-mining. Jaman sekarang, so many information, so little truth.

Pedoman untuk menjadi seorang manusia

Ketemu satu blog dengan 'pedoman' yang cukup mengelitik di http://jimjimblund-snicksnack.blogspot.com/.

Terjemahannya kira2 adalah sbb :

1. Anda akan menerima sebuah tubuh. Suka tidak suka, itu akan menjadi milik Anda untuk waktu saat ini.

2. Anda akan belajar. Anda akan masuk ke sekolah informal yang dinamakan kehidupan. Setiap hari di sekolah ini, Anda akan mempunyai kesempatan untuk belajar pelajaran. Anda mungkin akan menyukai pelajarannya, atau berpikir bahwa mereka adalah hal2 yang tidak berguna.

3. Tidak ada yang namanya kesalahan, yang ada hanya pelajaran. Bertumbuh adalah sebuah proses mencoba dan salah, experiment. Experimen yang 'gagal' adalah bagian dari proses, sama halnya dengan experimen yang 'berhasil'.

4. Sebuah pelajaran akan diulangi sampai dimengerti. Sebuah pelajaran akan disuguhkan kepada Anda dalam berbagai macam bentuk sampai Anda mengerti. Sewaktu Anda mengerti, Anda akan mendapatkan pelajaran lain.

5. Proses belajar tidak akan berakhir. Tidak ada bagian dari kehidupan yang tidak mengandung pelajaran. Jika Anda hidup, maka ada pelajaran-pelajaran untuk dipelajari.

6. "Di sana" tidak lebih baik dari "di sini". Ketika Anda "di sana", akan menjadi "di sini", dan Anda akan menemukan "di sana" lain yang akan kelihatannya lebih baik dari "di sini".

7. Orang lain hanyalah cerminan dari diri Anda. Anda tidak dapat mencintai atau membenci sesuatu tentang orang lain, kecuali jika sesuatu itu merefleksikan apa yang anda cintai atau yang anda benci tentang diri Anda sendiri.

8. Apa yang Anda akan perbuat dengan hidup Anda adalah terserah Anda. Anda memiliki semua alat dan perlengkapan yang cukup. Apa yang Anda akan perbuat dengannya adalah terserah Anda. Anda bebas memilih.

9. Jawaban-jawaban Anda ada di dalam diri Anda sendiri. Jawaban untuk pertanyaan-pertanyaan sekitar kehidupan ada di dalam diri Anda sendiri. Yang Anda butuhkan hanyalah membuka mata anda, membuka telinga Anda, dan sebuah kepercayaan.

10. Anda akan melupakan semua hal di atas.

Blast from the past

3 days ago I received a 'hi' email from a long lost good friend. "A Good friend". :)

It's true that time will heals all wounds. It was so painfull at the last good bye. Sorrow and betrayed.

6 years passed by.

She lives happily with her husband and a 4.5 yo son now.

Her sister was married and has a 1.5yo kid.

Her parents, good old folks, moved to SF. Good for them to less worried of their two daughters and enjoy the retirement.

She owns a furniture shop in Manila, and plans to open an asian cafe with her sis in SF.

I'm married to my wonderful wife and got two babies (1 and 2 yo).

Looking back, sometimes I wonder of how stupid of me trying to fight for a lost cause. But if I didn't I will never know, and my path would be different.

Time will heals all wounds... and it did. :)

Nice to see you again my friend. :)