Last night when I browse the net, I felt the web was snappier. I checked I/O stat, the downstream was around 90s KB/s. I went to speedtest.net immediately and test the speed. For connection to local server in Jakarta, International connection to Washington DC, The thing is, I was subscribed Fastnet 384 Kbps but I [...]
I don’t really remember how did I get into Big.com, the site’s name is quite unique but it’s not directly reflect the content of it. The site is just another search engine that optimized for reading, that’s what Big is all about. This site is powered by Yahoo for it’s search engine and since it’s [...]
Yesterday I went to the Mal by bus. It’s rare for me to take public transport and it’s the second time I took internal shuttle bus after years living in the neighborhood. After I get in the bus, there were only 3 passengers in it. There was and old lady sat in front of me. [...]
Few days ago, I was having lunch with my friend at next building cafeteria. The building’ location is in Jakarta business district where high raised building crammed. White collar workers swarming the streets at lunch hour looking for places to rest and lunch. Those white collar workers are educated workers, I believe most of them [...]
It’s been a long and never ending debate topic among web users whether full or partial feed better. It’s been discussed and debated. These two kind of feeds have their own strength and weakness and it’s depend mostly on the users. Some people prefer full feed so they can read on their favorite reader and [...]
I was stumble upon a question whether can animal get hypnotized? Nowadays in Indonesia hypnotize is quite popular. After Dedy Corbuzier surfacing as a mentalist, Rommy Rafael came up as hypnotherapist icon. Later Nathalia Sunaidi debuted with her book about past life regression. But no one ever try to hypnotize animal. This wacky video is [...]
Cloning is one of major leap in biology but It rocks the religionists boat hard time. Cloning is playing god they said. I’m not gonna argue about it here but I found an interesting article from Buddhism perspective written by an Indonesian PhD living in the US. It’s unlike theism religion, they get along pretty [...]
Here is a packed “freestyle” daily Singlish dictionary I got sometime ago. This list contains some harsh language. Enjoy. A list of Singlish terms and expressions widely used in Singapore is set out below. It is not exhaustive and is meant to provide some representative examples of Singlish usage in Singapore. The origins of the [...]
If you have no idea what is Gravatar, then this writing may give you clue about it. Do you familiar with avatar concept in web? Avatar in web is an image to represent ourself. This identity may be applied to Instant Messenger program that mostly known for chat such as Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk or MSN [...]
After a while having my blog hosted at wordpress.com, I don’t find any motivation to write at all. One or two posts in a month is not a good sign. I need something to motivate me more. Maybe I don’t have any sense of belonging towards my wordpress.com hosted blog. Not many customization and personalization [...]