Archive for: April, 2008

Apr 29th, 2008

Worldometers – The Real Time World Statistics

I was stumbling around and found this interesting site, Worldometer, which is a site dedicated to world statistics that updated in real time. Worldometer is managed by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around [...]

Apr 26th, 2008

Upgrading to Wordpress 2.5.1

I have upgraded this blog to new released Wordpress 2.5.1. From the development blog, i found that the team at Wordpress also include Media Uploader fixes which in the past i found error several times. But at top of that, this is an urgent security release, so you will need to upgrade yours. Download now.

Apr 21st, 2008

PluggedIn is Useless

I went to the site several days ago but never got the chance to try it out until earlier today. Given the buzz lately i visited the site with high expectation. I am sorry for the title, but PluggedIn.com was cool until i found this: The content is not licensed for distribution outside the US. We are [...]

Apr 19th, 2008

Tetris is now a Wrestling Game

Tetris is the original time waster. It competes head to head with Solitaire in my PDA. These kind of games are also useful while wait my Firefox loads. However, i never thought this simple game could mixed nicely with Arm Wrestling (who would? I bet not even the creator!). Anyhow, Tresling is a machine that controlled [...]

Apr 16th, 2008

It’s Pope not Hope, He’s Pope with Hope

In honor of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to New York City, Michael Ian Weinfeld has created POPE, an imitation of Shepard Fairey’s Obama Hope poster (or Shepard’s involvement in Hope Artists? or both?) Or whatever. I like it so much. Got this via Laughing Squid. You can get the poster at Animal New York. Given my wife [...]

Apr 15th, 2008

1984 Book Cover Redesign

I was simply surprised to see George Orwell’s 1984 released and translated into Indonesian but i had no doubt to buy and read it. I guess it was released in mid 2003 or so here in Indo. The cover is bad compare to original English version and even worse compare to the redesign done by [...]

Apr 15th, 2008

Cool Dude Chased by Girls, Who’s The Coolest?

There are many cool dude with girls scene but these ‘cool dude chased by girls’ scene is my favorite. There’s no better way (it’s in rockstar’s skill package i suppose) to show off rockstar status to public broadcasts, i mean hoping that you can show off how you can shoot a long drug line is [...]

Apr 14th, 2008

Jeffry A. Timmons Passed Away

Prof. Jeffry A. Timmons was a pioneer in Entrepreneurship Education. I’m sending out my deep condolences as he died unexpectedly on April 8, 2008, at his winter home in South Carolina at the age of 66. From his page in Babson College: Known internationally for his research, innovative curriculum development, and teaching in entrepreneurship, new ventures, entrepreneurial [...]

Apr 12th, 2008

Does Your Wordpress Theme Plugin Friendly?

I’ve been messing up with dozens of Wordpress Themes, either for my own blogs and lately for my client’s blogs. Lately i’ve been experimenting by converting a CSS template into Wordpress template. When i finished my first template, i was like, OMG i can make a wordpress template by my own, but then, i found [...]

Apr 12th, 2008

Obey Giant Art Print

I am not more than another Obey Giant’s a.k.a. Shepard Fairey t’shirt collector (by far i have 7 of them) among other cool brands, but to evangelist his work is always fun. This time, Obey come up with this fine print art products which is so very cool. The print art available in 3 colors [...]

Apr 11th, 2008

It’s my Birthday

Weird. I’ve been celebrating my birthdays for 35 times. Never been a fan of fancy birthdays, in fact i’ve never agree that a birthday is a special day until i met my wife. At least, i still believe that celebrating birthdays is beyond than just a reason to celebrate life. Today, i got 2 happy [...]

Apr 11th, 2008

Math Tattoo

Met some mathematicians back at university but none of them have tattoos. Most people i know have tattoos, but somehow, noone has cooler ink than this (sorry my friends… ). Dude i love this guy’s attitude, here’s what he said about his tattoo: I got the tattoo because I like the idea of math not being [...]

Apr 10th, 2008

YouTube is Back!

I never realize that YouTube has been play a great part in my internet life until the site was stupidly blocked for the last 4 days by my ISP. Somehow, the condition developed as more and more people here realize that blocking the site is just overdoing a good idea on paper. If you live in [...]

Apr 8th, 2008

Addicted to Something

Today is not a good day, i can’t finish my checklists at work. I noticed that it’s a super simple  recurring administrative tasks. I don’t know why, i just gave up. I decide to turn off my computer and went to take a day nap, and i wonder… I’m a diehard Manchester United fan (and [...]

Apr 7th, 2008

Nostalgic Album for Lemonheads Fans

Image from Wikipedia I’m a big fan of Evan Dando’s Lemonheads. I play hardcore metal in my music days, but i’m also a big fan of acoustic guitar. Everytime i need songs to play on my acoustic guitar, Lemonheads songs were always my choice to play on the first set of songs i play. However, Lemonheads [...]

Apr 6th, 2008

Art?

My ISP has yet to block YouTube which must be the stupidest act that an ISP can do. So i would like to take this opportunity to post another cool video uploaded at YouTube. The video explain what is art from animal perspective. Art?

Apr 6th, 2008

Paul Raven RIP

I’m definetely the stupidest Prong fan in the world. I’ve just found out this morning that Raven, Prong’s bassist at CLEANSING era has of a suspected heart attack at age 46. That’s October 22nd 2007!! Before he became Prong’s bassist, Raven was a member of post-punk band Killing Joke, which was hero to Prong. Killing Joke [...]