Entries for December, 2007

Bismillah.. Jelang 2008

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Jelang 2008Alhamdulillah…

Tinggal beberapa jam lagi sudah 2008.

Mari banyak doa dan renungan, semoga di tahun depan jauh lebih baik dari tahun ini. Yang merasa amalnya kurang di 2007 semoga menjadi lebih banyak amalnya dan ringan tangan dalam membantu sesama. Having FunOK..OK aja, tapi ingat desember ini banyak musibah. Seperti halnya akhir tahun - akhir tahun sebelumnya, bencana dimana-mana.

Semoga Indonesia akan menjadi lebih baik juga di tahun 2008. ….

Hiduplah Indonesia Raya….

Catatan Akhir Tahun

Monday, December 31st, 2007
… Kau terangkan gelap mataku Kau hilangkan resah hatiku Kau hidupkan lagi cintaku Yang telah beku dan membiru …Biru - Deddy Dhukun hello my princesses world,.. happy new year So mellow? Biarlah,…

Refleksi Diri

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Alhamdulillah…

Pernikahan Adikku, HeniNggak terasa sudah di penghujung tahun 2007. Udah ngapain aja yah ditahun ini… Macem-macem pokoké. Yang penting aku sudah sangat bersyukur ditahun ini bisa nge-bahagia-in bapak-ibu dan adik-adikku. Apa itu…?! Biar aku dan Yang Di Atas lah yang tahu.

Pernikahan adikku Heni dengan lelaki idamannya, Candra, menjadi (more…)

New Weapon..

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Alhamdulillah…

KODAK C713Seneng banget bisa nyalurin cita-cita pas jaman eS-eM-A dulu. Pingin bisa jadi photographer motret apapun dan dimanapun. Masalah’e pas masih aktifis OSIS en Pramuka, paling sering diberikan mandat dipercaya jadi Seksi Dokumentasi. Tidak sedikit yang cukup bangga hasil jepretan-ku. Waktu itu pake’ KODAK (lupa serinya) yang masih pake Rol Pilem dengan Zoom sampe (more…)

Racun Mas Timi

Friday, December 28th, 2007
Mas Timi telah meracuni saya tentang fotografi, dimulai dari liat-liat poto hasil jepretan mas timi lalu dia memberi link www.fotografer.net sehingga saya melihat poto-poto orang lain yang luar biasa kerennya. Kemudian, mas timi bertanya “Yoan mau belajar fotografi?”, dan saya mengangguk-angguk semangat. Mas Timi meminjamkan kameranya, saya pun memegangnya dengan sangat hati-hati (barang mahal, punya [...]

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom In A Book: Lesson 8 - Painting and Editing

Friday, December 28th, 2007


The Adobe Photoshop 7.0 painting engine is so sophisticated and powerful that the possibilities for using it are virtually unlimited. This lesson gives you just a taste of the many techniques and approaches you can use in your work...

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Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom In A Book: Lesson 7 - Retouching and Repairing

Thursday, December 27th, 2007


New features in Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and ImageReady 7.0 build on the success of the clone tool to make retouching photographs even easier and more intuitive. Thanks to the underlying technology supporting these new features, even touchups of the human face appear so lifelike and natural that it is difficult to detect that the photograph has been altered.

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Rapikan Berkas!

Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Ternyata penting juga yah mikirin sistem atribusi pada suatu berkas. Pernahkah kita (saya juga terutama) membuat suatu berkas dimulai dengan membuat nama file dan diletakkan pada direktori tertentu, kemudian mulai mengisi atribut berkas dan baru menulis isi berkas. Repot? memang! Tapi beginilah hasilnya kalau atribut berkas empitri gak diperbaiki: click for enlarge Memang, saya juga termasuk termasuk pembajak [...]

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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
Dari ocehan-ocehan blogger Jogja pas ketemu sang dewi malam. Jadi tambah semangat untuk migrasi ke kaum borjuis Pencarianpun dimulai, dan hasilnya: whatttt???

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom In A Book: Lesson 6 - Masks and Channels

Monday, December 24th, 2007


Adobe Photoshop uses masks to isolate and manipulate specific parts of an image. A mask is like a stencil. The cutout portion of the mask can be altered, but the area surrounding the cutout is protected from change. You can create a temporary mask for one-time use, or you can save masks for repeated use...

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Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom In A Book: Lesson 5 - Layer Basics

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007


Both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe ImageReady let you isolate different parts of an image on layers. Each layer can then be edited as discrete artwork, allowing unlimited flexibility in composing and revising an image...

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Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom In A Book: Lesson 4 - Working with Selections

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007


Learning how to select areas of an image is of primary importance— you must first select what you want to affect. Once you’ve made a selection, only the area within the selection can be edited. Areas outside the selection are protected from change...

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Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom In A Book: Lesson 3 - Basic Photo Corrections

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007


Adobe Photoshop and Adobe ImageReady include a variety of tools and commands for improving the quality of a photographic image. This lesson steps you through the process of acquiring, resizing, and retouching a photo intended for a print layout. The same workflow applies to Web images...

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Buah hasil dari ke-”tidak bisa tidur”-an

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Argh... aku harus tidur. Tetep aja, g bisa tidur. Tidur: susah untuk dimulai dan susah untuk diakhiri. Sungguh menyebalkan.

Wakakaka... aku ingin mencoba menulis sesuatu dengan bahasa Indonesia. Bahasa yang aku paling tidak kuasai diatara 3 bahasa yang aku kuasai. Otakku tak berpikir dengan bahasa ini... harap maklum. Tapi guru Bahasa Cinaku waktu SMP (aku pernah ambil kelas bahasa cina selama satu cawu) pernah berkata, "You know you've mastered a language when you dream in that language" --> "Kau tahu kau menguasai sebuah bahasa jikalau kau bermimpi dalam bahasa itu." Dengan referesi itu (aku kadangkala bermimpi dengan bahasa ini) aku anggap aku bisa aja lah ya... tapi tetep aja... aneh terasa...

Nyambung masukan post sebelumnya... aku lagi kecanduan Dropkick Murphys saat ini. Lagu2 yang, jikalau kau dengarkan musiknya, bikin goyang (halah). Tapi, jika didengarkan lirik2nya, didalamnya terdapat cerita-cerita yang bikin depresi tapi dengan pesan yang lumayan berarti. (duh, bahasa indonesia membuat tulisanku sangat janggal dan aneh... -red). Favoritku saat ini lagu DKM berjudul "The Green Fields of France". Nggak bikin "goyang" sih, tapi liriknya bagus dan Oomnya yang nyanyi suaranya apik ^_^. Mari kita simak sejenak satu verse dari lagu itu:

oh how do you do, young willy mcbride
do you mind if i sit here down by your graveside
and rest for a while in the warm summer sun
i've been walking all day, and im nearly done
and i see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
when you joined the great fallen in 1916
well i hope you died quick and i hope you died clean
oh willy mcbride, was is it slow and obscene

Bagus, bukan? huehue. Paling tidak banyak yang setuju denganku. Tapi tak apa lah, hanya ingin berbagi kesenangan. (?)

Duh, udah ah. Geli lama2 membaca/menulis menggunakan ni bahasa.

Argh! masih belum bisa tidur. Paling2 tar aku tidur di mobil, sembari mendengarkan lagu ini. Tar jam 5 aku (bersama bapakku) akan beranjak ke Salatiga, menuju "kampung halaman" yang tidak pernah aku anggap kampung halaman.

Sampai jumpa!

Wowie…

Friday, December 21st, 2007
Here I sit, staring at my laptop, listening to the yummy goodness that is Dropkick Murphys. Then, all of a sudden, a blog is born! *gasp* Why, you ask? I dunno, I guess I just felt like making one. Or maybe, it's my further giving in to my deepening need to conform. Nah, that can't be it. Meh, whatever.
So... I gots me a blog. Now what? *shrugs* Endless fields of nothingness lay before me. Here I am, picking my brain for something to write about, only to find that all the picking are done in vain. *sigh* My brain is one cluttered mess. Access denied.

I am Alfina's inflamed sense of rejection. ^_^'
O well, better luck next time. Long drive tomorrow anyhow, need to get me some shut eye.

This is my life and it's ending one minute at a time.
Props to Chuck!

Huzzah!

Adobe After Effects® 7.0: Classroom in a Book

Thursday, December 20th, 2007


The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects 7!

Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does--an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Adobe After Effects 7.0 Classroom in a Book contains eleven lessons and a bonus DVD with lesson files. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe After Effects, and countless tips and techniques to help you quickly become an After Effects artist. You'll get thorough training in digital video effects and production as well as learn about After Effects 7.0's new features, including motion tracking, powerful animation and keyframing controls, HDR color support, network rendering, and more. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you...

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Lebaran Bersama Pak Amien Rais

Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Labbaik Allahumma labbaik, labbaika lasyarikalaka labbaik. Innal hamda wanni’mata laka walmuka. Lasyarikalak Apa kabar Abi di sana? Semoga baik selalu dan diberikan Alloh kekuatan untuk menunaikan tugas mulia. Semoga tidak seperti tahun lalu ayahanda harus diuji dengan menahan lapar dan rasa yang amat capek setelah menjadi koki dadakan di maktab.

Allahu Akbar…

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Allahu Akbar… Allahu Akbar….

Met Idul Adha

Indahnya Kebersamaan dan Saling Berbagi

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom In A Book: Lesson 2 - Using the File Browser

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007


You can use the new File Browser as a time-saver for many tasks, including creating new folders, renaming files, moving files, and deleting them from your hard disk. But the unique power of the File Browser is its ability to display thumbnails and metadata for unopened files, making it extremely easy to find and open just the files you need. You can even rotate images in the File Browser...

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Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom In A Book: Lesson 1 - Getting to Know the Work Area

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007


As you work with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe ImageReady, you’ll discover that there is often more than one way to accomplish the same task. To make the best use of the extensive editing capabilities in these programs, you first must learn to navigate the work area...

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Access 2002 Bible

Monday, December 17th, 2007


Essentially, Access is a database management system (DBMS). Like other products in this category, Access stores and retrieves information (often referred as a data), presents requested information, and automates repetitive tasks (such as maintaining accounts payable or a personnel system, and performing inventory control and scheduling. With Access you can create easy-to-use input forms like the one shown in Figure 1-1. You can display your information ini any way that you want and run powerful reports...

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50 essential Excel tips

Monday, December 17th, 2007


Your users can save a lot of time and effort working with Excel if they know a few tricks and shortcuts. These valuable tips originally appeared in our Excel e-newsletter, which has now been beefed up to include productivity tips for the entire Microsoft Office suite...

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Building an Intranet with Windows NT 4

Monday, December 17th, 2007


Author: Scott Zimmerman and Tim Evans

I'd like to begin each chapter with a brief overview of what's ahead. These lists might help you determine whether you would like to skim through any material that you are already familiar with.

By now it's hard to imagine how anyone can have missed learning at least something about the World Wide Web and the Internet. Mass-circulation newspapers and magazines and broadcast media feature the Internet regularly. You often see Web page addresses (known as Uniform Resource Locators, or URLs) in television commercials and printed advertisements. The story of the meteoric rise of Netscape Communications Corporation on the stock market jumped from the financial page to the front page. Universities, businesses, and other organizations have rushed to "get on the Web," while entrepreneurs have moved equally quickly to take advantage of this rush by setting up shop on the shoulders of the Information Superhighway, hawking everything from Internet connections to Web-page authoring to Web-related conferences...

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Accounting for Managers

Friday, December 14th, 2007


William H. Webster, CPA

Accounting knowledge is a core business skill that both complements and enhances your other talents. Individuals promoted to management or supervisory roles from either line or staff jobs find that many of their new responsibilities involve knowing something about accounting. Congratulations on your promotion! You’ve come to the right place to start developing those accounting skills. If you haven’t had a recent promotion, more congratulations are in order. You are taking steps to gain the skills that will lead to promotion in the near future.

Your new duties could involve record keeping or report preparation and forwarding the results to the appropriate department. You might also be involved in preparing or analyzing departmental budgets. Maybe you are in sales and have questions about why there isn’t more money for travel. Perhaps your company has a profit-sharing plan and you’re suddenly intensely interested in how profits are calculated. You could be working in a smaller business where you now have full responsibility for the production function and have to decide where and how to spend the money. Any of these events could trigger your awareness that you need to know something about accounting and how money works in an organization...

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3,001 Business & Sales Letters

Friday, December 14th, 2007


Copyright (C) 1996-2003. WriteExpress Corporation
All Rights Reserved.
Revision 7/12/2003

Table of Contents
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1. Manual Installation for Microsoft Word
2. How to Uninstall WriteExpress 3,001 Business & Sales Letters
3. How to use 3,001 Business & Sales Letters
4. Topic Overview
5. About Find
6. WriteExpress Rhymer and Phonetic Finder Product Descriptions

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AutoCAD 2002 Bible

Thursday, December 13th, 2007


At Autodesk we prefer to think of more than just software, but rather the whole environment of an AutoCAD 2002 user. The AutoCAD 2002 Bible should be part of every user’s immediate environment. Work with it. Refer to it each time you have a question. Use it to augment the digital learning resources that come with AutoCAD 2002: AutoCAD Learning Assistance, AutoCAD Today, the Help system, and the online resources of Autodesk Point A, which is seamlessly integrated into AutoCAD 2002. Keep the AutoCAD 2002 Bible handy and browse through it whenever you need a break or have some spare time. You’ll discover myriad capabilities to AutoCAD 2002 you probably weren’t aware even existed. You’ll learn new and better ways to accomplish tasks, and continuously improve your overall performance using AutoCAD 2002.

Wayne Hodgins
Strategic Futurist
Director, Worldwide Learning Strategies
Autodesk, Inc.

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Menikmati 9 jam terakhir di 22 tahun

Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Wuahhhhhaaaaaa,,,,,,………. Gak tahu mau nulis apa ? Gak terasa….., udah hampir setahun lagi aku bertemu dengan tanggal 14 di bulan ini, tanggal yang menandakan aku bertambah tua.. Wuhaahhhhhaaaaa…….. Aku bertambah tua ? AKU BERTAMBAH TUA ? WHuaaaaaaa……

Aku dan Dirimu

Friday, December 7th, 2007
tiba saatnya kita saling bicara tentang perasaan yang kian menyiksa tentang rindu yang menggebu tentang cinta yang tak terungkap sudah terlalu lama kita berdiam tenggelam dalam gelisah yang tak teredam demi.. memenuhi.. mimpi - mimpi malam kita duhai cintaku sayangku lepaskanlah… perasaanmu rindumu sluruh cintamu dan kini hanya ada aku dan dirimu sesaat di keabadian jika semua waktu bisa kita hentikan dan sgala mimpi - mimpi jadi kenyataan melebur semua [...]

Nice Words

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Hidup tu emang gag bisa ditebak ya. Paling nggak itu yang terjadi dalam hidup gw belakangan ini. Banyak banget hal-hal yang sangat insidental, bahkan saat gw mencoba melambatkan sedikit ritme hidup gw, kayaknya banyak banget hal yang udah berlalu. Contohnya, klo flash back ke beberapa bulan yang lalu, di blog gw semuanya cuma berisi dengan segala hal yang berbau-bau orang lagi jatuh cinta. Membahas orang yang sama, memuji orang yang sama, berharap akan hal yang sama,, Hhhmm,,, And there it goes,,, semua berlalu gitu aja.
Klo dipikir ya, manusia itu lemah banget dengan satu hal yang namanya cinta. Bener kan? Banyak banget masalah yang berhubungan dengan cinta. Walaupun kisahnya beda-beda, tapi tetep aja temanya sama : CINTA. Gw sendiri akhirnya membuat berbagai pembelaan untuk menyelamatkan image gw di mata dunia gara-gara masalah cinta yang belakangan ini menyatroni dengan amat hebatnya. ^HOHO,, kata2 yang berat bukan..^
Sampai akhirnya, gw jadi punya pikiran, qta ni sebenernya kurang kerjaan juga ya, ngeladenin yang namanya cinta. Mau aja dikerjain sama yang namanya cinta. Dan walaupun sadar lagi dikerjain sama cinta, tetep aja gag mau ngaku, sampai akhirnya kalau kita kalah, lagi2 cinta yang disalahin. Iya khan,,, Pasti iya deh jawabannya! Soalnya gw juga dengan sangat berat hati harus mengakui klo gw adalah satu dari manusia korban cinta,, HUAAA,,HUUUAAAA,,,
Ehh,,ee,,, tapi jangan salah sodara-sodara, walaupun saia juga jadi korbannya mas cinta, saia patut berbangga hati karena tidak harus berlama-lama meratapi nasib, kenapa selalu dikerjain cinta. Dan yahh, itu tadi, akhirnya gw berhasil sampai ke satu titik, -dimana kalo orang bertapa tu biasanya dibilang udah dapet wangsit- yang menganggap bahwa cinta itu bukanlah suatu masalah besar. Masalah yang bikin sebagian orang jadi mogok makan, sebagian lagi nganggep klo dah kalah sama cinta dunia juga bakalan kiamat jadi akhirnya dia mau say gudbay duluan sama dunia.. Oh no,, Come on guys, this is just a game! And U don’t have to take too much worry about that!
Klo emang gag bisa dapet cowok yang gw sayang, ya anggep aja lagi apes. Klo dapet ya syukur Alhamdulillah. Selesai kan masalahnya!
Hehe,, mungkin, orang bakal nganggep gw ini orang yang munafik, sok kuat, ataw apalah. Tapi emang bener koq, kalian harus yakin dan percaya bahwa saia memang udah dapet wangsit itu!!!!
Niscaya kalian adalah orang-orang yang beruntung,, ^Di ambil dari AL-AULIA…^
Well, emang sih, masalahnya gag seenteng itu. Tapi klau qta udah bisa berpikiran kayak gitu, paling ngga qta gag perlu kehilangan banyak waktu untuk meratapi nasib, yang tetep aja gag akan berubah. Jujur aja, kemarin gw dapet kekalahan yang teramat sangat telak waktu gw nyoba2 bermain dengan cinta. Kalau diandaikan main judi, gw udah hampir kehabisan semua kekayaan gw gara2 satu game, karena kebodohan gw sendiri. Untungnya, ^ini dia ciri khas orang Indonesia, walau udah kalah tetep aja ada untungnya^ gw dikasih wangsit yang bikin gw cepet sadar klo ini tu cuma bagian dari sebuah permainan dan gw masih punya banyak modal untuk kembali mencoba bermain. Klo emang gw gag bisa main judi, ya udahlah, sekarang gw pake modal gw untuk main yang lain. Dan akhirnya,, sekarang gw bisa mengucap syukur karena sepertinya, saia sudah mulai dapat mengikuti ritme permainan yang baru saja 6 bulan ini saya jalani. I really enjoy this game. And I know that I have many chance to win this game.
So guys, kenapa juga mesti pusing mikirin yang namanya cinta! Jalanin aja kayak kita ngejalanin hidup kita seperti biasa. Masih banyak banget hal yang harus kita beri perhatian lebih selain masalah cinta.
Itu gw loh,, dan itulah paham yang saat ini gw anut. ”Hidup itu jadi lebih berharga karena adanya cinta, tapi bukan berarti cinta adalah satu-satunya harga dalam hidup. Hidup jadi berwarna karena cinta, tapi bukan berarti cinta satu-satunya warna dalam hidup..”
^It’s a really nice words isn’t it!^