Entries for January, 2008

Etalase mulus..

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

“bagiku jilbab adalah piagam kemenangan gilang gemilang, kemenangan bagi perempuan islam atas dirinya, atas imannya, dan atas dunia” - andrea hirata

hmm..ngomong-ngomong soal jilbab, saya ini belom ada apa-apanya dibanding kawan saya ini, yang studi tentang jilbabnya sudah melegenda di kalangan bloggers hehehe..

beberapa hari trakhir ini, saya disuguhkan pemandangan-pemandangan baru yang mungkin lagi trend diantara para kawula mudi jogja, yaitu hotpants dan tanktop yang jadi cara gaul yang cukup ampuh untuk menunjukkan bahwa “hey gw anak gaul neh!”

ceritanya pas kmren2 lagi sering2nya diajakin temen maen-maen ke Amplaz, ngecek pilem-pilem terbaru di 21, selama perjalanan dari underground (secara bermotor ya) sampe lantai 21 berada, duhh mata ini tak henti-hentinya dibelai oleh paha-paha mulus, leher-leher jenjang dan wangi parfum yang kadang bikin melayang..ampuunn DJ..!!

belom selesai di situ, saat ngantri tiket pun saya juga berhadapan dengan situasi sulit yang sama, kali ini dari view yang berbeda hehe.. namun sensasinya sama aja!!

dan saya mulai bertanya-tanya.. apa saya yang terlalu lama nggak ke Amplaz, atau emang yang model ginian yang lagi trend di Jogja?

Perasaan dulu orang-orang ini nggak seberani ini..yaa paling tidak walaupun tampil hot, cuman nggak yang kaya saya liat kemaren, seolah-olah Amplaz jadi etalase paha dan dada dan kadang juga ada garis bujur yang membentang di bawah punggung cewe-cewe yang hobi pake celana hipster P

Sedih? tentu saja tidak..senang bahkan ngeliatnya hehehe P

..cuman prihatin dan miris..

Prihatin dengan cara mereka menyikapi harga diri sebagai wanita, prihatin dengan sikap mereka yang justru mengundang pandangan nakal tertuju, prihatin dengan sosok yang terkesan murah itu..gaul? saya nggak ngerti parameter orang gaul tuh kaya apa..

jadi ya gitu kalo saya bilang..

,,hanya prihatin..saja..

padahal kalo mau melihat mereka yang berjilbab..duhh sungguh sejuk dan teduh..

dan misterius bukan?tak terumbarkan..jadi malahan bikin penasaran P

Long live jilbabers..!!!

Intro to IT labwork Final Grade

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

At around nine o’clock today, a sms went in to my handphone. It was from one of my student in Introduction to IT labwork course. Well, actually, i don’t even know his/her name. Gyahahahaha. Well, that’s not really important. He/She asked me what is his/her grade.

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Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom In A Book: Lesson 13 - Preparing Images for Two-Color Printing

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008


Not every commercially printed publication requires four-color reproduction. Printing in two colors using a grayscale image and spot color can be an effective and inexpensive alternative. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use Adobe Photoshop to prepare full-color images for two-color printing...

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Farewell, Jogja

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Well, I almost can’t say anything..

It’s just hard to say goodbye..

It’s just,, I’ll be missing you,, really…

Thank you for everything, Jogja..

Farewell…

Jogjakarta, 28 January 2008, my last post as jogja citizen

Hari Ini, Alhamdulillah…

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Hepi B-Dei Mas IWÃ¥NT

Selamat Jalan Pak Harto..!

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

suharto2.jpg“Telah berpulang ke Rahmatullah mantan Presiden Indonesia Haji Muhammad Soeharto meninggal pukul 13.10 WIB. Rencananya akan dibawa ke Cendana. Tapi belum tahu pukul berapa,” kata Kapolsek Kebayoran Kompol Diki Sondani di RSPP, Jl Kyai Maja, Jakarta, Minggu (27/1/2008).

Soeharto sebelumnya diberitakan kondisinya sangat-sangat kritis karena seluruh organnya sudah tidak berfungsi. Konfirmasi wafatnya Soeharto juga disampaikan oleh mantan Mensesneg Moerdiono.

dikutip dari Detik.Com

A Big Fan?

Saturday, January 26th, 2008
When I left the show, the fans were so amazing in terms of the outpouring of support and continued support all that time whatever ways they could be in touch with me. (Alice Barrett) Memang,.. Jogja kota kuliner terkreatif

happy day

Friday, January 25th, 2008
currently braindead. Nothing of interest comes to mind... at least none worth jotting down. I'll keep em up 'ere *points at forehead* where they'll be safe and sound.

Happy Friday the 25th of 2008's January! My first and my last... How was it? Hm... it was aight I guess. Done things, regret not doing some things, done stupid things, had to fix those stupid things I managed to do... same old same old. But nontheless.. it shan't be left forgotten. Nay... So just for the sake of dethroning my own thought up there... I'll jot down some random stuff I discovered and pondered about through the course of this lovely day.

I think cars made within the last 5 years are stupid and redundant. BLEGH! At least the ones commercialized like the whores they are. ROTFL. The car that made its way to my family household is part of this oh-so-special bunch condemned by me... but hell, it's all that's available at my disposal so... Whatever... I still despise it. blegh. Then again, it's just a friggin car. Get over it. Great... I've wasted a paragraph talking about floogin cars.

Hear ye, hear ye... extra extra! Cooking Oil prices are up again people! I dunno by how much.. I just know that they are. How do I know? It's part of my weekly chores... buying cooking oil to restock THE store. Yep... I drive up to this place that holds such a special place in my heart (right..) at least once a week to buy oil by the jugs. Sounds fun, does it not? Fo shizzle dizzle. Anyhoo... I just bring the money needed (since no haggling is required) and bring the little babies back home... no questions asked. But yep... prices are up! Same goes for flour and sugar... And the inflation isn't over yet... it'll keep its steady increase. Damn them, whoever they are. ^_^

I contemplated about who and how I am today... but I'll write about that at a later date. This cycle will always be continuous. I'm not too self-absorbant...

Current tune: Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by Frank Sinatra.

I can't get enough of Franky lately... *sigh* bye bye Murphy... (for now)

Kata Siapa Pernah Ngutang Di Kantin MILAN ?

Friday, January 25th, 2008
Wahh ini ada forum baru… yukk mari kita bergabung… Web Blog buat para blogger Ilkomp, komsi, dan rekmed… Yukk mari gabung…. Gak usah sungkan - sungkan, klik aja bannernya.. Baidewei, koq bannernya rada - rada memfitnah ya? hla tahu darimana tuh kita pernah ngutang di Kantin MILAN ? Hehheheee… Mari Gabung Yukkk……!

Web Hosting Gratis

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Alhamdulillah… 250MB | 100GB

Hari ini aku nemuin Web Hosting yang bener-bener gratis. Udah gethuw, fitur-fitunya komplit lagi.. Bayangin aja :

 - 250 MB of Disk Space
- 100 GB Bandwidth
- Your own domain hosting
- cPanel Control panel
- Over 500 website templates ready for (more…)

Iseng-iseng berhadiah

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

sudah sekitar 2 bulan ini saya part-time di mpBookPoint, diawali dari keisengan saya maen-maen kesana pas tokonya baru aja buka, abis itu ngbrol2 ma ownernya, eeeh ternyata nggak lama setelah itu saya mulai kerja disana

ngapain aja disana?

macem-macem, job desc-nya si simpel, cuman pada prakteknya nggak sesimpel teorinya, dari mulai menata buku, resensi buku, shelf-management mpe kadang-kadang juga setting jaringan mpe bersih-bersih toko

saya menyebutnya maen sambil belajar kerja, karena nggak segitunya buat bisa disebut kerja, gimana nggak?jam kerja yang fleksibel, kerjaan yang nyante, temen-temen ‘maen’ yang asik disana?what do you expect? emang siy baru kerasa kalo ngomongin masalah gaji..uhuhuhu cuma cukup buat beli pulsa ma nambah duit jajan yang nggak seberapa, tapi yah itung-itung maen sambil dapet duit

emang siy, kadang-kadang juga bisa hectic sendiri, apalagi kalo jaringannya lagi down, ato access point-nya rewel, ato yang paling sering ya pas hotspotnya lagi trouble, sering banget dah denger yang model ginian “mas, koq koneksinya putus yah? “mas, koq lambat nih?” dan “mas, mas, mas…aahh mas ganteng deh” hahahaha..tapi sekarang dah nggak sering koq, karena dah migrasi ke ISP yang lebih beres, kalo yang kmren ampun dah

enaknya saya bisa baca gratis disini, mulai dari novel murahan, buku kecil yang ngajarin tips-tips (yang kadang kebanyakan kbulnya daripada benernya hehehe) mpe majalah-majalah impor macam newsweek dan TIME, jadinya jelas, anggaran beli buku bulanan bisa diminimalisir hehehe..yang paling seru lagi klo pas lagi ada diskusi-diskusi, saresehan ato apa lah, bisa gratis ketemu orang-orang berkelas, bisa sharing dan ngobrol-ngobrol ma mereka..

anak-anak rumahkopi (kafe yang nempel ma Mp) juga asik-asik, ada yang cantik juga (ehem..ehem..) hehehe..kadang juga klo pas rame suka dapet kopi gratis, hehehe asik lah..

buku, bagi saya nggak sekedar kumpulan kertas doank, disitu ada ilmu, kehidupan, kisah, pokoknya banyak lah, salah banget klo orang nganggep bookworm itu pasti kuper dan nggak gaul, justru di tempat kaya MP ini saya ngebuktiin hal itu, gimana terpelajarnya mereka tanpa kehilangan temen-temen gaul dan trend yang ada, justru kadang, orang-orang yang sok gaul itu kebanyakan otak udang, boleh siy dompetnya tebel, tapi klo nggak punya wawasan, duhh betapa menyedihkannya..

balik ke MP, eniwei, saya enjoy banget dengan kerjaan ini, walaupun klo pas ujian juga jadwal jaga jadi sangat mengganggu, but justru disitu tantangannya, blom lagi ngadepin customer yang rese’, nanya ini-itu (plus sok tau) tapi ujung-ujungnya kagak beli, plus komplain ini-itu yang suka nggak masuk akal, yaah semuanya pada akhirnya harus diterima, dinikmati dan jadi ilmu dan pelajaran tambahan

oia, buat temen-temen yang blom tau MpBookPoint, tempatnya tuh di Jalan Kaliurang Km.6,3, setiap rabu malem ada Live Jazz and Acoustic, performernya seru-seru loh..yaah maen-maen ya kesini, dijamin seru

Come back after death

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Gosh, finally it’s up again. One year without any activity, is same with death for a blogger. But, afterall, I’m back… Mhwahwahwahwahwa

There is a lot of things that i’d like to share. But I’m too tired to write.. Well, I think I’ll just edit this post later. See ya..

Search Engine Optimization For Dummies

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008


Welcome to Search Engine Optimization For Dummies. What on earth would you want this book for? After all, can’t you just build a Web site, and then pay someone $25 to register the site with thousands of search engines? I’m sure you’ve seen the advertising: “We guarantee top-ten place­ment in a gazillion search engines!” “We’ll register you in 5,000 search engines today!”

Well, unfortunately, it’s not that simple. (Okay, fortunately for me, because if it were simple, Wiley Publishing wouldn’t pay me to write this book.) The fact is that search engine optimization is a little complicated. Not brain surgery com­plicated, but not as easy as “give us 50 bucks, and we’ll handle it for you.”...

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Lets Ride..!! [Jilid II]

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

New TIGER | OriginalAlhamdulillah..

STNK dan Plat Nomor (yang asli) dah turun, saatnya modifikasi. Hi..hi..hi. Ringan aja koq ndak sampai ngerubah wujud aslinya.

Intinya, Jiwa muda khan harus selalu ada meski sampe lansia nanti, biar senantiasa bisa tampil freshly.

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Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom In A Book: Lesson 12 - Creating Special Effects

Friday, January 18th, 2008


The huge assortment of filters available for Adobe Photoshop lets you transform ordinary images into extraordinarydigital artwork. You can select filters that simulate a traditional artistic medium—a watercolor, pastel, or sketched effect—or you can choose from filters that blur, bend, wrap, sharpen, or fragment images. In addition to using filters to alter images, you can use adjustment layers and painting modes to vary the look of your artwork.

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Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom In A Book: Lesson 11 - Advanced Layer Techniques

Friday, January 18th, 2008


After you’ve learned basic layer techniques, you can create more complex effects in your artwork using layer masks, path groups, filters, adjustment layers, and more style layers.

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I’m come back

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

tantos.web.id, blog kesayangan Anda semua kini telah kembali.

Mohon maaf atas ketidaknyamanan para penggemar,

Hal ini berkat bantuan dari AuNK dan temannya, aris (openweb crew). Tengkyu berat yo dab!

*sedang menulis kisah selanjutnya…

Mbok… tulisanku masuk koran, mbok…

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Yak, “i’ve got a little buzy”, that is probably the best reason for me (eh, bener gak sie tulisannya?? Bener kan? Ya kan, bener kan, ya dong, bener dong???). Itu juga kalo gak mau dibilang… aq males nulis, hehe…. Perjuangan emang kalo kita mau produktif, soalnya buat aq mending kita tidur siang daripada susah-susah mikirin [...]

Learn XML Easiest Way

Monday, January 14th, 2008


It's easy to get lost when talking about XML. It has grown into a huge topic, inspiring so many technologies and branching into new areas. Anywhere there is information, you'll find XML, or at least hear it scratching at the door. So priority number one is to get a broad view, ask the big questions, so that you can find your way through the dense jungle of standards and concepts.

There are a few questions that come to mind. What is XML? We will attack this from different angles. It's more than the next generation of HTML. It's a general-purpose information storage system. It's a markup language toolkit. It's an open standard. It's a collection of standards. It's a lot of things, as you'll see.

Where did it come from? It's good to have a historical perspective. You'll see how XML evolved out of preceding efforts like SGML, HTML, and the earliest presentational markup.

What can I do with XML? A practical question, again with several answers: store and retrieve data, ensure document integrity, format documents, and support many cultural localizations. And the following section answers the other question, what can't I do with XML? You need to know about the limitations, in case it isn't a good fit with your problem.

How do I get started? Without any hesitation, I hope. I'll describe the tools you need to get going with XML and test the examples in this book. From authoring, validating, checking well-formedness, transforming, formatting, and writing programs, you'll have a lot to play with.

So now, let us dive into the big questions. At the end, you should know enough to decide where to go from here. Future chapters will describe topics in more detail, such as core markup, quality control, style and presentation, programming interfaces, and internationalization...

4 Contents of this file:
Learning XML
XML Bible
The XML CD Bookshelf
XML Tutorial


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Resolusi 2008

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Resolusi, Wish List, Keinginan, Rencana, Perbaikan, apapun mau disebutnya, tetap saja ini merupakan suatu pekerjaan berat untuk menuliskannya, apa lagi membatasinya hanya menjadi 8 buah perkara saja, dan mempublikasikannya untuk menjadi konsumsi semua orang yang membuka blog ini. Tetapi, demi menjawab tantangan -lebih tepatnya kutukan- yang dengan sadisnya ditularkan oleh my brother over there, ya udah, Musti juga kuluangkan sedikit waktu untuk memulai menulis… Satu hal yang rasanya sudah lama nggak aku lakukan.

 

Oke, kita mulai saja dengan 8 hal yang direncanakan ‘harusnya’ dilakukan di tahun ini. sedikit terlambat mungkin, tapi mumpung masih di awal tahun, yah, maafkan saja.
Duh, lagi-lagi harus 8.

 

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11 Januari Uedan Tenan!

Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Tadi malem nonton konser GIGI, 11 Januari Peace Love and Respect. Udah lama gak nonton konser besar setelah Padi. Lama amat yah? hehehe… Dan akhirnya dimulai, walopun sebelumnya ada pihak yang gak terima GIGI konser karena bisa merusak stadionnya,.. so what? Agak molor dikit sih dari jadwal, sekitar jam 20.30 baru dimulai. Gila! Tanpa basa-basi [...]

blink - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Friday, January 11th, 2008


In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant...

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A Survival Guide for Working with Humans

Friday, January 11th, 2008


Today, with a sputtering economy, collapsing and merging companies, corporate scandals, high-tech upheavals, and growing global competition, life in the workplace is more difficult than ever. Trusting in business relationships has become more uncertain, too.

It helps to have guidelines on how to maneuver through today's unpredictable work environment, much like learning to swim through a narrow chasm in a swirling river.
That's what A Survival Guide for Working with Humans is all about. It started with a series of mostly weekly columns in the San Francisco Bay Area on the perils of the workplace and what to do about them. Eventually my editor had to drop the columns to run more advertising and specialty features, but as reader response grew I decided to expand on the idea for these columns and turn them into a book. In a sense, I decided to take my own advice: to find a way to turn a problem into an opportunity and look for ways to put a positive spin on whatever happens. Indeed the columns themselves were inspired after a long-term relationship with a difficult client went south, and my solution to the problem ended up as the topic of one of the first columns...

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A Beautiful Mind - John Nash

Friday, January 11th, 2008


Now A Major Motion Picture

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A BEAUTIFUL MIND
SYLVIA NASAR
The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

THE AWARD-WINNING BESTSELLER
How could you. A mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages""the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and 0fulympian manner. Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did.- came the answer. "So I took them seriously"...

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78 Important Questions Every Leader Should Ask and Answer

Friday, January 11th, 2008


Captain Jean-Luc Picard looked up from his log, checked the chronometer and decided that he had spent enough time in his ready room for one day. Time to get up and walk about a bit, get the feel of the ship under his feet. A crew had moods and the only way to find out what they are is to go out and tread the deck. Of course, he could just call in either Riker or Troi and put the question to them—How is the crew feeling?—and from their different perspectives form a clear and reliable picture. Over the years, Picard had learned that this method omitted an essential component. If he stayed in his ready room and waited for subordinates to bring him answers, the crew wouldn’t know how Picard was feeling, at least, how Picard wanted them to think he was feeling...

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Implementasi Mnemonic Pada Blogger Ilkom

Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Bukan!! Judul diatas bukan judul tugas akhir saya! Ini cerita konyol 3 blogger ilkom saat menghadapi ujian. Kemarin saya, tuwir, dan Yw! menghadapi ujian akhir matakuliah kurang mutu: Network Management. Sebenarnya kami gak satu kelas, tapi untuk matakuliah tersebut kami satu kelas. Type ujian kali ini: closed book. Gila! Ngafal nih! Memory ini ky nya [...]

1 Muharram 1429 H

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Met Tahun Baru Hijriah 1429

Muharram (?????) adalah bulan pertama dalam Sistem Takwim Hijrah (Hijriah). Pada asasnya, Muharram membawa maksud ‘diharamkan’ atau ‘dipantang’, iaitu Allah SWT melarang melakukan peperangan atau pertumpahan darah. Namun demikian larangan ini ditamatkan setelah pembukaan Makkah (Al Baqarah: 91).

Sejak pemansuhan itu, umat Islam boleh melaksanakan tugas dan ibadat harian tanpa (more…)

Dot ID Yang Tidak ID

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Logo Dot IDAlhamdulillah…

Indonesia (sepertinya) sudah cukup diramaikan dengan domain “Made in Indonesia” alias domain .id. Awalnya dulunya seh gratis, sempat juga aku menikmati gratisan ini. Dan sekarang sudah ada bandrol harganya, lupa juga entah mulai kapan mulainya.

Sekilas tengok judul coretan ini, makna judul sebenarnya bisa seperti ini : Domain Indonesia Yang Tidak Indonesia. Lha koq bisa…? Nggak tahu juga bahasan ini pernah nongol di internet apa belum. Sudah lama banget (more…)

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom In A Book: Lesson 10 - Vector Masks, Paths, and Shapes

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008


You can make simple illustrations using vector paths in Adobe Photoshop or Adobe ImageReady. Working with vectors allows you to create shapes, which can be filled or stroked, and use vector masks to control what is shown in an image. This lesson will introduce you to advanced uses of vector shapes and vector masks...

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