I’ve found that my USB external hard disk (2.5 inch) doesn’t work on Powerbook G4. This is because Powerbook actually conforms to USB standard, and only provide 500 mA power to each of its 2 USB port. This, unfortunately, is not enough to power-up the hard disk.

A solution is to buy a powered USB hub; plug it to the Powerbook. Then plug the USB hard disk to the hub.

Another solution is possible though if you have a USB Y-cable. A Y-cable is a USB cable where one end has 2 connectors.
Basically, you plug the end with one connector to the hard disk, and then plug each of the other 2 connectors to Powerbook’s 2 USB port.

I furthered the hack by plugging one of the connector (because it’s not long enough to reach the Powerbook’s other USB port) to an unpowered USB hub, then I plug that hub to the other Powerbook’s USB port.

Since 2 USB port x 500 mA = 1000 mA, now it has enough power for the 2.5 hard disk.

I haven’t tried this trick with standard (3.5 inch) hard drive though.
You may have to use the powered USB hub, or, use the Y-cable and plug one of its connector to a desktop computer. Most desktop computers’ USB ports nowadays have enough juice to power even things that wasn’t supposed to be plugged there (USB-powered fan anyone?)

Anyway, HTH.

If you’re having problems connecting to the Internet via your mobile phone’s GPRS / 3G connection with “LCP Terminated” error, I think it’s fairly safe to say that you need to put a line like this in your modem’s configuration file :

On Mac :
write “AT+CGDCONT=1,\34IP\34,\34www.xlgprs.net\34,\34\34,0,0\13″

On Linux/Windows :
AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”www.xlgprs.net”,”",0,0

I’m quite sure because my Internet access in my Powerbook suddenly stopped. I kept on getting “LCP Terminated” error message in the PPP’s logfile. I messed around with almost all the settings to no avail - when I realized that the line above is disabled in the config file (doh).
Enabled it, and I got connected straight away…

The most complete APN list is here.
Let me know if you managed to find a better one.

Hope it helps someone.

keywords: ppp terminated error pap ms-dns

I’m happily using my Nokia E70 for quite some time now. However, as an ex-user of two Nokia Communicators, I couldn’t help yesterday but wonder if Nokia will release a better version of its Communicator series.

Voila - then I found the news that Nokia E90 has been launched !

The Nokia Communicator series has been notorious for being slow and missing common high-end features, and a few other ugliness. I was so pleasantly surprised that E90 will be the first Communicator that won’t be so. Check it out :

• Slow ? Nope, E90 uses the same processor as N95 & N800, and very speedy ! It’s able to do fullscreen video playback smoothly.
• Weak / cheap feel ? E90 now sport strong hinges, and feels solid overall.
• Internal memory ? 128 MB overall, usually leaving 80MB free. This is one problem on E70 - turned out it has small internal memory, so sometimes it’s not able to run more that a few apps simultaneously. No such problem with E90.
• Connectivity ? it’s worthy of its name - Quadband GSM, bluetooth 2 w/ A2DP support, WiFi, USB 2, GPRS, EGDE, UMTS (3G), HSDPA (3.5G). Very, very nice indeed. No fax though, but you can workaround this for example by subscribing to Internet-based fax service.
• Camera ? no more weak VGA cam - it’s now a 3.2 MB camera with LED flash plus an internal cam for video calls !
• Other features ? GPS - finally ! Stereo speakers, 3D, FM radio, now also vibrates (!), updateable firmware via Internet, etc.

E90 is what 9500 should have been. Now it has all the important features, and then some. Very well done Nokia. When I got this, it may very well cause my laptop to gather dust at home.

Looking forward to its launch in Indonesia.

To be honest, I never expected to find an Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) application, yet here it is; Pentaho. Amazing.

It encompasses almost the whole spectrum of Business Intelligence concept; Reporting, Analysis, Data Mining, the BI platform, Dashboards/Management tools, and Workflow.

Good stuff. Now I know what to answer when my customers are asking me for an open BI solution.
Well done!

(source: Reuter)

Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, has been hit by some of the worst flood in years. Some areas are said to be submerged 4 meters under water. About 200,000 thousands are currently homeless, with 20 found dead; and the numbers are rising.

The rain has finally stopped after pouring in for days, giving chance for rescue workers to evacuate people faster. This is in anticipation of more rain.

“Jakarta is geographically not qualified to be the capital city, but this is the reality,” Sutiyoso, Jakarta’s governor, said in an interview on Metro TV. “We can’t afford to move the capital city somewhere else.”
Sutiyoso blamed deforestation south of Jakarta, which obliterated the water catchment area. However, when the rain fell just in Jakarta alone, it still floods. Sutiyoso was under heavy fire when similar flood happened five years ago, and the flood this time proved that he hasn’t accomplish anything to stop it from happening again.

There was plan to build a new flood canal on 1970, in addition to the current one built by the Dutch on 1930; but it was never completed. Talks are starting again now to restart the project. It’s estimated that it will cost around $440 million.

People are concerned that the flood will bring new outbreak. With dengue fever already in rise, additional outbreaks will seriously burden already overloaded medical facilities.

Parts of Jakarta has experienced various loss of services - electricity, clean water, telephone & mobile phone service, etc. The flood is so bad it reached places which never experienced it before.
Internet access also has been affected, with Telkom (one of the biggest Internet Service Provider) Internet giving out sluggish performance. Telkom’s datacenter, which hosts the Indonesian President’s website, was also affected when the electricity went out and the generators can’t be started because it’s put in the basement, which was already submerged under water.

Below is list of important contact details / source of information, courtesy of Indonesia News Blog :

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Just arrived in Jakarta, loads of things to write about in this blog. But it will have to wait a bit, right now I’d like to write a little about my quest for a new laptop.

I’m looking to replace my old laptop. It was fine for my needs - composing documents, presentation, *nix server access. However, lately it has slowed down so much, it’s barely usable. At first I suspected spyware/virus, but found nothing. After much tweaking, it’s a bit better. However, it’s started to look worn-out (lesson: don’t buy laptop which case is painted). So I decided to look for a new one.

Here’s my requirements :

1. Just Works : Nowadays most laptop is alright in regard to this requirement. You can start working with it right away. However, some are still problematic and/or even buggy. I’d rather avoid those.
2. Looks good: Very important, since this will be the machine used to do presentation to clients
3. Powerful: I’d like to upgrade only after 3 years or more. Upgrading is a time-consuming process, so I’d prefer to avoid it if possible.
4. Won’t get scratched / worn out easily: I took care of my old laptop, yet it still got scratched somehow. Also the wrist pad looks very worn out. I think these happened easily because its case is painted. Otherwise, the case would be more resistant to wear and tear.
5. Size: it will have to be less than 15 inch. 15 inch is maximum really. 17 inch is really nice for work with loads of documents in the same time, but since I’m mobile, it’s quite a bother to haul and use in any places. Also these big laptops tend to feel more fragile.
6. Safe : I would very much prefer my laptop not to explode, cause fire which destroy my house, or damage my skin.
7. Have a decent battery life: This may not be achievable though, since my definition of decent is something like 5-6 hours of heavy use. Instead, I may just buy an extra battery for it.
8. The important features: bluetooth, wifi, etc.
9. Weight: Hauling a heavy laptop all over the place is not really my idea of working-out. However, if it fulfill all the requirements above, I may reconsider.

At the moment I got a very lovely Apple Aluminium 15″ PowerBook G4 on my hands. A friend of mine allowed me to try it first before decding whether to buy it or not. Only 1 inch thick, if looks could kill then this would be it.
Despite already out in the market for years, it doesn’t have many flaws. It’s quite speedy, and fulfill all the requirements above close to my satisfaction. I’m yet to find non-Apple laptop which do so.

The only problem at the moment is its power adaptor - it’s the second, and it already broke down again (!)
After looking around, it seems that the adaptor is of very poor quality; bad, bad Apple.
I’m going to purchase a new one from here, and will let you know how it goes.

So then I looked on MacBook Pro, even offered a very good deal by my friend.
However, I found out its many possible problems, and hesitated.
Don’t get me wrong, I do know it’s only a possibility. I know a lot of my friends who have MacBook Pro and happy with it (or, have problems, but still happy with it). However, I’d rather avoid problems if possible.

OK, it’s back to square two - I’ve found a possible candidate (PowerBook G4), but I wonder if there’s something better than it. Ideas ?

Tips: a few ideas for your laptop:

1. If you’re looking to buy a MacBook, here’s an excellent discussion loaded with tips and insights.

2. I asked my friend how to protect MacBook / PowerBook / laptop’s casing. I found the answer [ here ] and [ here ]. No more scratches!

3. And here’s how you can protect the LCD screen.

4. Dust kept on sticking to my laptop screen, and it’s really annoying. I wonder if this product may help.

Visiting my parents a few days ago, I happen to watch an expert being interviewed on how to maximize our brain potentials. In short, according to their research, the brain perform best on 3B - Bed, Bathroom, and Bus. How come ?

Basically, those places are where we stop, and gave the brain time to reflect and analyze the data gathered so far (instead of busy doing everything else).

The Bed

You may have heard the saying “just sleep on the problem” — there’s truth to it. Even Michaelangelo used to sleep while he was working on his painting (if only we can do that in our cubicles..). Being on the bed / sleeping forces our brain to stop doing anything. Therefore, it’ll instead use this opportunity to do data analysis. It ended up as dreams sometimes. But after we woke up, many times we’ll have better understanding (and potential solution) to the problem.

A bit of deviation from the topic - praying have same (if not better) effect; especially since it takes very little time (10 - 15 minutes). When we pray, we’re forced to forget about our businesses, and focus only on a single point. This gives us clarity on that moment.
My friend once said (rather jokingly, but also seriously) that if you want to find the stuff that you’re missing - then pray. You’ll remember where you left it when you’re praying.

The Bathroom

My wife used to complain that I took so much time to bath. Well, beside the fact that I like things clean, it’s also my experience that I tend to get the best ideas when I was in the bathroom. Other variations might be the spa, sauna, etc.
It’s for the same reason as the Bedroom, in the bathroom we’re relaxed and thus able to think more clearly. Forcing your brain to be in overdrive all day long is not really healthy. The 3B give us breaks from it.

Nowadays she no longer complain about it. But I also try to avoid using the bathroom on “peak-hours”

The Bus

Basically just another place where you are relaxed and can think about things more clearly. While on the bus (or subway, train, whatever), you’re only standing up / sitting down, and doing very little else. Thus you’ll also tend to have the “eureka!” moments here.

So, how about you ?

Right, I must admit that I was pretty amazed to find a woman in a polygynous marriage and a convert and lives in USA (where polygyny / polygamy is outlawed - CMIIW) and happily blogging about it .
Was speechless for quite sometime.

Anyway, the blogger that goes by nickname Mizazeez (Miss Aziz ?) seems to be quite happy with her current situation. She was devastated when first knew about her husband’s intention to marry again, but then chose logic instead of uncontrolled emotion, and managed to get over it.
She even took time to explain the popular hadith touted as the base to abhore polygamy : the Ali - Fatima - Abu Jahl’s daughter hadith; where the hadith was usually presented as it is, she explained its context in details.

There are quite a lot of lighthearted and funny posts in her blog. For example, the one about her mother is quite funny. I do realize though that it’s a struggle to her. But she seems to handling it quite well, well done.

There are a few things we, men, can pick up from the husband. It seems that this man actually speaks Venusian; being able to act appropriately (instead of enraged/becoming a jerk) even when in awkward situations. Lots of other good examples from him throughout the blog. Recommended read.

All in all, both parties (husband and wife) seems to be putting their best efforts to make things works for them. I’m truly humbled to read how their marriage went - the humble & pious husband that’s gentle and care, the loving & (very) clever wife that’s very understanding about her husband’s situation (financial/time/marriage-wise).
That’s what marriage is all about - teamwork, co operation. It’s going both ways. If it started flowing just from one direction, then it’s the beginning of its end.

I’m very glad to find such mature and understanding Muslim/Muslimah, in the blogosphere too. To these people I put my hope that one day in my life I’ll be able to witness Islam achieving its purpose - rahmatan lil ‘alamin; a blessing to the world. Here’s one hoping.

Another similar blog : Polygynous Expressions

And no, I still don’t think I’ll marry another woman, because I’m not able to properly do the related responsibilities. But I’m happy for everyone who’s doing good and not afraid to be bad-mouthed because of it. Barokallahulakum, brothers and sisters.

After the news was first broken about Reza, the first known death related to WWF Smackdown in Indonesia, reports started to pour in about similar incidents.

Kiki, a little boy living in Ciputat, Jakarta city, died on 17th November 2006 after treated for 3 days in Bakti Husada hospital. The exact age of the boy is not known, but he looked like a 4 years old. The body was buried in his parent’s village, Balung Pendowo, Central Java.

Kiki’s uncle, Wahyu (32), on Monday (27/11) said that before Kiki died, he complained about chest and arm pain to him. “He confessed to be having Smackdown-ed by his friends”, he said.

To date there have been 9 recorded incidents, involving deaths, severe head injuries, broken bones, etc.

Pipit reported from Bandung that WWF Smackdown continued to be aired, with the schedule put back 1 hour. There are still problems with the show; the disclaimer (”don’t try this at home”) is not visible. And its presented in a way that’s not clear, compared to the following glorification of violence.

A few details on the victims so far :

1. Reza Iksan Fadillah (9), died in Bandung
2. Ahmad Firdaus (8), year 4 student in Margacinta; suffered from broken bone, and inflammation of his vital organ.
3. Raja (8), year 3 student, Kiara Condong; broken feet, broken back bone.
4. Angga (7), year 2 student, Kiara Condong; head injury, broken arm bone.
5. Sabila (7), Margacinta; broken foot and arm bones.
6. Kiki, Ciputat; died on 17 Nov 2006 after hospitalized for 3 days.
7. Maryunani (9), year 3 student, Yogyakarta; hospitalized in Wates hospital.

References: [ 1 ] - [ 2 ]

I just read a posting on Shirin Ebadi (thanks mas Fatih).

Very interesting. Not everyday you found somebody who’s able to realize and criticize the rigid interpretation and implementation of certain Islamic laws without slipping into becoming an extreme liberal.

Shirin seems to be a rarity, a voice of reason among the chaos. While others are either going to the extreme of interpreting Islam literally, or interpreting Islam so liberally it’s no longer Islam; Shirin manages to steadily and bravely walk on the middle path.
She even dared to criticize Israel in her Nobel prize speech.

Among many things, she got it right when she said that Islam can be interpreted quite differently, depending on who/how/where/when it was interpreted.
Different culture interpreted Islam differently; example, forced marriage is usual in certain Middle East countries, while it’s incompatible with Minangkabau’s matrilineal culture.
Another culture put great emphasis on inbreeding, which while halal, can be harmful (or even fatal) for the 3rd or 4th generation.

Another example; currently women are not honored in various cultures as they have had. They’re looked down if dared talking to a man. It’s in stark contrast with the beginning of Islam; Imam Syafie’s guru was a woman. And Aisyah ra (prophet’s wife) was a guru for many companions.
Some feminist went overboard when faced with these though - instead of reverting back to the original Islamic practices, they aimed to destroy Islam itself instead.

Extremism is never a good thing, and it’s against Prophet Muhammad’s teaching as well. It’s good to find another muslim(ah) with his/her vision set firmly on the original Islamic values. Hopefully more and more will show up.

If I’m wrong on my comments about her though, please feel free to correct me. Thanks.

Bali has been quite devastated, physically and, also importantly, economically, by the bomb blasts. Tourists are, understandably, avoiding Bali. People there ended up suffering because less tourists means less income.

To help the people there to recover, the government has worked with other parties to bring Bali back to its previous situation. One of the result is bali.my-indonesia.info, a website designed to introduce Bali again to the international audience.

Help spread the word and make a buzz, post it in YOUR blog. It’s easy to do, yet is most helpful to the Balinese.

Better yet, you can also win one of the 4 diamond pendants. Simply by emailing your friends about the website, and Cc-ing that email to contest@my-indonesia.info

What are you waiting for ? Do the blog and send that email now !

Restu, Iyo, and Li are three middle school students who loves watching the populer WWF Smackdown TV shows. In this show, wrestlers glorifies violence in various cool fighting moves. Although the shows are violent, the wrestlers always ended up safe and sound with no injury.

It’s because it’s all just tricks indeed. But when you’re watching the show that you don’t understand the language, and there’s no clear disclaimer/clarification — and you’re just 3 middle-school kids; then it’s real easy to be fooled into thinking that it’s all real. And thinking that you can do it too, and also walk away with no injury. Just like their “heroes” in the WWF Smackdown.

Restu, Iyo, and Li then practiced the moves into their neighbour Reza, a 9 years old boy.
The boy’s small body was slammed. They crushed the boy’s head into the floor. Reza’s hand was locked and twisted. And various other tortures applied into the little boy.
Reza can not do anything against the three bigger bullies.

Reza then told about the pain to his father, Herman (53), but Reza didn’t tell why or who did it to him. After a week, the pain got much worse, and Reza had to be cared for in a hospital. X-ray photo shows that his left arm’s has been ripped from the socket. He suffered from head injury. And a few other injuries.

On 16 Nov 2006, Reza died, painfully, in Herman’s arms.

Herman asked local parliament and the city’s authority to try stop Lativi, the TV station who aired the show in Indonesia, from continuing the show. He hesitated to sue the TV station, because his concern is to avoid further victims, not to get monetary compensation.

Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (West Java branch) said that they have sent stern warning to Lativi in regard to this. Vice President of KPI (Komisi Penyiaran Indonesia; Indonesian Broadcasting Commission), Sinansari Ecip, said they’ve called Lativi to come next week and will start the investigation.

Lativi’s PR Manager, Raldy Doy, confirmed that he already heard about the boy’s death. He said that Lativi will also perform their own investigation into the matter.
In their written statement received by Republika sent by Raldy via email, he said that SmackDown is purely an entertainment show. I guess that’s even more reason to stop airing it.

Source: Republika newspaper, 22 Nov 2006, first page.

RetailMeNot.com

If you like to shop on Internet, you’ll be well advised to visit RetailMeNot.com before you actually purchase anything. You may save big by doing so, because in RetailMeNot.com you can find many coupons for online shopping websites, shared by other fellow shoppers. For example, you can find 30% discount coupon for O’Reilly books there. Not bad.

Why the Microsoft - Novell deal ?

I knew Steve Ballmer is a bully with a big mouth, but I never expected that he will confess so SOON about the real reason behind the Microsoft - Novell deal.

Quoted :

“In a question-and-answer session after his keynote speech at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference in Seattle, Ballmer said Microsoft was motivated to sign a deal with SUSE Linux distributor Novell earlier this month because Linux ‘uses our intellectual property’ and Microsoft wanted to ‘get the appropriate economic return for our shareholders from our innovation.’”

So, my guess was right - after SCO is no longer able to become Microsoft’s pawn in killing Linux via litigation process, it looked for other prospective pawn; and found Novell / Suse.

I have steered away from Suse just out of reflex, and stuck with Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu/other completely free (as in “freedom”) distros. I guess my subconscious has predicted this event way back then, and steered my away from it.

Novell has always sucked since I first knew it (3.12), OK it managed to be better with its eDirectory and ZENworks, but this (deal) has stripped little remaining respect I had for the company.
But indeed corporations are shameless and are all about making money.

Just say no folks. Let’s kill Suse now just as we killed SCO back then.

The record is currently held by Ang Chuang Yang, which managed to type a 160 characters SMS in 41.52 seconds.

Big deal. Turned out I can do that in about 38 seconds

Wanna try ? Here’s the official text provided by Guinness Book of Records :

The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.

Good luck in beating me up !

MochiKit

After reviewing LOADS of Javascript libraries (my head still hurts), I think I’ll settle with MochiKit.
Pros: It doesn’t hack the Object.prototype, seems to interoperate well, very-well tested, reliable & proven, Free (MIT license).
Looking forward to test it with a live website soon.

Dedicated Server for US$ 29 / mo

These guys gotta be kidding, check it out : AMD 2 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB HD, 200 GB b/w = US$ 29/mo.
I thought it was a VPS, but turned out that this is a real, physical server. Very nice.

Proxy @ Lighttpd

I was trying to utilize Lighttpd’s mod_proxy module, when I realized it’s unable to proxy incoming request to another webserver’s directory.
Example: proxying request for http://harry to http://sufehmi/harry/

However, it seems that the latest version will be able to do this - and more : http://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/2006/07/18/mod_proxy_core-commited-to-svn

Time to upgrade I guess.

I’m developing a PHP script for a client which processes the biggest amount of data I ever dealt with (on PHP).

I’m running it on a server with dual-core Xeon 2.8 GHz (= 4 CPUs), 3 GB RAM, and it’s still struggling with it. The PHP script itself require about 250 MB of RAM - this is after much tweaking; previously it kept on crashing due to running out of memory. However, it also accesses the database heavily and transfer a lot of data into it.

And this script is supposed to be run daily. I don’t think more tweaking is possible, so a more powerful server is probably in order here….

Wicked.

As a lot others experienced as well, I’ve been flooded with spam this month.
I think I’ve lost some important email because of it (deleting legit email by accident, spam filter trashing non-spam email, etc).

I’ve migrated my mailbox to another server which (hopefully) has stronger and more accurate spam-filtering capabilities (no, not Gmail).

If you sent email to me and I have not answered it, do please resend it again.

My apologies for any inconvenience this has caused.

Richard Ness, President Director of Newmont Minahasa Raya (NMR), was in news today as the accused in Newmont’s pollution case in Teluk Buyat, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The state attorney, Purwantha SH, found clear and convincing evidence that the accused has polluted the environment in Teluk Buyat (Buyat Bay) in violation of many laws.

In NMR’s operation, between 1996-2004, they have dumped at least 33 tons of mercury, 17 ton of other polluting gases, and possibly other pollutants as well.

A lot of people suffered because of these. Especially babies and children.

Unfortunately, the state attorney only asked the punishment to be a fine of Rp 500 million (about US$ 50,000), and less than 3 years imprisonment. The actual decision may very much lower than this, so it’s important to set it as high as possible. But with these, a criminal may walk away free and only with a light fine.

The lawsuit continues…

Reference: Republika newspaper, page 5, 11 November 2006

Do you love writing, especially reviews, and pretty good at it ? Now, with a service called ReviewMe.com which has just been launched, you can get paid for doing it.

As with any other good Web 2.0 websites, it’s pretty straightforward.
Advertisers can browse a tag cloud of topics, and see a list of available blogs, along with its cost. Several bloggers than got chosen by the advertiser.

The selected bloggers then got notified via email by ReviewMe.com. They’ll be given information on what to write, and the deadline. Note that at this point, the bloggers can chose not to review it.

Once the review has been written, notify ReviewMe.com via the website. It’ll be then reviewed, and approved (or not). Once approved, payment will be deposited to the blogger’s account.

A new form of blog spam ? Well, I don’t think so. It’s because advertisers can NOT ask for positive reviews. Any advertiser using ReviewMe.com will better be prepared for both positive and negative reviews. This is very important, and as long as this point stays, I’ll be happy to work with ReviewMe.com. (otherwise, goodbye folks)

Actually this is better for the advertisers as well. Customers tend to be silent when they found fault with your product, and just use your competitor’s product instead. You’re left confused, as to why almost nobody is buying.
With help from ReviewMe.com, you’ll get high quality reviews from those who are concerned about the topic, and will enable you to find out the fault with your products. As a producer of several products myself, I personally think this is really great. No more scratching your head in the dark.

However, note that not all blogs will be able to join it. There are certain criterias that must be fulfilled to be accepted. Some of them, I think, are current traffic (from Alexa), Pagerank (from Google), Technorati rank, number of RSS feed subscribers; and probably a few other criterias as well.
It’s not really easy to get in, so don’t be disappointed if they can’t accept you yet. Build your blog, create good content, and who knows, they might invite you instead.

Good luck ! And oh, this is a sponsored post from ReviewMe.com.

Why indeed. From a writer’s point of view, XHTML is a pain, because it’s stricter than HTML. And a few (or many, depending on whether it’s XHTML Transitional or Strict) rules changed too.
All these for what ?

Even the crowd in Slashdot seems to be having problems getting a clear answer to this.

However, XHTML actually does have a huge benefit (in addition to other benefits listed in the discussion above) — it makes your website viewable on mobile devices.

PDA and smartphones nowadays are no longer a rarity. From teenagers to corporate executives, they’re now have and use them on daily basis. And browse the Internet with them.

And only more of them will browse the Internet from their mobile phones.
Even here in Indonesia, I can browse the internet freely using my Nokia 9500 with flat monthly fee of just about US$ 25. And I do browse a lot from my mobile phone

You definitely don’t want to alienate these people.

Adhering to XHTML makes it easy to make your website viewable from mobile devices; actually, pretty much from any browsers. You can even change the whole layout completely in a snap, literally.

So many websites nowadays are not getting traffic from us, mobile Internet users. Their websites are beautiful in Internet Explorer, but shows utter crap or plain nothing on our smartphones.
Don’t let your website to be one of those too !