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Paypal di Indonesia – belum bisa withdraw…

Teknoblogia

Gembira sekali sewaktu membaca posting Wahyu bahwa PayPal kini sudah menerima pendaftaran dari warga negara Indonesia. Segera saya membuka account baru disitu.

Lalu saya cek bagian yang paling penting – withdrawal / tarik duit 🙂

Lha, muncul pesan berikut ini :

PayPal accounts opened in this country or region currently cannot withdraw funds. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you.

We are continually expanding our global network to give valued users like you greater access to the wide range of PayPal options.

Ah.. kelihatannya masih harus menunggu lagi.

Anyway, ini sudah mendingan dari sebelumnya. Mudah-mudahan penungguan yang sekarang ini tidak terlalu lama.

XL Corporate : Billing service

Teknoblogia

Ringkasan:
1. Ketik *108# lalu tekan dial (up to date!)
2. SMS ke 9767 dengan isi “BILL” untuk mendapatkan rincian tagihan XL Anda (laporan tagihan s/d kemarin).

Kemarin, tiba-tiba HP tidak bisa digunakan, karena “Account Anda diblokir karena telah melewati credit limit”. Lha, perasaan enggak ada menelpon kemana-mana yang mahal, jadi rasanya mustahil kalau baru tanggal 11 Oktober saja sudah melewati credit limit (Rp 1 juta).

Jadinya coba cek ke nomor 818 pagi ini pukul 08:45

Lebih lucu lagi, pertama kali disambut “For service in English, press 1″… tunggu sebentar, lho tidak ada pilihan untuk memilih bahasa Indonesia.
Ya sudah, pencet satu. Lha….. layanannya ternyata dalam b.Indonesia 🙂
Kemudian terdengar “Tekan 1 untuk layanan billing, yo wis, pencet 1.

Hm.. hening.

Setelah lama menunggu, akhirnya telpon saya tutup. Lalu coba dial 818 lagi.

“Untuk layanan dalam bahasa Inggris, tekan 1” … lho, beda sambutannya. OK, tekan 1.
Lalu terdengar berikutnya, “Untuk layanan informasi kartu Jempol, tekan 1” …. 😀 … sampai akhirnya selesai semua jenis kartu XL disebut, dan tidak ada pilihan untuk mendapatkan informasi billing sama sekali.

Lha, bagaimana saya mau cek tagihan saya ya..

Kemudian penasaran maka berkali-kali saya mencoba dial 818. SETIAP kali dicoba, menunya selalu berubah kembali.
Ajaib tenan 🙂

Setelah beberapa lama, akhirnya saya sadar bahwa kadang ada pilihan “Tekan 0 untuk berbicara dengan customer service kami”. Maka kemudian saya dial 818 berkali-kali (dan nyengir sendiri mendengar menunya yang jago polymorphing itu) — sampai akhirnya terdengar pilihan untuk berbicara dengan customer service, maka saya segera menekan tombol 0 (nol).

Apakah saya akan menunggu di antrian selama berjam-jam (a la Indosat Matrix) sebelum dapat berbicara dengan staf Customer Service XL ?
Alhamdulillah, ternyata tidak perlu. Hanya dalam waktu sektiar 2 menit saja, sudah ada yang menyapa dan membantu saya. Dari ybs saya menemukan bahwa kita bisa mengetahui detil tagihan kita dengan SMS ke 9767 dengan isi “BILL”.

OK, menu layanan customer service boleh berubah-ubah. Tapi mudah-mudahan tagihannya tidak yaa… kecuali, kalau berubah makin kecil. No problem ! 😀

keywords: cek tagihan pulsa xl

Teknologi anti nyamuk

Teknoblogia

Dari milis teknologia :

To: teknologia@googlegroups.com
From: Eko Prasetya
Subject: [teknologia] Re: teknologi anti nyamuk ?

Ini ada cara yang lebih murah, walaupun mungkin ngga se-efektif skeeterbag.

http://www.diyhappy.com/quick-and-dirty-mosquito-trap/

KOkon.

On 10/10/06, Ronny Haryanto wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 03:49:27AM -0000, Luki Rustianto wrote:
> > Saya sudah desperate nih menghadapi sebuah hewan kecil imut yang
> > bernama nyamuk, kebetulan rumah daerah yang deket banget sungai jadi
> > kalo menjelang malem kompisisi jumlah nyamuk dan manusia bisa 100:1,
> > artinya kita gerak dikit udah tabrakan sama nyamuk yang terbang.
> >
> > Ada yang tau tips, trik, sulap, pengalaman pribadi dsj yang efektif
> > mengusir nyamuk ?
>
> Murah meriah. Bisa ditiru idenya. Nangkep nyamuk sekaligus ngadem.
> http://skeeterbag.com/
>
> Pake hewan, manusia, atau lampu (sumber panas/cahaya) untuk dijadikan
> “umpan”. Hehe.
>
> Ronny

Vetusware.com

In English, Teknoblogia

It’s 05:30 and I’m already working… ok, let’s start with something light then.

Riyo of Bedeng.com told me yesterday about a website, which I have let my browser opened on since; Vetusware.com. It brings way too many memories from the past.

Back then, BannerMania was dominating the banner-creation scene. Pretty much all banners created by computer back then will either be created by BannerMania, or PrintMaster. It hurts your eyes after a while though, so Broderbund’s PrintShop (and much later, Microsoft Publisher) was a welcome change.

I gained fame in my university after writing an article for campus’ magazine in Assembly language, compiled with Turbo Assembler. It was a small utility written to park hard disk’s read/write head to a safe place, so it won’t crash on a data-laden sector when the computer is shut down.
A lot of my friend was amazed to see first-year student already coded in Assembly. I don’t, since high school I have seen others (high schoolers) doing it for years. Some people are really bright, it’s quite scary.

With help from PC-Tools, I’ve managed to extract data from unreadable floppies. Since floppies still uses FAT12 data structure, it was quite easy to salvage data from it using direct sector access. Still, some people thought I’m some kind of wizard or something, heh.
I prefer PC-Tools v4.23 though (the link above is version 6.0), it’s simple, does the job with none the bloat, and very small at about 100kb (I think).

Being a Pascal hardcore, I was quick to obtain a copy of Turbo Pascal 1.5 for Windows when it was released, and started coding in it. However, like Wordstar for Windows, it’s pretty buggy, and I had to abandon it.

Not many people know this, but Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was a God-send (or, for Bill-haters, Satan-send). A lot of PC was first interconnected via network with each other with this. It was more stable as well than Windows 3.1 (surprise!)
In my previous job using this, we were able to purchase less printers, and started sharing them instead via network. It resulted in a lot of yelling though, “Is the printer ready yet ??”, “Hey, insert some paper there will you”, and so on – until we introduced them to WinPopup. Then people started to annoy each other with it *sigh*.
Well, at least only us knew how to SPAM the WHOLE network,especially when we’re pissed off. Respect mah authoritah !

When VisualBasic 3 showed up, I quickly realized that I can code multimedia applications easily with it. I recorded a few nasyid into WAV files, photoshop-ed a few graphics and photos; resulting in a (back then) jaw-dropping multimedia-rich interactive demo. With lots of buttons, of course.
I donated the demo to the Islamic society in my campus for use in the campus fair (where each society presented themselves to new students). I think they had a lot of new students signed up with them then.

Before WinAmp, we had trackers. Modplay was one of it. It’s really, really amazing to hear your computer playing polyphonic sounds from the internal speaker, which usually only sounded the boring *beep*.
Later I bought Soundblaster’s AWE32, and midi files suddenly sounded so awesome.
Then MP3 came, and everything became obsolete. *sniff*

GIF2ANSI ? What the heck is that ? Well, on the “black screen” (DOS), ANSI was the graphic for the (otherwise) boring console. Believe it or not, just by using text, people managed to create astoundingly great art. GIF2ANSI makes this process simple and a no-brainer for a, well, no-brainer.

ASCIImation is where you can watch StarWars in ASCII. “Awesome” is not descriptive enough to explain it.
And in ASCIImator you can find lots of modern ASCII arts.

Right, I REALLY have to start working now. Enjoy !

Jagalah Rumah Anda di Internet

internet, Teknoblogia

Barusan saya mampir ke sebuah situs milik kawan saya, tapi dengan terkejut saya menyaksikan bagaimana situs tersebut telah diserobot oleh orang lain dan kini berisi iklan-iklan 🙁

Kelihatannya ybs terlambat memperpanjang sewa domain namenya. Sehingga berhasil dirampas oleh hijacker.

Seorang kawan dulu pernah kehilangan juga domain name hotelnya, garuda-hotel.com. Setelah beberapa tahun menjadi situs iklan, akhirnya kini domain name tersebut diambil alih oleh garuda hotel – di Nepal.

Kawan yang lainnya dulu pernah memiliki website yang cukup populer, dengan alamat cybernasyid.com. Namun suatu hari dia lupa memperpanjang sewanya – dan sampai kini website tersebut menjadi situs porno.

Apa yang bisa Anda lakukan untuk mencegah terjadinya hal ini ?

  • Buat satu buah alamat email dengan domain name Anda sendiri
  • Atur agar semua domain name Anda didaftarkan dengan alamat email ini
  • Buat catatan yang rapi tentang domain name yang Anda miliki; tempat membelinya, tanggal expire, dll

Namun, apa yang bisa Anda lakukan jika nasi telah menjadi bubur ?

Untunglah sejak beberapa tahun yang lalu telah ada sebuah layanan yang bernama Internet Archive. Dengan slogan “Universal Access to Human Knowledge”, website yang pernah di index olehnya akan selalu terus tersedia, walaupun telah dibajak oleh orang lain sekalipun !

Sebagai contoh, situs Secandri.com masih bisa diakses dari sini (walaupun tidak up to date). Sedangkan situs Cybernasyid.com bisa diakses dari sini.

Bagaimana jika situs Anda ternyata belum muncul di Internet Archive ? Tidak perlu bingung, silahkan bisa langsung Anda daftarkan disini.

Tunggu apa lagi, segera amankan rumah Anda di Internet !

YusufAsyari.com updated

Sosial, Teknoblogia

Sepertinya Menpera baru saja kembali dari sebuah perjalanan dinas, karena baru-baru ini aktif kembali di situs beliau. Ya, ada beberapa komentar di weblognya yang dibalas sendiri oleh beliau. Andakah yang beruntung ? 🙂
Juga karenanya kemungkinan besar akan ada posting-posting baru di weblog beliau dalam waktu singkat ini. Makin menarik saja 🙂

Blogger Indonesia of the Week

In English

I feel very honored when found out that I’ve been chosen as the Indonesian Blogger of the Week by Fatih. Personaly though I don’t think I deserve it. As I found more and more Indonesian blogs, I realized that there are many bloggers who are better than me. Here’s an example. So many others, so much better. I’m glad that the Indonesian blogosphere is growing rapidly, and there are so many interesting things we can find there.
Nonetheless, thanks again Mas Fatih.

ps: the article linked to my old website for my profile, and I just realized that I haven’t setup any page on this blog, not even an “about” page. My bad. As the consequence, if you clicked on that old “about me” page in that article, you’ll see the slim me 🙂 I’ve gained, err… some weight after those photos were taken. Heh.
Okay, one “about” page coming soon.

A Preacher For Traders

Islam, religion

For the past few weeks, every Saturday morning, I joined in a gathering in friend`s house. Called “pengajian”, or muslims gathering, usually there`s a preacher (ustadz) speaking, and the others are listening. The topic is strictly religion-related. This one is a bit different though.

First, almost all of the audience are traders; all from west sumatera region. Second, the preacher is a trader too. A millionaire in fact. Third, questions and discussions are most welcome at any time, even if it will interrupt the speech.

Needless to say, every meeting is a heated and lively one. Religious dogma got interconnected with real-life cases seamlessly. The preacher happened to be an expert in Qur’an, instantly citing the related verses for each cases. He also happened to be a senior trader among us, definitely the richest. His responses are very much based on his Quranic expertise as much as on his trading experiences. The audience however doesn’t always accept everything willingly, questioning everything critically. The speaker responded in clarity, satisfying everyone.
There are cases sometimes when he doesn’t know the answer, and he’s willing to admit it. To which of course we have no problem.

Some of the interesting discussions :

  1. Bribery / commission : The slippery slope. A trader complained that many of his corporate customers are asking for commission. Otherwise, they’ll buy from other supplier, causing him great loss for each customer.

    The speaker responded that he definitely avoid marking-up practice; where you inflate the price on the corporate invoice, and give the difference to the person.

    However the trader raised another issue, where he didn’t do that, and he actually lowered the price so the company is getting the best deal – and on top of that he still had to give the person some money (out of his own pocket).

    Everyone agreed that this is kind of a grey area. First, this can be categorized as bribery, since he won’t give the money if that person is not the company’s staff (this is among the definition of bribe). However, on the other hand, if he doesn’t give the money, that company’s employee will buy from other supplier; which actually sells at higher price with lower customer service quality.

    A trader then told his experience as a supplier to a foreign company; he gave gift to the contact as usual; but the contact declined. But the surprise doesn’t end there, a few days later another company’s official showed up on his shop and asked him for name of employees who has received gift from him. To which he said none (which is the case).
    He was then told that if there are any of the company’s staff dared asking for gift (bribe) from him, just report them, and they’ll be sacked immediately.

    We wished if only all companies, especially local ones, are like this. It will make life much simpler for us.

  2. Government siding with conglomerates, and killing traders in the process. Especially with the rise of multi-story malls, while ignoring various planning regulations; killing traditional markets in the process.

    One of the solution is to move into “modern” market, aka the malls. But this is not always easy, and definitely is not cheap. A shop in traditional market can cost only about 20% of a shop in a mall — and generate more money. In malls, the traditional traders will have to compete with well-known, international brands. It’s as if we’ve gone to the war againts giants.

    People will need to go to the malls less often, and to the traditional markets more. And planning regulations (eg; no hypermarket in town, etc) needs to be executed properly.

  3. Business in the remote areas : surprisingly, this can be very profitable. Reason being no one else is looking to do business there. So when you come, there’s usually no competition. The speaker have even traded in East Timor, during the war time. He made serious amount of money back then, because everyone else was too scared to trade in a war zone.

    He noted that other traders have commented that the more dangerous the area, the easier to trade, because “you can make your own laws”. Needless to say, he doesn’t recommend this.

I’m currently looking forward for the next gathering.

Spam Karma 2

In English, Teknoblogia

I just realized that Akismet marked 4 legitimate comments, today, as spam. That’s too much false positive for one day, no way I’m gonna wade through 24000+ spam to find out the other false positives.
So I installed Spam Karma 2 instead.

So far, looks like this is one quality WP plugin. I just unzipped in plugins directory, activate it, and it works straight away. Most will find no need to change the default settings, it’s already good enough.

Kudos to Dr. Dave for the excellent work. Also thanks to Eko for introducing me to SK2.

QKLK: 4 million kilometer Volvo and The latest on gender equalities

Etc, In English

Irv Gordon and his Volvo breaks 4 million kilometers milestone : I’d really like my next car to be a Volvo — 4 million kilometers and not a single failed start ! That’s mighty impressive.

Other facts : Zero engine replacement / it still has the original engine (40 years old now!), oil change about every 5000 km, engine tune up every 40000 km.
Well done Mr Gordon.

Boys try to join girls’ team on human-rights ruling : Again, a case of rarity of common-sense. Boys are different than girls (and vice versa), period. Especially at a topic like sport, where the difference is even clearer. Everyone is special, it’s absurd to generalize everyone.

I do wonder what the real reason is for the boys to join the girls team. Perhaps they just want to see how the girls’ changing room looks like, yeah that must be it 🙂

ManiacMuslim.com

In English, Islam

WARNING: Do NOT, I repeat, do not visit this website when you don’t have time to spare. Also make sure that no one is around when you browse it, to save you from embarrassment of witnessed while laughing like madman to your computer.

Joke about inter-family marriage

ManiacMuslim.com is a satire website; created by a muslim (goes by name of Hamzah Moin) that discusses about various silly things muslims does. The best thing is it’s really funny, so instead of making people angry, some people can only smile and thought “oh well, he’s right about it”. Most people will succumb to uncontrollable laughter though. 🙂

For example; the Darth Vader picture is in an article (among others) criticizing inter-family marriage. In some muslim countries, there’s tendencies to marry with close family, such as cousins. This is permitted in Islam, but not encouraged – however some muslims are going overboard with it. The article criticize it in a strikingly funny way.

More surprises are in this article, about Facebook and its adoption by some Muslims. I’ve already witnessed myself one of the incident (a sister with hijab showed her photos without hijab on Friendster, to our surprise), so I think this article is not pure satire; but mostly based on real events. Sad, but true.

Some muslims are overzealous in their dawa (call to Islam). This article remind us of the potential pitfall of extremism. Made me cringe. On the other hand, this website has the best coverage of the Danish incident. Poor Kinder Surprise never even saw it coming, LOL.

There’s the classic ones as well, such as the Online Nikah (OMG, ROFLMAO). If you’re having problems understanding some of the lingo used there, please feel free to refer to this short guide.

Despite making all kind of fun on (silly) Muslims, Hamzah is actually promoting a conservative & rational Islam. In this article for example, he encouraged people to do Nikah procession like the Prophet did :

Batman beaten by Riddleress

This is the #1 justification for every Muslim male on the planet to get chummy with girls. Well more than chummy actually. E-dating… where you first exchange your life stories and pics then move onto feelings and thoughts about one another and become almost lovers when all of a sudden the guy backs off and says “no sister we are just brothers and sisters in Islam… nothing more… teehee.”

I’m sorry brothers but let’s face it… you can talk to 100 women before marriage and think you “mastered the girl situation” but as soon as that Nikkah contract is signed, you’ll soon realize that the “experience” you received from e-dating those 100 Muslim girls in the past was useless. Why? Because girls are unsolvable. Period. Ever stop and wonder why they made the Riddler from the Batman comics to be a male? It’s because if the Riddler was a female then Batman would NEVER be able to solve any of her riddles. The Riddleress would be victorious and that would be the end of Batman forever.

The islamic nikah process is simple, and there’s no need to make it complex :

The whole marriage process done the Islamic way is ample enough time to get to know your potential spouse. No need to instant message each other 4 years before the big day to “get acquainted”. I’d get bored if I already knew everything about my wife after (or before) the Nikkah, wouldn’t you?

Almost consistently in his articles, Hamzah promotes logic instead of emotion, conservatism instead of extremism, humbleness instead of arrogance.

Superior logic, excellent grammar and spelling, and great sense of humor. Even has an article with Batman in it. What more could you ask ?

Highly recommended !

Buku Edubuntu

Open-Source, Teknoblogia

Setelah menyelenggarakan 2 kali installfest Edubuntu, ternyata masih ada lagi kejutan dari Pak Toosa – sebuah buku berjudul “Edubuntu, Pedoman Praktis Linux untuk Pendidikan“. Well done !

Bagi para praktisi pendidikan yang ingin beralih ke Linux, buku ini dapat membantu Anda mencapai tujuan yang diinginkan. Harga Rp 40.000 (sudah termasuk CD Edubuntu), bisa dipesan ke toosa@oo-linux.com. (Untuk luar Jabodetabek + ongkos kirim)

Sekali lagi selamat dan salut kepada Pak Toosa & Pak Rusmanto untuk hasil karyanya ini.

Jakarta Bloggers goes International

In English, Teknoblogia

If you’re a blogger, or wish to be, and live in Jakarta; Metroblogging.com would like to have you on-board.

Metroblogging is a unique website where bloggers there are blogging about their own city. I think this is an excellent opportunity to introduce Jakarta (and Indonesia) from our own perspectives.

If you’re interested, [ just click here to apply ].

Here’s the email from Sean :

From: Sean Bonner
To: Harry
Subject: Re: MetBlogs Author Application – Jakarta

Thanks for getting in touch about writing for Metroblogging. We’d love for you to write for us!

Sorry for this form-lettery sounding note but there’s a bunch of stuff I’ve got to tell you so here goes:

At this point, all of our writers are volunteer. While some aspects of that might change down the line, currently we can’t offer to pay anyone for blogging. Hopefully this gets a lot of people a lot of exposure and gets your stuff in front of people it wouldn’t have been otherwise and all that.

The general agreement is this – you own everything you write and can stop writing at any point, but by writing it for our site you grant us permission to use it and keep a copy even if you leave – You own your name, we own the company and site names. You are responsible for your own words. Pretty basic. By replying to this e-mail you agree to those terms.

We’re also counting on you to post several times a week as you said you could in the application. If you don’t think you can actually do that please let us know right away. We’ll be kind of bummed if we set you up and then you don’t keep posting.

I need to know what e-mail address you want to use as your contact, this will be for internal mailings and such.

You are also going to need a short bio for the site, this is where you can brag about anything else you are working on or link to your own blog, or anything at all. When your account it set up you’ll be able to add this at that point, so it might be a good idea to get something ready.

Thanks. Once I hear back from you we’ll be added to the mailings lists right away, but it will take a few days to get you access to the site.

Again, if you have any questions, let me know, and thanks again for being involved, I think this is going to turn out very cool. Thanks!

-sean

Top 10 Trang web ?ánh lô ?? online uy tín nh?t 2023


http://www.seanbonner.com

PS – The cities that are not active yet (both those listed and unlisted) will be made active in order of what fills up first.
We are trying to get 10 bloggers per city to give things a good perspective,
so please feel free to pass this on to other people in your town
because the sooner we get to 10, the sooner we launch the city.

Agregator @ Groups.or.id

Teknoblogia

Selama ini saya kesulitan mengkonsolidasikan RSS feed saya, karena lokasi saya yang selalu berpindah-pindah dan tidak selalu menggunakan komputer yang sama. Solusinya, jelas saya membutuhkan sebuah RSS reader yang berbasis web, sehingga bisa diakses dari mana saja dan kapan saja.

Tapi setelah mencoba berbagai agregator seperti Bloglines, Kinja, dll; akhirnya justru tidak terpakai oleh saya karena LAMBAT 🙂
Maklum sih, karena server mereka berada di luar negeri. Namun sementara itu, kebutuhan saya tetap tidak terpenuhi

Akhirnya saya mendapatkan ide untuk membuat layanan semacam Bloglines — namun di Groups.or.id, sehingga aksesnya bisa sangat cepat. Hal ini dimungkinkan karena server Groups.or.id berada di Indonesia.

Dengan gembira saya mempersembahkan [ Agregator @ Groups.or.id ]

Kelebihannya :

  1. Cepat ! server groups.or.id berada di Indonesia, dan terkoneksi dengan baik.
  2. Layout minimalis ! tidak ada iklan, hanya ada satu grafik, sehingga browsing RSS feed menjadi menyenangkan.
  3. Customizeable : Buat account, dan mulai membuat agregator Anda sendiri.

Selamat menikmati !

nb : ada yang mau membantu membuatkan template CSS yang bagus untuk ini ? 😉

Breaking news : Website pra sejarah ditemukan kembali

Teknoblogia

Well, gak pra sejarah amat sih 🙂 tapi yang jelas sudah lenyap dari Internet — sampai kemudian saya temukan kembali di http://archive.org .. wuih, terharu euy…

  1. Blog jadul : Belum ada WordPress dkk, gak mau nebeng di blog gratisan (takut contentnya nanti lenyap/tersandera) walhasil blognya dibuat sendiri 😀 pakai PHP3, hihi.

    Sudah up sejak Januari 2001 (halo Mas Budi, keduluan saya beberapa bulan ya 😉 ).

  2. Birmingham’s Citizen Forum : Suatu saat ketiban tugas untuk membuat forum agar masyarakat bisa berinteraksi dengan para wakilnya. Masalah: phpBB tidak mendukung Oracle, database standar di Birmingham City Council. Alhasil, selama beberapa minggu pontang-panting mempermak phpBB, sampai akhirnya bisa konek ke Oracle, hore!

    Sayangnya, setelah kepergian saya, tidak ada yang bisa meng apply patch-patch udate dari tim phpBB, sampai akhirnya forum tersebut di hack, dan terpaksa di shutdown sampai sekarang ….

Wow, nostalgia ….

Freenode founder died, family in debt

In English, Teknoblogia

I was frozen for a few moments when I read the news.
Rob Levin died at age of 50 on 16 September, when a car hit him on 12 September. He left behind a wife and a children, Benjamin.

No prejudice / cynical remarks on him not wearing helmet please; I didn’t wear one when I was cycling in Birmingham – the helmet belt was choking me and I wasn’t able to find one which doesn’t. I’m sure Rob has a good reason too.
I ended up taking emptier routes – Birmingham’s canals sports only people and cyclist, no cars. Rob seems to has no choice on this aspect.

I have a family and kid(s) too, so I’m very sad to find out that they’re (quite deep) in debt. The fact that their son, Benjamin, suffers from ADHD doesn’t help the situation. Yes, I read a lot from his blogs and website tonight.

And, some people still had to make it more difficult for them, by spreading lies about Rob. Unbelieveable, but part of me is happy that Rob is now free from these bullies.

Rob has dedicated 12 years of his life for Freenode. For this duration, he lived in poverty. Yet he believed in it, and persisted. He helped grew Freenode from 3000 users service to more than 30000 users; profiting many open source projects in the process. We may owe this man more than we know.

Rest in peace Rob. You deserved it.

I’ll register a monthly donation through his spinhome website, to help support his family a bit. If you can as well, please do. It’s the least we can do now for him.

5 Movies for the Bubble child

In English, Teknoblogia

Let’s pretend that recently there’s a bubble child just stepped on our world, finally able to get out from its plastic prison thanks to its body’s immunity system recovery.
Having lived all his live in isolation, you’re asked to choose 5 movies to show to him which will quickly get him to understand the world he’s in now.

Which movies will you choose ?

Here’s my list :

  1. Living with hunger : If you have easy access to food & clean water, you’re actually a minority on earth.
  2. The Insider : Mega corporations are indeed abusing us.
  3. Erin Brockovich : to realize the most important fact about legal system in most countries – they are not siding with the weak and poor.
  4. V for Vendetta : The government doesn’t always work in your best interests.
  5. Kingdom of Heaven : it IS possible for various religions / races / skin colours to live together in peace and harmony.

What’s your list ?

Thanks to Stephen Booth for the idea.