Self-Inflicted

Wednesday, May 14, 2003

Our office moved. We've been at our new place since Monday. I don't like our new place. Maybe because I'm not used to it yet. I hope.
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Mean people suck.
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My good friend mas A just became a father to a healthy 3.5 kg baby girl this morning. Congratulations mas A!
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Tuesday, May 13, 2003

Yay! I finally found out what was wrong with our SMS gateway. For something that's been bugging me for the past two days the fix was quick; it only took 5 minutes to do. The killer was in finding what was wrong with it, where the bug was. After we moved we encountered so many problems with our IT infrastructure and that equals to working until the wee hours of the morning for us.
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Monday, May 05, 2003

A dream of mine a couple of years back. [via Slashdot]
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THE CRIME IMPORT (www.international.com) is back in Lampu Merah!
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Top 75 Network Security Tools.
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I saw a very good movie this weekend, which had a scene that very much reminded me of my own daily rants.
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Thursday, May 01, 2003

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The index of our entire site (read: our livelihood) has been yanked off The Almighty Google. I wonder what happened?
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I usually take the backroads out of the area I live in when leaving home for work to avoid the building up of the traffic jam which usually happens very early in the morning. The path I take goes thru a residential area whose inhabitants claim that their roads have been experiencing damage from the heavy traffic going thru their neighborhood every day. In an effort to finance the repair of the damaged roads, the residents of the vicinity set up a collection post, charging Rp. 2000 for every car that goes thru the area. They also put up a whiteboard stating the total of funds gathered so far. This morning I observed there were eight people involved in this operation which from what I see could be sufficiently run by only two, one to hand out the tickets and collect the money and another to prepare for change if necessary. Okay, I'll be a bit lenient and let one more person update the whiteboard which brings the total crew up to three people. But even then, what would the other five be doing? Have we truly become a nation of rent seekers?
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Tuesday, April 29, 2003

Today's Kompas reports that the number of unemployment in Indonesia will go thru an increase of 1.6 million people in 2003, bringing the total of unemployed up to 40 million.
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Apple unveils new Internet music store with 200,000 titles available online. Each song costs 99 cents to download and has the most liberal copying rights of any online service to date. The Apple site says "In a nutshell, you can play your music on up to three computers, enjoy unlimited synching with your iPods, burn unlimited CDs of individual songs, and burn unchanged playlists up to 10 times each." Quite a deal. Too bad the service is only available in the U.S. And only for Macs. I'll fare well here with my .mp3s, thank you.
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Monday, April 28, 2003

Are Iraqis running the U.S. Airlines? Philip Greenspun gives an interesting perspective.
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Wireless Electricity! Is this for real? Technology used in microwave ovens is used to beam electricity without the need for cables. [via Slashdot]
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Wednesday, April 23, 2003

During a meeting with the Mobile Data Services division of the largest cellular carrier in the nation, I realized how arrogant they were just because of their sheer size. They think because of their 7 million subscribers and their vast network infrastructure they can control every aspect of the partnership with their content suppliers without even giving their partners a choice. Building cellular data services is a killing-a-chicken-with-a-machine-gun problem; you spray bullets all over the barn and then go in and check how many chickens you've actually killed (you get to keep them for dinner). As for the bullets that don't hit, you don't have to worry about them, they're expendable. You can just drop your unpopular services any time you want to. Carriers should make it a breeze for content providers to connect to their systems and allow them to do it in the shortest time possible. Furthermore, carriers should share with their content partners a significant amount of the revenues generated from these services. It's called incentive. It's something every mobile operator here ought to understand. 7 million customers or not.
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