Wikipedia planned to do anti-SOPA blackout
I’ve heard the news for couple weeks, but only this morning I read official announcement from Wikimedia foundations about their Wikipedia blackout plan. It’s quite an unfortunate decision, but I agree that Wikipedia must make clear of their stance and hold their grounds against the absurdities SOPA and PIPA now (and would) bring.
I heard other Internet giants (Google, Facebook, etc) will launch their own anti-SOPA campaign. I hope their campaign will be a victorious one.
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An incomplete list of sites joining up the blakout campaign http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/its-not-just-wikipedia/251555/.
XKCD: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sopa.png
Blackout compilation http://pinterest.com/sollitaire/sopa/
Minutely report of the campaign on The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/18/sopa-blackout-day-of-action-live
(Almost) Full list of blackout participants http://sopastrike.com/on-strike/
The Piratebay switch to magnet link as default options
The Pirate Bay has announced that they’ve decide to make magnet link as default replacing torrent files. The torrent files would be still available as usual.
I really had no idea what significance this change would bring. Some say this means TPB is doomed to die. Some say it’ll be for better. Well, as I rarely use TPB (3 or 4 times top, IIRC), it doesn’t really matter to me.
Building a planetplanet aggregator website
You can see my planetplanet website at http://gabek.ordinarylad.com. It’s a mix of English and Indonesian contents right now. In the future, it might aggregates content in Bangkanese too 
And some things I learned when I installed planetplanet on shared hosting.
- The basic template is the recommended starting point for tinkering with how the planet will looks like. The fancy template can be confusing for beginners.
- WordPress RSS2 feed can be frustrating to work with. If you want to aggregate WordPress blogs, make sure to use the Atom feed (i.e.
example.wordpress.com/feed/atom). Or use Planet Venus instead, it’s feed parser (supposedly) do better work. - I don’t know if putting absolute path for entries in
config.ini(output dir, template file) is a good idea, but I don’t know how to make it work with relative path entries. - Since planetplanet will only generates index.html and feed files to output dir, you need to put the .css and any needed files (image folders, javascript file)on the output dir beforehand
- To generate index.html, you have to set up a cron job to run
planet.py. On cPanel, pick Cron Jobs and insert absolute path on command box to run planetplanet. So you can’t putplanet.py config.ini, but instead you have to put/path/to/planet.py /path/to/where/you/put/config.ini
Other resource: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8772
A limited “unlimited”
As I’ve wrote at wordpress blog, I got myself a *brand new* USB modem (or so the seller said). I bought a cheap Telkomsel unlimited plan, since the Tri starter pack that bundled with the modem didn’t connect, initially (more on that later).
A 50K rupiah for unlimited plan with 200MB quota seems reasonable at that time, even though Telkomsel didn’t always held the promises. They claimed I could get maximum speed of 384kbps, while in reality it never goes past 50kbps, even on fair usage period. When the fair usage reached, it’s just went downhill. I’d rather refill the prepaid credit and reset the quota than to wait a page load for minutes (sometimes I have to unplug-then-plug-back the modem).
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Google Guitar Doodle
To commemorate Les Paul’s 96th birthday, Google put something quite different on their homepage at June 9th, 2011: a playable Google guitar Doodle
Very cool, isn’t it? 
