Gong Xi Fa Chai
“Congratulations and be prosperous”
Happy Chinese New Year for all of you who celebrates it. Best wishes for you and family 
Seems the minister suffered from dementia
Let’s went back to 6 days ago. Mr Tifatul Sembiring, the Minister of Communication & Information hinted that one of the reasons for giving RIM a warning is that they didn’t pay tax to Indonesian government.
He even went posting a sarcastic poem to those who disagree with him about this issue
Yet today, he plainly claim “I didn’t ask them to pay taxes”
Since he is from PKS, he couldn’t be lying, no? *coughsarcasmcough* Then the only reasonable explantion to his inconsistent statement is that he suffered from acute dementia.
Either that, or he’ll blame his staff that supposed to maintain his tweet in his lieu.
Update: yup, he made his staff as scapegoat.
Whoa, it’s 2011 already?
It’s been a while since the last time I wrote on this blog. And for a while I think it couldn’t again. You see, I totally forgot that this domain is expiring last Tuesday (Jan 11th). Good thing I noticed before too late. Paid the bill, and this site will still up till January next year, hopefully.
Following the 365 day challenge on my other blog, I might do similar challenge on this blog too. Not 365 consecutive daily post, off course. That would be way crazy. Once a week sounds reasonable. And if even that’s too hard, I can always lower the target to 1-2 posts a month (albeit it can no longer called a challenge, isn’t it?)
The point is, this year I’m planning to make full use of this blog. Write till the last period. Quantity over quality! 
Repo hopping
Kadang-kadang saya kesulitan mengupdate Ombilin karena tidak konek ke repo. Pertama kali install Ombilin pakai reponya Kambing, lalu didobel repo Mugos. Lumayan lama pakai keduanya. Cuma baru-baru ini saya nggak bisa konek keduanya via wifi gratisan, akhirnya utak-atik /etc/apt/sources.list lagi. Waktu itu entah kenapa cuma repo Buaya yang bisa konek. Dan sampai sekarang masih mengupdate dari repo itu. Malas soalnya kalau mesti ganti repo kemudian apt-get update lagi. Pahamlah, sudah musafir benwit, fakir pula 
deb http://buaya.klas.or.id/blankon ombilin main restricted extras extras-restricted
deb http://buaya.klas.or.id/blankon ombilin-updates main restricted extras extras-restricted
#deb http://buaya.klas.or.id/blankon ombilin-security main restricted
Wrong priorities there, huh? Mestinya komen repo ombilin-updates, bukannya ombilin-security
Pile of photos without good backup plan
Lately I’ve been carrying a camera everywhere. Not an expensive DSLR one, mind you, just a cheap point-and-shoot one. I used it on everything. Literally everything. People, signs, plants, water, lights, leaves, cats, building. I’m not pretending to be an “artistic” photographer. I just feel like grabbing pictures. Like those “alay”, taking pictures every few minutes. The differences is that I’m not taking pictures of myself, with one arm holding the camera 45 degrees slightly left above my head .
The pictures are so-so; some good, some flat, some really bad. And it filled up the harddisk rather quickly. As I’m writing this post, quarter portion of my netbook harddrives is occupied by those pictures. It’s rather surprising since the filesizes are averagely small, but I guess I underestimated the quantities. I should really resizing them all, to save spaces and all that, but I got more important concern: Backup.
You see, I consider those pictures as important memories, snapshot of my life. Okay, that’s exaggarating, but losing them surely will irritating, at least. I’ve lost 4GB of photos by a formatting “accident”. Now that’s not merely irritating, it worth cursing. And I want to prevent it happen again.
The plan? Not much. I’ve been uploading some pictures to photosharing sites and my blog, but there’s a limit on that. And I’m just uploading a few good ones. The others still intact on the netbook, and I can only pray that no bad stuff happened on them. At least not until I get a good backup media. A good external harddisk will do, I think.
How about old school way: printing them all? While printing is cheap (viva custom infus printer!), there’s no way I’ll spend a big load of money on photo papers. And since there’s no point of printing them on plain paper, I think I’ll skip this alternative.
