Free as in Freedom

I just saw Ust. Quraish Shihab on MetroTV this morning saying that we are free to choose our religion. He also said that one must face the corresponding consequences of choosing such faith him/herself.
However, since apostasy in Islam is punishable by death, I doubt it is free enough to be called freedom.

It's not that I lost my faith. I just found it disturbing that such foremost muslim scholar unaware of such thing.

Shiver Me Timbers!

Unbloggable Months

Well...two months without blogging...
I lost my desire to write these two months.
Mostly due to:

• FIFA World Cup '06 Germany
• (Somehow single) Parenting

Now, since I feel quite narcisist enough, it's time to write again :-D

Intransitive Trust

In those ol' days...there were Windows NT4.
I remember the pain of setting every domain to trust each other as the trust relationship between domain is one way and intransitive.
To get every domain connected in a sane way is a great challenge.
Especially if you put different version of windows into.

That memory suddenly came to mind...
As I feel so miserable when I've got so little trust from someone I love, while she got mine, fully.
Perhaps, I need to be wiretapped, equipped with gps, and monitored 24/7 as well?!
This is ridiculous and draining my sanity.

*Taking deep breath, holding it for several seconds, and release it slowly...repeated 3x*

Hello World! :-)

Another Google April Fools' Joke

I am always fascinated by their April1st Jokes
Just now they launched Google Romance
Just check it at http://www.google.com/romance/
Have fun

100.000 km milestone

The odometer of my motorbike has just passed 100.000 kms milestone :-)
The odometer itself, however, consists of 5 digit only,
hence, its returned to ZERO :-D

Time to sell the bike eh?

j/k

Merah Putih

What makes a nation, nation?
no...I think the question should be ...
What keeps a nation, nation?

...

Are we really still a nation... or perhaps... we never was...?!

Split Personality

Wow, finally...
First post of the year :-)
It seems I am not narcissist enough to write regularly last year.
However, It doesn't mean that I had nothing to write about.
I just couldn't write it here since I would like to keep several things private.
Now, since I have splitted my dark-self into other pensieve, I think there will be more writings here...probably :-)

Anyway...
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Microsoft signs as Wembley backer

Being a fan of English Premiership League, and a linux user, the news of MS becoming a Wembley backer quickly get my attention. From TFA, MS will support Wembley with its technology. I wonder what it means. Does it mean that any information service provided in Wembley will be run in MS Platform? Will any information can only be accessed trough MS tools?
If that's what MS pursues in, I think it's a smart marketing manouver since Wembley is a very Iconic stadium for all football fans.
I just hope that Mark Shuttleworth or any other open source tycoons(?!) can find a counter of such tactic. After all, football fans are also human being, right? :-D

MERDEKA!!!

Telat sehari...... tapi..........

MERDEKA !!!

Semoga dengan berjalannya waktu....kita dapat memerdekakan diri kita pula,
dari penjajahan ekonomi, budaya dan teknologi.

Mumpung temanya tentang kemerdekaan, dengan ini saya proklamasikan kemerdekaan komputer saya dari jeratan virus, spyware dan software2 terlarang (baca:bajakan) :-D

Merdekalah selalu Indonesiaku, Merdekalah pula komputerku...

MERDEKA!!!


-Written in Ubuntu Linux 5.04, using Mozilla Firefox Web Browser-

Instant Pasta

I like Italian food. However, I don't fancy preparing it myself. So far, all I need to do when I want some pizza or pasta is going to the nearest Pizza Hut franchise or pick up the phone and make orders. That's before I found Pazto instant pasta and LaFonte instant spaghetti.

The preparation was quick and easy (just like preparing instant noodle). Boil a glass of water, pour the ingredients, stir well, wait for several minutes and voila! I had a bowl of hot pasta :-D

Now I'm going to try it with hot water instead of boiled water. If I succeed, I'll be having hot pasta for lunch, at work .... hmmmm........ yummy

Digital Posession

When we bought a digital media, do we really OWN it? In my opinion, "buying digital media" is an absurd phrase. Why? Because when we bought a gum, whether we chew it, tear it, spit it or even swallow it, we are free to do so.... as it is ours. The essential meaning of posession should be the freedom to do anything on/at/with the posessed object. And that's not the case with digital media.

"Buying" digital media means the we're bonded with some "EULA-ish" agreement, which prohibits us to do anything the author disapprove. We cannot really own such media because the original author only shared some portion of media posession to us. Hence, we are only granted some right of use.

However, could such agreement really be enforced? Could anyone prohibits any others to do anything with their digital media? Due to the nature of digital media, it will never possible to fully prevent any replication and modification, and any attempt to do so will fail miserably. On the other hand, it is now possible to digitize many kind of things. Perhaps, in the future, even ourself can be digitized as well.

Maybe we can start rethinking the idea of copyright.
Just maybe............