caricature

funny carricature was made by some unknown trainee during the AK3 training.

girls pic

there is this girl that I had a chance to snap earlier in the day, her name is eva and she's a nice girl. cost me approximately 20 bucks to be able to take her photo. ah well, at least it's worth it. I mean pretty girl are expensive. you need to know that right. so anyway I had created a watermark so you can't copy it and claimed that the picture is yours. I spend money to be able to snap her. so be appreciative.

hey there

as you can see for yourself this blog domain name has changed. it uses http://blog.jacobian.me which is a subdomain from http://jacobian.me. at least the url is still short so that it will be easy to remember.

so anyway below is a machine for drying the laundry. use specifically for towels. very functional for those of you who have a hotel which uses so many towels for the guests
for more info, then go here

Engineering is the best major

if you want to get a job,then you should major in engineering study. be it in computer,mathematic, pyhsics and etc. as long as you study math and solve many technical problem. this is important because engineering changes the way people think and also many engineers are wanted by many companies. so next time you went to college, always choose engineering for your future.

perihal:

"that employment prospects are dim for liberal-arts majors. Graduates from top engineering schools such as Duke are always in high demand. But PhDs in English from even the most prestigious universities, such as UC-Berkeley, can’t get jobs. The data I presented above were on the background of tech-company founders—those who made the transition into entrepreneurship"
- Engineering vs. Liberal Arts: Who’s Right—Bill or Steve? (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

blackberry's blockage

the upcoming policy that minister tifatul sembiring wanted to implement, i.e blocking all blackberry connection for the reason that RIM did not comply fully with indonesia's regulation. however RIM can provide the filtering for porn access because it was entirely easy to do but the complicated thing is regarding minister tifatul sembiring soliciting interception access of secured data routed through blackberry.this is next to impossible because well frankly, blackberry was made for the secured communication between its users. it uses highly advanced encryption technology that can only be broken by RIM itself.
I think the solution would be to pressure every indonesian people to use android smartphone instead as it's fully complied with all of the ministry's requirement. hahaha....

perihal:

"But that's not going to help with the lawful intercept problem. BlackBerry messages are securely encrypted from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) to the handset, so interception is next to impossible. RIM can place a BES in Indonesia, but anyone running their own BES will bypass that and thus be able to communicate securely."
- Indonesia puts RIM on two-week notice • The Register (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

believe in your convictions

it's impossible to please others, you just can't please everyone on this earth.you need to be true to yourself and don't get affected by other's people criticism.this is that always driven me in making decision. so the moral is to always believed in yourself and make it as your own virtues and this article can't better explained it than I do. :-)

perihal:

"So what have the Kings of Leon done about this criticism? The answer is nothing, they have continued to make the music they love for millions of fans who love it too. Whatever you do you will never please everybody. The important thing is that you have the courage of your convictions and you believe in what you do and say even if others don’t."
- Why Trying to Please Everybody Pleases Nobody (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

violent clashes

the things that happening in Egypt especially after the church bombing is worsening.I just can't accept the notion that violent are justified by the due process of religion.this is something that's still dumbstruck me the most.religion should try to make peace as a perpetuity.and strive to make humanity above all else. Trust me, this is similar to what Mahatma Gandhi had said before "victory attained by means of violence is tantamount to a defeat"

perihal:

"the Associated Press reported that a mob of Christians broke into a nearby mosque, throwing books out into the street. On Saturday clashes continued between Christian protesters and police wiedling tear gas."
- Egypt Bombing Raises Fears of Sectarian Bloodshed - TIME (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

american economy

many american corporation are expanding overseas other than in america.this is because of the low purchasing power brought by deep recession happening in the US now.so many of these companies build new plants overseas and hired many foreigners and thus contributing to the hike of american unemployment rate. well can't really blame them, it's much more enticing to expand overseas due to high purchasing power of India, china and indonesian market nowadays. These nation economy are growing and many corporation are salivating over it.

perihal:

""There's a huge difference between what is good for American companies versus what is good for the American economy," says Scott."
- Where are the jobs? For many companies, overseas (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

america in decline

life is getting harder in america now with many people getting unemployed.well I guess the obama's administration didn't bring any great progress whatsoever.but if the american wanted to attribute this recession that they're having now then they should just blamed it on George W.Bush's faults.he's the sole person that fucked up US economy back then.

perihal:

"The piece continues with the sobering assessment that America’s actual unemployment rate isn’t really 10 percent, but close to 20 percent when we factor in the number of people who have stopped looking for work."
- AlterNet: America in Decline: Why Germans Think We're Insane (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

sudan referendum

this is bad though,even sudanese president didn't want to acknowledge the diversity in his country.he thinks islam is the only way of life and other religions shouldn't be accounted for.this brings nothing but suffering to many people in northen sudan.as the southern sudan will likely to secede from the north.and we will have another north sudan and south sudan state just like north korean and south korea in this world.
the separation of state shouldn't be happening just because of religion,and they should know that islamic syariah only brings nothing but the rebellion of those that aren't in favor of it.
well then we should be glad that indonesia is a secular country.

perihal:

""If south Sudan secedes, we will change the constitution and at that time there will be no time to speak of diversity of culture and ethnicity," Bashir told supporters at a rally in the eastern city of Gedaref."
- Omar al-Bashir: northern Sudan will adopt sharia law if country splits | World news | The Guardian (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

wikileaks in depth

Massive news organizations hunt for information and spend billions chasing stories. WikiLeaks puts up a website and people just dump news on them by the truck load. Must suck to be the media now.as wikileaks is getting ahead of them and got more stories to tell.
and now the world is a tad more rational because of wikileaks publication pertaining US sensitive document materials being leaks.

perihal:

"The true importance of Wikileaks -- and the key to understanding the motivations and behavior of its founder -- lies not in the contents of the latest document dump but in the technology that made it possible, which has already shown itself to be a potent weapon to undermine official lies and defend human rights."
- http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/12/the-shameful-attacks-on-julian-assange/67440/ (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

solitary confinement

this is just one long reading material regarding human needs of social interaction and it's effect for lack thereof. erratic behaviour were found in those who don't get along well with people and were locked up in prison's solitary cells.this solitary cells did nothing but harm to the inmates.as a person who deprived of social interaction then he would develop pyhschotic behaviour that had detrimental effect upon that person himself.there's need to be applied a more gentle approach when dealing with criminals other than solitary confinement.
but hell, if the person is a murderer then I guess locking him/her up in a solitary cell is for everyone's benefits

in reference to:

"We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people."
- Is long-term solitary confinement torture? : The New Yorker (view on Google Sidewiki)

amygdala

there is a part in human brain that's called amygdala, its function is to instill fear in human so as to prevent them from any harm, but the dysfunctionality of this organ part in one's brain caused somewhat peculiar result.there is a woman who had her amygdala not functioning properly and thus made her fearless of any perilous events that came in contact with her.now at least we know why some people are so fearful and some of them are fearless.it's all located in their brain and amygdala played a bigger role in causing it.

perihal:

"Instead, she held a snake, pet its scales and touched its tongue. She enjoyed intensely scary horror movies like they were thrilling but fun roller coaster rides. And she revealed through her stories and her diary a lifetime of behaviors that would strike most people as odd and qualify, by all standards, as dangerous."
- The No-Fear Woman (And What Her Brain Reveals) : Discovery News (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

sudan's conflict

the referendum that'll happen in sudan in january next year can be taken as use case where the enactment of islamic syariah fuelled many discontent among non-moslem people namely christian.hence make the south and north sudan fighting each other due to this differences.and now the compromise had been made and there'll be a referendum in which the south sudan can secede from the north sudan where most moslem reside.
I really don't like this though,a country should not separate just because the abomination of islamic law. and also because the government only care toward majority of moslem people that caused the government to only care about muslim by enacting a law based on Quran.islamic law shouldn't be enacted in a country that has diversed religion. because it brings nothing but chaos and rebellion. I really hope other nations can learn of what happened in sudan now when thinking of applying islamic law in one's nation.

perihal:

"The referendum, scheduled for Jan. 9, is the centerpiece of a 2005 peace agreement that ended a 21-year civil war between the Muslim north and the oil-producing south, where Christianity and traditional beliefs dominate. About 2 million people died in the conflict and 4 million fled their homes."
- Southern Sudan Likely to Vote to Secede from North, Presidential Aide Says - Bloomberg (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

Lee Kuan yew's view

a great insight into Lee Kuan Yew history and relationship with other ASEAN countries.singapore had played a great part in the modernisation of south east asian countries.well as a matter of fact singapore is the gateway of all the goods that entered the southeast nation from the west by using freight.his tough ruling for singapore and authocracy by silencing any dissent propelled singapore into one developed nation in this world.one can imagine the irony of having democracy in relation to economic prosperity was quelled by the notion of using authoritarian system to achieve faster economic development.

perihal:

"Granted, in just one generation, Lee built the resource-starved island into a prosperous nation with a capacious mind, strong character, iron will and absolute prudence, and does deserve credit for it. But his ruthless pragmatism and unquestioned belief in Machiavellianism will forever taint his otherwise remarkable achievements."
- Megalomaniac Lee Kuan Yew’s illusions « Dr Ko Ko Gyi’s Blog (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

delicious will be closed

another bad news from yahoo,apart from the massive layoffs, yahoo also planning to shutdown another great web service that I use often. that is delicious, after shutting down geocities a few months back now delicious will share the same fate as geocities. approximately they were 2000 bookmarks I had stored in delicious because this is a free social bookmarking web service. no other great alternative exist except in delicious.so you could say delicious is one of a kind.
so in conclusion yahoo is going nowhere but down now.and takes all of its glory with it.

perihal:

"Yahoo announced internally today that it is closing down Delicious. No date has been given for its closure."
- R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

a letter for yahoo CEO

with the recent layoff happening in yahoo thus compelled some person to make an analysis of what truly happening in yahoo now.also the CEO Carol Bartz choose to not focus solely on flickr,something that I think she should.I mean flickr is a great service for sharing photos.there are many photographer swarming there.but the lack of introduction of new features in flickr also can be attributed to this layoff.I really hope that flickr can be free though.and the limit of only showing 200 photos for free account can be remove.paying $25 for a year is just too much.
ah well,there are many other great alternative for photo sharing site.but flickr had been deeply entrenched in photography's world

perihal:

"But you know what? You haven’t taken the time to really explore the social side of Flickr. Hell, you don’t even have an account yourself on Flickr. One of the most highly visible and trafficked Yahoo properties and you don’t even have an account there. Would it be so hard to have your assistant set up an account for you and post some photos of some mountains from a family vacation two years ago?"
- Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » An Open Letter to Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo Inc. (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

steve jobs' email

now what interesting in this released, wikileaks documented the email exchange between steve jobs and kim jong il, i.e the north korean leader. in which steve jobs harsly rebuke kim jong il's request to get a pre-release apple product for his son.
I mean a dictator rebuking another dictator is just something that fascinated me.this can also be used as a use case that steve jobs had become so influential among world leaders and many of whom deeply admired him.
ah well I need to have an apple product then such as macbook to feels steve jobs' charisma in it. :-)

in reference to:

"He did get a bit wordier in an exchange with North Korean bad boy Kim Jong Il. Kim, aching to get a pre-release iPod touch for his son back in August, wrote to Steve requesting “a favor from one dictator to another.” In this case, Steve doubled the syllable count with a quick “Hell no.”"
- WikiLeaks releases 140,000 emails from Steve Jobs | Scoopertino (view on Google Sidewiki)

history of wikileaks

this can be seen as a background explanation of what truly happening during the creation of wikileaks.very insightful.

now I know why israel never been mentioned in any wikileaks documents.well money can solve everything though.

perihal:

"One independent news source, IndyBay.org, reports that Assange accepted payment from Israel to delete any U.S. diplomatic cables that portray Israel poorly (as if anything could mar its reputation any worse than it already is). The source of this information, however, is Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a former disgruntled employee of WikiLeaks."
- WikiRebels: Swedish docufilm on WikiLeaks chronicles a new form of global resistance (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

stuxnet detrimental effect

iran nuclear facility is in chaos now due to the infection of the worm stuxnet.whoever created this worm must be a hell of expert programmers.one to which I must admire because I am a programmer myself.this event can be taken as a use case of how a programmer can wreak havoc to a country that has sour ties with the US.although judging by the complexity of the virus,I suspect the american must be behind it.after all they the only one who have the utmost technological capabilites in creating something so detrimental such as stuxnet

perihal:

"“Here is their problem. They should throw out every personal computer involved with the nuclear program and start over, but they can’t do that. Moreover, they are completely dependent on outside companies for the construction and maintenance of their nuclear facilities. They should throw out their computers as well. But they can’t,“ he explained. “They will just continually re-infect themselves.”"
- FoxNews.com - Stuxnet Worm Still Out of Control at Iran's Nuclear Sites, Experts Say (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)