Information overload and procrastination

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testing a text editor called the “Dark room”

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wow. what a great concept. feels like i am actually all alone with my mind. especially with ‘frozen twilight’ by God is an Astronaut playing at the background. lol.
anyway….

i think i am addicted to knowledge. not exactly “obtaining” knowledge, but rather “collecting” knowledge.

i love the internet because it’s so easy to get practically ANY information i want. and i can get them NOW.
i could go from one subject to another, just browsing around and downloading stuff to my computer for ‘later viewing’ because i don’t have an always-on internet connection.

But what i said to be ‘later viewing’ most probably means ‘never’. lol.

I will end up with a huge pile of files that I probably can never finish reading for the rest of my life.

I only collect stuff on subjects that interest me. Unfortunately (naah.. can’t really say it. i enjoy it very much), what i like is internet and technology-related material.

and those are ABUNDANT here on the web. not to mention the constant growth and innovation that are just yummy for geeks’ adrenaline.

and it’s addicting.

One sample:
i was in the middle of coding a web project when I decided that I am going to implement a specific feature. i jumped online to get some inspiration, best practices and common issues attached to the feature.

I also browse for reusable codes for me to adapt to my project. Perhaps from some open source projects repositories or similar projects where i can guess and adapt the algorithm / method to my project.

I am just lazy, thinking:
“heck, why should i solve and code something from scratch just because i can? there MUST be someone out there who had thought of the same problem and solved it into some type of elegant and reusable code. If I’m lucky, I can even get some friendly advice and reference on the feature.”

One problem leads to the other, one code snippet refers to another, one blog post links to 10 other, i will find myself ’stuck’ online, browsing and harvesting delicious solutions — solutions for problems i don’t actually have at the first place, the one that led me online.

I used to like to think of it as a learning curve, saying things like ‘well, at least now I know what to do when THAT happens’, or “these stuff will be useful someday, good to learn them now”

But it is _distracting_ and i ended up losing focus on the main project. Then, another day has passed.
self-discipline, come here will ya?

June 10, 2008 | Filed Under Web, good4themind, personal, self-dev | Leave a Comment 

Si om tega….. hiks hiks..

Omygoodd…. the baby is soooo cuuuteeee……

lol.

May 31, 2008 | Filed Under Fun stuff, Web | Leave a Comment 

Google Adsense mulai menerima third-party ads

Tengah malam gw menerima email dari Google Adsense, isinya menyampaikan bahwa skrg selain menerbitkan iklan dari Adwords, Adsense akan mulai menerbitkan iklan dari partner2 yang telah approved.

Sementara ini, Adsense baru akan menerima iklan berbahasa Inggris, dan tidak menutup kemungkinan menerbitkan iklan dalam bahasa lain di masa depan. Tapi Bahasa Indonesia…… kapan ya? :p

Trus katanya kalau skrg Anda sudah mengaktifkan penampilan iklan bergambar (bukan hanya text-based), iklan-iklan third-party itu sudah akan aktif di account Anda. Kalau belum mengaktifkan, bisa melalui URL https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9741

Sisanya info standar-standar saja. Utk mengetahui lebih jelas ttg tipe iklan baru ini, Google memberikan URL http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/05/introducing-third-party-ads-on-google.html

Mudah2an infonya bermanfaat.

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 Berikut announcementnya:

Greetings from Google!

We’re happy to announce that the Google content network now
accepts display ads served from qualified third-party vendors.
During this initial release, only ads in English are eligible,
although we look forward to offering more options in the future.

By accepting third-party ads, we can attract a greater variety of
advertising on the Google content network, which we believe will
result over time in increased revenue for publishers and more
relevant advertising for end users.

If you’re currently opted in to image ads, you’re already able to
receive third-party ads. If not, you can enable image ads to start
receiving third-party ads immediately. (Learn how to enable image
ads at
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9741.)

If you choose to allow third-party ads on your site, please update
your privacy policy to inform your visitors that third-party
vendors may serve ads on your site. Please also provide links to
these vendor websites and inform your users that they may opt out
of cookies (if the vendor offers this capability). For more
information about updating your policies, visit
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=94150.

You’ll continue to have full control over which ads appear on your
site with tools like competitive ad filtering and the Ad Review
Center. Also, only advertisers with whom we have proven
relationships and who’ve clearly demonstrated commitments to our
quality standards may participate in this program. Our policies
governing ad content and formatting remain unchanged.

To learn more about third-party ads, please visit our blog post at
http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/05/introducing-third-party-ads-on-google.html
and our FAQ at
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=14535.
If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to contact us at
adsense-support@google.com.

May 23, 2008 | Filed Under Web, monetization | 2 Comments 

Duffy – I am Duffy

Duffy – 2008 – I Am Duffy

Parent Directory 09-Apr-2008 21:52 -
01 – Mercy.mp3 09-Apr-2008 21:34 6.0M
02 – Rockferry.mp3 09-Apr-2008 21:34 6.8M
03 – Warwick Avenue.mp3 09-Apr-2008 21:35 6.1M
04 – Serious.mp3 09-Apr-2008 21:36 6.8M
05 – Distant Dreamer..> 09-Apr-2008 21:37 8.2M
06 – Oh Boy.mp3 09-Apr-2008 21:38 4.0M
07 – Tomorrow.mp3 09-Apr-2008 21:39 5.1M
08 – Mercy (Dunproof..> 09-Apr-2008 21:40 8.3M
09 – Breaking My Own..> 09-Apr-2008 21:41 6.4M

Gw gak gitu yakin ini album yang mana. Menurut wikipedia dia baru rilis 1 album, Rockferry dan 3 single. Gw match2in track listingnya tp gak ada yg match. Apa special edition gitu ya? UK version or something?

Anyway, enjoy.

May 8, 2008 | Filed Under freebies, recently downloaded | 5 Comments 

Explosions in the sky – Friday Night Lights [2004]

More soothing, and gets me into the ‘flow’. But the server is soooooo sloww… around 2 kb/s. lol.

http://ftp.ksv.com.ua/media2/music/Explosions%20In%20The%20Sky/2004%20-%20Friday%20Night%20Lights/

May 8, 2008 | Filed Under recently downloaded | Leave a Comment 

Remove ‘www’ from URL with mod_rewrite (SEO trick)

Finally found the exact code to put in the .htaccess file to remove the ‘www’ prefix on my domain. Because redirecting is not enough. Now the URL looks so much prettier.

Why bother? Because it has SEO-love and link rank effect.

< I f M o d u l e m o d _ r e w r i t e . c >
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
< / I f M o d u l e >

Note: Please remove the extra spaces on the opening and closing IfModule statement. Had to do it to make it display correctly on Wordpress.

May 6, 2008 | Filed Under Web, web-dev | 2 Comments 

How to be focussed at work a.k.a. “distracted by shining objects”

I feel that i lack focus.

From my initial guess and amateur psychoanalyses :p, I attribute my lack of focus and ocassional frustration to two things:
Read more

May 5, 2008 | Filed Under Web, personal, self-dev, web design, web-dev | 2 Comments 

[learning] CSS positioning

Several things I learn today about CSS positioning:
1.  float removes the element from natural flow (how the markup was structured)
2. clear drags the layout back from all the ‘floating’ going around (usually for footer).
3. clear doesn’t apply to inline elements
4. using negative margins

May 4, 2008 | Filed Under web design, web-dev | Leave a Comment 

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