Sharpening my mandarin skill
Started a new blog yesterday on wordpress.com called “Xin Vocab” (http://XinVocab.wordpress.com/). ‘Xin’ (pronounced as in “to lie is to sin“) means “new”, and ‘Vocab’, from ‘vocabularies’.
I decided to start the blog to sharpen my rusty Mandarin. I notice that my current difficulties are mostly in vocabularies. In a sense that I have a solid grasp of the grammar, but stumbled upon unfamiliar terms.
It was like this when I was watching news broadcast on a Chinese TV station: “Our president (just quoting the news, my actual president is SBY, lol), Hu Jintao held a meeting with the prime minister to discuss about blah3.. due to emerging economic crisis that has affected the People’s Republic of China. The result of the meeting will be blah3 to be discussed further on blah blah blah.”
Basically, I get the main point, the person who does the action, the action itself, and the whole structure of the news, but lose most of the meaty details.
It’s like “XXX does XXX to XXX because XXX”,
????
lol. yeah anyhow, I have made commitment to stop procrastinating and being lazy and start to grab some exceprts from news, articles, paragraphs each day and really look it up, really understand and digest the meaning. I hope I can increase my working vocabularies in Mandarin because I don’t want to let my native tongue go to waste like that.
Hope it helps you learn Mandarin too. Let’s chat! hai yaa….
Jasa pembuatan CV dan surat lamaran
Yak, di sini gw akan memulai menawarkan jasa itu. Sudah lama sih konsep ini di kepala, dan akhirnya gw memutuskan untuk ’stop planning and just do it!’. Memang, tidak tahu awalnya, mau mulai dari mana. Tapi it’s gotta start somewhere right?
website coming soon. stay tuned.
sama seperti karir Anda, it’s gotta start somewhere, and I will make sure that you end up somewhere GOOD.
[mindump] multitasking, lack focus, ADD! lol
multitasking, lack focus, ADD! lol
duh gw bener2 ADD nih, wkwkwk… ADD yang muncul justru pas udah gede, ADD yg diciptakan sendiri. I just can’t slow down, must be active all the time. i am active but not productive.
analysis paralysis pt.2 (mindump)
mencari jalan paling mudah, paling cepat, paling handal, dan paling menguntungkan untuk maintenance jangka panjangnya
Akhirnya? over engineering. think too much, cannot make decision.
I have told myself over and over again, “I cannot have ALL information I need and then make the BEST decision”
it.is.okay.to.make.mistakes
Flownya kira-kira seperti ini:
terlalu banyak ide dan jalan yang bisa dipilih -> bingung memutuskan -> stress -> merasa tidak produktif
Ibaratnya supir taksi yang hapal mati jalanan jakarta, jalan besar, alternatif, tikus2, pintas, dan jalan2 lainnya.
Penumpang A masuk ke taksinya, minta diantar ke senen. Dalam kepala si supir taksi yang menderita analysis paralysis terjadi dialog spt ini:
“senen yah, hmmm… itu bisa lewat xxx, tp muter dikit. kalo dari arah yyy bisa langsung, agak macet sih. apa lewat abc ya? lebih jauh tapi lancar. ah, bensin udah segini lagi. apa gw isi dulu? pom bensin di deket mana ya yang enak. duh kalo gw ke pom bensin yg itu, gw harus lewat zzz dong. dari situ bisa tembus ke xxx sih. gimana enaknya ya?”
Doeehhh, cape deee….. just pick one and get going already!
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it is enough just to feel good. that makes all the difference
it’s all in my head. what i radiate
assertivity, brevity, clarity
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one essential skill for programmers are recognizing and understanding patterns in applications and systems, and then knowing where to find them again when he needs to implement his own version.
cause that’s what we do, basically. copy, paste, and adjust.
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gonna set up an online store. wpmu, i think. easy to hack. easy to expand.
came across a blog post about execution of ideas. i can add one more characteristic to my list:
“over engineering”
to save time in the future. over engineering, spending too much time planning for things that might not even happen
anyway, wordpress is one heck of a software. well written, good code architecture. clean, pretty good documentation
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discovered gossip girl on TV7 :p. The actor who plays nate is smokin hot. lol
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ah duuh, cerpenista keluarrrr. i want to create thaat….. :p
itulah, salah satu manfestasi ‘mere ideas are frickin worthless’, haaahaha…. implement! release early, release often.
huh.
uuuhhhhh
hahaha good lesson. success is not just a binary switch away, ideas are not everything. Yet it is not also about execution. Ten people might have the same idea, 3 might have pursued it, and perhaps only one will succeed. pursue/not. it’s not that simple
trend-spotting sept 08
Web startups are trying to “bring it all together”. Aggregators, livefeeds, one page solution, centralized “dashboards”.
CodeIgniter is particularly popular in Indonesia. Specific mindset?
growing numbers of bloggers, with motives ranging from practicing their English, to learning web programming.
What I notice is that newbies will blog about their learning adventure, while experienced programmers will blog about more general issues, daily life, managing codes, career as programmer, their wishes, etc.
Default password for Mantis bug tracker
Tried Mantis bugtracker today, and got stuck after installation because I don’t know the default password for the ‘administrator’ account. The Mantis release did not even include an offline documentation about it. Did a little googling, found out that the default password is: “root”
All working now.
In the search, stumbled upon a security-related site, http://cirt.net. Why? Because it contains a subpage with default passwords for a pretty long list of computer product vendors (quoted:374 vendors, 1715 passwords). It also has a web scanner product, Nikto, that can scan for vulnerability etc. Will give it a try.
what is the minimal permission needed to install wordpress? (create wp-config file)
what is the minimal permission needed to install wordpress? (create wp-config file)
775
after that, it is safe to revert back to 755
if 644, cannot even open / execute
Cara menambahkan subdomain dengan cpanel
Tujuan
Dari domain seperti ini: hantuinternet.com
Anda ingin membuat subdomain seperti ini:
- blog.hantuinternet.com
- free.hantuinternet.com
- bla3.hantuinternet.com
Requirement / yg di-cover:
- Membuat subdomain dengan menggunakan CPanel
- Anda memiliki hak akses pada account hosting dan control panel tersebut.
- Paket hosting anda mendukung pembuatan subdomain (lihat di sisi seperti ini:)
Cara:
Tanpa banyak basa basi, pertama-tama pilih menu subdomain:
Nanti anda akan dibawa ke halaman seperti ini:
Anda bisa langsung mengisi kotak dengan nama subdomain yang diinginkan. Misalnya blog, free atau bla3.
Nama folder di kotak document root isinya tidak harus sama dengan nama subdomain. Folder inilah yang akan menampung file-file website kita, dan dapat diakses seperti biasa melalui menu File Manager > public_html > namafolder.
Tutorial berikut2nya:
- mod rewrite dan htaccess -> tukang rapiin URL.
- Cara menggunakan satu account hosting untuk beberapa domain (add-on domain).