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Dot Earth by NYTimes.com

Dot Earth NYTimes
NYTimes.com is known for its blogs. They just launched another blog called “Dot Earth”. This new blog is written by Andrew C. Revkin — a science reporter for The New York Times — and it’s dedicated to examining the growing human impact on the planet’s health.

By 2050 or so, the world population is expected to reach nine billion, essentially adding two Chinas to the number of people alive today. Those billions will be seeking food, water and other resources on a planet where, scientists say, humans are already shaping climate and the web of life. In Dot Earth, reporter Andrew C. Revkin examines efforts to balance human affairs with the planet’s limits. Supported in part by a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Mr. Revkin tracks relevant news from suburbia to Siberia, and conducts an interactive exploration of trends and ideas with readers and experts. (source)

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Google Supports IMAP

After giving more storage for its Gmail users (I have 4 Gb of storage right now), Google starts to give IMAP support. Google Help Center already mentioned about Supported IMAP Client List. But it seems that not all accounts got this feature. I checked both in my Gmail and Google Apps, I still haven’t got the options to enable the IMAP settings, only POP.
Why is IMAP integration a good thing for Gmail?

POP was a stepping stone, but IMAP pushes Gmails benefits over the top. With IMAP, users can now access their email via a desktop application like Outlook or Thunderbird, read emails, make changes, delete, and have the changes made across platforms. So if you now log into your Gmail account, the message which you read in Thunderbird, will now be marked accordingly. No more wasting time trying to sift through emails that had already been answered. (source)

Okey, I’ll wait.

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Google Adsense now supports Western Union payment method

Another good news for Google Adsense publishers. Now, there is a new alternative to get Google Adsense payment by using Western Union service.
Google Adsense blog reported:

We’re excited to tell you that we’re offering a new payment method for some countries. If you’re located in Argentina, Chile, China (Mainland), Colombia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, or Romania, you can now sign up for Western Union Quick Cash, a new form of payment that lets you receive your AdSense payments in cash using the worldwide Western Union money transfer service. Payments will be available for pickup at your local Western Union agent the day after they are issued, according to our normal payment schedule.

This feature is not yet available for Indonesian Adsense publisher, I believe more countries will be supported later. I hope… :)

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Merry Christmas

I want to say Merry Christmas to everybody who celebrates Christmas day. May the joy and happiness always be with you… everyday.
Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast, Maligayan Pasko!, Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket (what is it?)

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Three-year-old buys pink convertible on Internet

Jack’s mother told the BBC she had left her password for the eBay auction site in her computer and her son used the “buy it now” option to complete the purchase. Purchasing what? A pink car: 9,000 pounds ($17,000). Hohoho! (News from Reuters)

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Web statistics script for this site

I use some scripts to gain information about the site statisics. The first one is Shaun Inman’s Shortstat, and the second one is refer script by Textism. About the first, Thalia mentioned something about the database rows. Yes, you’re right Thalia. Well, this is how I use those scripts.

Easy-to-read statistics

Shaun Inman’s Shortstats gives me something easy to read. And, it is quite complete. I can have these information: total hits, unique visitors, browsers, referers, search strings, and visitors’ country origins. When I write this, there are thousands of rows in my statistics table.

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It is more about attitude

Some Indonesians bloggers has interesting topics I think. First about a guy named Roy Suryo. And the next thing about Anne Ahira.

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Quoted and plugged

Just quoted from what I saw, I read, and I feel.

  • I say, “I do not like target="_blank"
  • Benny Chandra’s Refresh.
  • Go to Web Page Analyzer, and put http://jkt1.detik.com/index.htm … Now, I know what the browsers should load.
  • Nien is back, and Thara too!
  • Learning CSS by Asterisk* (Got the link via Avianto)
  • Face the RTFM. It is up to you to have Fvcking, Funny, and/or Favourite. It is good not only for your health, but others’ too.
  • When I type this, WDCREEZZ.COM has 515 members.
  • We (Avianto, Iamal and I) talked about this sentence in bahasa Indonesia, “Mayat itu mengaku.“. Yes, we talked about Bahasa Indonesia last night. If “mengaku” means “confess / making a confession”, it will be so scary. (Heeee… saya mayat loh)
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Indonesia Independence Day

MERDEKA!!! Today, August 17th, 2003, Indonesia celebrates its 58th anniversary. Happy birthday, Indonesia. Related to this day, I have set a place where people can tell their opinion about Indonesia. Thank you Sony for sharing the idea. Now, you can see the result! Some words been posted at Sony’s, and you can also see some pekik on my site. Thank you for sharing your opinion Merdeka!!!

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I got bad fever

Yesterday, I got a very bad fever. And it was terrible and bad day. The day before, I had 18 hour sleeping. Haha! *Lazy Thomas!* So, I woke up so early in the morning, at 4 AM. Errghh after that, I couldn’t go back to bed. At 5 AM, I took a bath. And when I told this to my friends they said, “Really?” hahaha it seems I’m too lazy to take a bath. Hydrophobia? Hahahaha! Well, the cocroach doesn’t take a bath every day, but it’s clean.

And last night, I couldn’t take a rest. I woke up every hour. I went to bed (at Itok’s) around 2 AM, and I woke up at 7 when my cellphone alarm rang. After that, I work with some of my sites. Deadline. Deadline.

Around 10, I went to internet station, and checked my site, and surprise!!! bandwidth Limit Exceeded. Errgh again? Oh no. Once, my friend said, “Too many visitors is not good for your bandwidth.” Hahah.. I think he’s right. But that’s not the point. I checked the bandwidth, and it was 728,xxx Mb. Hey! The bandwidth should be 2 Gb. Errghh Not long after that, I contacted my webhost, and the problem was fixed. :) My site run again.

So, for some people hosted at warnadunia.net, if you read this post, please take a note:

On the next August, I have to renew my domain, warnadunia.net, and I have to pay the host. Once again, I’m not rich, but I do want to help you. At least you can make site, learning new things, etc. But, considering the how much it will cost, I can’t handle it myself. I know, what you experince is that you have your subdomains, you have your site run, etc. But, I’m not sure if you know what I have to do to make warnadunia.net keeps running. So, when I renew my account, it won’t be this big, it will be smaller. And I had to remove some subdomains. *sorry, . so sorry I don’t want to, but I have to.* Except, there is a person who buys me a webhost account. *dreaming wake up Thomas!*
The community and knowledge should run, but it needs many things. A website has to run, but it needs webhost. *sigh* If I can’t renew my account, I think I will keep the domain, backup all files and databases, and moving to another places. Anyone want to host host me?
I also talked to William, and still around Ensiklonesia, now the Ensiklonesia users are increasing (quite rapid?). Hhehe.. how many users there, Wil?

He said also about Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards. Hehe.. want the book too? I also want that. Anyone want to buy us? Hehehe Probably, when I have that book, I will write like what Matt has on his site when the Mailman is Back.

Well about book, I don’t know why is it so difficult to have such book in Indonesia? Not even in the library. The book publish ten years ago seems to be difficult to find. Erggh book is knowledge. But, without book, we still gain knowledge right? Hehehe But if there is someone wants to buy me Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards, I’ll be one of the happiest creature in the universe. ROFL.

Yeah, I’m just a dreamer I guess. Oh, Matt, I’m still working on the little article and tutorial, and hope when I finish it, I’m also come with some new buttons.

Well, I notice, that Indonesian WordPress users are getting greater and greater. Go! Go! Go! ** I also made some changes on WP files, translating it into Bahasa Indonesia! hahaha is it possible? I hope. So, unofficial release of WordPress in Bahasa Indonesia. When my friend wanted to install it, he asked me, and when I tell him in Bahasa Indonesia, he said, “Cuman kayak gitu? (Just like that?)” See, the problem is not the difficulty level, but the languages.**

Ergghh.. I think I have to stop typing now. Have a nice day, and it’s time to take a bath.