Opinion

Notes on Zotero

2011-06-02T00:04:00.000-07:00

This afternoon when I was logging into my lab computer, my Firefox was crashed. I restarted it, and I found my Zotero could not show my data in its all panels: both in collection and in main entry panel. All were blank. I then created a new Firefox profile and copy my Zotero data to a new space and I connected this new copy to my Zotero installed in the new Firefox profile. After entering my DAV server which is in box.net, I could not connect to it. The error message was related to certificate or what, I forgot. But I knew, my dav server was ok, because when I browsed it via the browser, I could connect via my account. I repeated by creating another new Firefox profile, it gave the same result.

I Googled and, after quite a long hour, I got another advice to restart the computer. I restarted the computer, and open my old Firefox profile, and it worked. Zotero worked again.

It seems this trouble relates to my networked computer, right? In my "Local Area Connection" status, Number of bytes in sent and received activity grows very fast, and I still don't know the work around of this anomaly. But when I have spare time in the future, I will restore my system to my old copy of the windows system that I have the backup for it. I hope doing this may recover this problem. But as usual, before restoring to old version, I will need to back-up my troubled system. I use free version of Macrium Reflect to do these jobs.

Improving storytelling skills in the age of fourties

2011-05-31T00:59:00.000-07:00

Improving storytelling skills in the age of forties

This is what emerge from my mind because, historically, I've been categorized by my environment, unfortunately forced to believe this, that I am an introvert. Seeing many benefits of story telling (Fawcet, 2011), I am forced to renew and change my current belief. I need to change my self from an introvert man (characterized as a good listener, telling only few words) into a well accepted storyteller.

The benefits (strengths) include:

in few words, much information sent
device to increase memory
meaning maker, theory builder enhancer
experience and context to share

But how to do this? Is it possible for me to do this? As long as you believe another formula that below the sky there is nothing impossible, you will be able to become a good storyteller. Your capability grows as you practice. You can practice in your spare time when you are in contact with your friend(s). In each day, prepare and develop a simple story that you want to share with your friend(s). Whenever the opportunity comes out, start to find time slot to tell your prepared story.

Keep practicing because practice makes perfect.

Fawcett, S. E., & Fawcett, A. M. (2011). The “Living” Case: Structuring Storytelling to Increase Student Interest, Interaction, and Learning. Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 9(2), 287-298. doi:10.1111/j.1540-4609.2011.00307.x

Yahoo! Mail Infinite Loading Folder Phenonenon of New Yahoo Web Mail Interface

2011-04-21T00:01:00.000-07:00

During some last few days, I've been experiencing difficulty in accessing Yahoo! Mail. My Yahoo Mail is a free account. I've been registered to Yahoo Mail far longer time before Google Mail.

When I want to open a folder, sometimes Inbox folder, I got infinite loop of Loading Folder message like the one in the image picture attached with this blog. If this phenomena continue to persist, then this will be my another evident for judging that Yahoo! Mail quality is far behind the mail provided by Google.

How to overcome loading folder trouble? To date I still cannot find any trick in the Internet. I think this phenomenon is an internal defect and a default behaviour of my current yahoo mail interface. (Please, the interface I use is not yahoo classic interface but the new one).

The experience with this trouble happened not only in my Chrome browser, but also in my Internet Explorer browser. Has anyone experience this in Mozilla Firefox browser?

Pro XL kartu pra bayar ku yang suka hangus

2011-04-16T18:36:00.000-07:00

Kartu prabayar pertama yang pernah aku miliki adalah Simpati. Aku masih ingat, nomorku adalah 081 227 28821. Nomor cantik bukan? Tapi tahukah Anda saya pernah kelupaan, dan ingatnya pas H+ 1 dari hari kehangusan kartuku. Karena saldoku ada 1 jutaan, maklum waktu itu nominal isi ulang minimal adalah 100ribuan dan aku jarang telepon, aku komplain ke kantor gerai grapari terdekat. Dia bilang apa? Yang hangus ya hangus, nomor tidak bisa direkoveri. Dia ajukan alternatif bisa tapi harus migrasi ke pasca bayar. Aku tak mau, hanguslah nomorku beserta pulsanya.

Setelah itu aku beralih ke Pro XL. Nomor pertama ku di Pro XL adalah 081 75 49 13 49. Lama aku pakai nomor itu, dan aku juga mengalami kelengahan, hanguslah nomorku itu. Hangusnya nomor ini terjadi di Taiwan.

Setelah itu aku beli pro xl lagi mengingat pro xl bekerja sama dengan chunghua telecom taiwan, dan bisa aktif di sini untuk menerima sms. Aku sudah kehangusan setidaknya 3 kali.

Usut punya usut, ternyata Pro XL (dan juga SIMPATI) sangat tidak melindungi konsumen dalam mencegah kehagusan. Pro XL terakhir saya yang hangus masuk masa tenggang pada tanggal 24 Maret 2011. Saya masih bisa mengecek info ini dengan memerintahkan *123#. Asumsi saya, karena masuk masa tenggang 24 Maret, kartu itu akan hangus pada bulan berikutnya. Eee... apa yang terjadi, sekitar empat hari yang lalu (sekarang 17 april), kartu itu sudah tidak bisa register ke bts. Ho ho ho.....?

Kok gitu ya? Mengapa perusahaan Pro XL tidak mengirimkan SMS notifikasi bahwa kartu akan hangus pada tanggal tertentu? Saldoku tidak banyak sih sekitar 35ribuan, tapi kalau PRO XL mau mengirim SMS pemberitahuan kapan hangusnya, aku tentu bisa minta tolong orang di rumah untuk mengisi ulang. Ya, lagi-lagi memang dasar PRO XL selain dia berbisnis pulsa ternyata dia juga berbisnis jualan keping sim card. Dia suka kalau kartu pelanggannya hangus....

Anehnya konten-konten iklan suka masuk ke kartuku via SMS. Lha kok, mengirim pemberitahuan bahwa kartu akan hangus pada tanggan anu, kok enggak mau? Lucunya juga ternyata, masa tenggang kartu pro xl tidak sebulan tapi kurang dari sebulan. Ini yang menjadikan saya salah berasumsi.

http://rd.web.id is up and running

2011-02-16T20:53:00.000-08:00

Yes, a few days ago I've registered to 1free.ws to host http://rd.web.id. And it is now up and running. I use pmwiki to manage my contents. This is another place for my notetaking that is accessible by my unique URL.

The contents is still empty but it will grow as time goes. I will use it for my central repository of things that I published scattered around the internet. Previously I use nur.uni.cc but later the hosting was freezed and I can no longer edit anything there.

Ticket Reservation Data Template

2010-12-08T08:01:00.001-08:00

What I do is not what ticket agents do. I just help my friends who have no card so they can’t buy online. I don’t make any commission what so ever. I just pure help them. I cannot guarantee that I can purchase all tickets you order for various connecting flights. In case I only can buy incomplete flight/flights that you want, you cannot demand me to be responsible about this. Upon purchased, any further complains need to go directly to the related aviation company. Once again, I just help in purchasing process. In this case, you must also agree that any risk of money lost due to my online ticket purchasing activity for you should be on your responsibility. But generally so far, most orders were successful.
Please provide this data for each flight:

Roundtrip or One way?
Flight number (if round trip, please specify depart flight and return flight number)
Date (if roundtrip, please specify Depart date and Return date)
From City (and time hh:mm) to City (and time hh:mm)
If round trip: From City (and time hh:mm) to City (and time:hhmm)
First Name
Last Name
Date of Birth
Passport No
Passport Expire date
Passport Issuing Country
Baggage size
Insurance (yes/no?)
Meal (yes/no?) if yes what meal?
Your Address
Your Email
Your phone number
Others (please specify)

Total Cost for each flight: ………. (you can get this number when you do complete simulation [up to credit card number entry stage] on online ticket ordering)
Grand Total Cost: ……… (I need this number so that I can check my available balance.)

===
Selain itu, Anda harus setuju kalau membeli tiket online itu mengandung risiko (yang Anda harus bersedia menanggung semua risiko itu, meskipun saya yang membantu membayarkannya). Risiko itu antara lain:

tidak selalu berhasil. Kadang kita kena reject.
bisa jadi ingin beli dua tiket, hanya berhasil satu tiket
bisa jadi ingin beli dua tiket, yang satu sudah berhasil dipesan tapi tiket yang satunya lagi saat mau dipesan, harganya naik drastis. [dan setiap kenaikan harga dari harga yang kita lihat sebelumnya, akan saya konfirmasikan ke Anda sebelum saya berani untuk membelikannya.]
tiket yang mau kita beli, sewaktu-waktu harganya naik [ini pun akan saya konfirmasikan, sebelum saya membelinya]
ngisi formulirnya kadang merepotkan, terutama kalau harus diulang-ulang karena faktor ketidakberhasilan tadi
(dan risiko-risiko lain yang belum saya ketahui)

AirAsia new Online Payment System, is it good?

2010-11-16T20:40:00.001-08:00

AirAsia Online Ticket Payment System is better than before because it now includes AJAX system into it. We can do login in the middle of buying ticket process without destructing our previos data. Time to fill form may decrease. This is also benefited from our personal data saved in the server.

However, because AirAsia offers multi node flights, a customer often buy ticket more than one flights at a time! In this case, AirAsia Online Payment System is very bad. I will tell you, why it is bad then.

I and my friends often have a nigthmare experience regarding this, especially when buying tickets for other person. The bad experience is, for example, like this. Suppose my friend want me to buy 2 tickets. One ticket is from Taipei to Kualalumpur and another ticket is from Kualalumpur to Banda Aceh. In current AirAsia Online Payment System what we do is like this. First, we choose flight, select flight, check out, and buy with our card. If we succeed, then we get the ticket and go to buy another ticket. Next, we do the same thing for the ticket of our next flight. A system failure is like this: we only succeed in buying only one ticket! And this is real experience. I had experience on this and my friends also!

Why this is a frustating experience? When we succeed in buying the first ticket and fail to buy another, then we usually repeat the process (steps) of buying the fail ticket many times. And this requiring us to enter data into form. This may take our hours of time because we may try by using various browsers, such as chrome, firefox, and internet explorer expecting to succeed. So, when this case occurs, the system definitely wastes our time!

Why the system developer of AirAsia Online Ticket Payment System does not think like when we buy various items at a supermarket? When we want to buy three items, eg A, B and C, what we do is not go into the store, get item A, and exit via a casheer, pay it, and go out; and enter again to get item B, and exit via a casheer, and pay it, and go out; and enter again to get item C, and exit via a casheer, and pay it, and go out; and done. This is an extremely abnormal work flow to waste customer time and energy! And this is what AirAsia Online Ticket Payment System currently do with its online payment system. There will be unnecassary repetition of form filling (in the case of buying more than one ticket for other person), and there will be also much more work to do (and time to spend) in case of not succeeding in buying all of them.

Instead, what we normally do is: collect item A, item B, and item C, and exit via a casheer, and pay the total amount, and go out and done! If AirAsia want to become a normal Online Payment System, then it should do like this. For example, if I want to buy two tickets for different flights, then I should be able to first get ticket A, then get ticket B, then check out, then pay with card at once the total amount of the two tickets, then (not done or) done.

Or, further improvement may be like this: it is the fact that we can go from Taipei to Yogyakarta using two tickets of Airasia. To make our customer happy in buying via online method, Airasia can just simplify the process by providing this choice. We should be able to choose from “From” field, Taipei, and from “To” field, Yogyakarta; and submit, and ‘wow!’, we get the flights information options that can be chosen at once, and paid with card at once.

I am waiting for the improvement of AirAsia Online Ticket Payment System ! (writer: Nurkhamid)

[additional remarks:]

Current system may create half success of for a customer (and thus unsafe feeling for her). For example, a customer want to fly from Taipei to Yogyakarta. She must buy two tickets: one from Taipei to Kualalumpur, another one from Kualalumpur to Yogyakarta. When she buy the tickets via current online system, she may experience one of these four possibilities: (1) 100% success, if she got two tickets, (2) / (3) 50% success if she got either TPE-KUL ticket or KUL-JOG ticket, (4) 100% unsuccess, if she both fails from getting both tickets. When a customer experiences case #(2) OR #(3), the ticket bought will be of no use, because her final destination is Yogyakarta.

In the eye of a customer, a system with this behavior is not good. A customer only need fewer possibilities: (1) 100% success, or (2) 100% failure. If case (1) occurs, she will fly with AirAsia, and if case (2) occurs, she will try alternative route from other flight companies. And once again this will be possible if the company is willing to change the flow of its current online ticket buying system as I suggest above.

Access Restricted by netSAFE Indosat

2010-09-03T08:47:00.001-07:00

This message is funny because I got the message from opening a normal site containing no pornographic contents. The site is a weblog for an important national product. The product is extra virgin coconut oil product, Healthy Co.

It is good for Indosat to block sites that are dangerous for our young generation. But the side effect that the blocking mechanism also block good and useful sites makes this kind of access restriction a somewhat disadvantage.

How to open http://vco.uni.cc site that is banned by Indosat with its netSAFE product? One way is by using anonymous browsing services, such as anonimouse.org, like this: http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://vco.uni.cc/healthyco/

You may find many anonymous browsing services by Google-ing.

The Power of Procrastinating

2010-08-24T00:21:00.001-07:00

Everybody knows that procrastination is bad thing. This habit makes people unsuccessful in obtaining their dreams. It makes people even more stressfull, feel unlucky and noot good.

How about procrastinating by design? We purposefully procrastinate in order to get more insight about a problem. It is a litte bit similar to delay. Deciding something too hurry is often a mistake also. Wrong decision may arise from this.

Our natural inclination also likes to procrastinate. So that is why we sometime need to program ourself to procrastinate purposefully. Procrastinating itself, I think, is neutral. But the effects coming from this that make us unhappy. When we dare to accept all consequences arising from our intended procrastination, we will no longer regard procrastination as our enemy but instead we will regard it as our best friend in making ourselves become more relaxed, enjoying life, and respecting our nature as it is.

We need not to blame on procrastination. Correct view of procrastination may beneficial for us. Procrastination may emit creativity, innovation, and great thinking never previously thought by existing human beings to date.

So, enjoy your life and happy procrastinating!

洪正鈞

Management of Ringback tone of Emome Chunghwa Telecom Mobile, Taiwan

2010-08-20T20:27:00.001-07:00

I was unintentionally subscribed to ringback tone in my mobile number. I realized this when I unintentionally called my own number. I heard a Chinese Mandarin Song. That was why my credit decrease time by time although I did not use my phone.

Realizing this, I tried to contact Chunghua. I went to its website and I found a contact form there.

After filling the form and submitting it, within 24 hours I got a reply like this:

Dear Subscriber:
Thank you for your inquiry.
To unsubscribe ringback tone service, you can dial 700 on your mobile phone, follow the voice instructions. (for English,please press 9) It charges by the second, intra-net rate.
Or you can dial 0800-080-090 (or dial 800 directly from your handset)for customer service to unsubscribe it. Thank you!
Best Regard ,
Customer care department.
Chunghwa Telecom
Mobile business group

I called 700 and did as instructed and now I am unsubscribed to ringtone.

Windows Mobile 6.1، Synchronization cannot be completed successfully

2010-07-10T15:18:00.001-07:00

When I connect my pocket pc smartphone, I got this error message “Synchronization cannot be completed successfully”. I also cannot install any new software with this error message: “ Installation of [your product] was unsuccessful".

Searching Google on the topic for a while, I cannot find any clue about how to solve these problems. But later, I got an idea. I’ve already got backup of my system and data using SPB Backup. This is my capital!

What I did is as follows:

I hard resetted my handset. First, I thought that resetting my system was by pressing a knob inside near the battery. But I only got soft reset. Later I know that the facility is available from menu Start>>Settings>>System>>Master Clear. The handset asked me to enter PIN: 1234 and press the button. And done! After restarting, I got a new (factory default) system, and all my installed software was gone. But I was happy, I still had a backup.
So I restored my system with SPB Backup.
I’ve missed only 3 installed software, but I can install them manually. The most important thing, my other installed software restored.
And another most important thing is that now my WM 6.1 handheld can synchronize and can be installed with new software.

洪正鈞. 台灣.

Sleeping disturbance because of drinking a cup of coffee

2010-06-17T14:06:00.001-07:00

It is not good to drink coffee at night. You may get sleeping disturbance during the night all night until the next morning. It is recommended not to drink coffee in the evening, but in the morning is ok.

What I’ve just experienced today is exactly what I’ve written. At about 8pm, I made a cup of coffee. I went to sleep at 1:30am. But I could not sleep. I had been in bed for about nearly 2 hours and then I got up turning the computer on again.

Now 5am, I write this blog.

I’ve tried to do relaxation but I failed. I yawned for about 5 times, but I failed to sleep.

The day before, I slept in the morning after fajar prayer until about 11am. I slept for about 8 hours.

Vegetable and Egg Fried Rice from 7 Select (7 eleven convenient store, Taiwan) with Halal Ingredients?

2010-06-14T02:08:00.001-07:00

Yes, it seems that the ingredients are Halal. I’ve asked my Taiwanese friend (Sue) to type the ingredients. They are:

白飯 rice
雞蛋 eggs
植物油 vegetable oil
高麗菜 Cabbage
紅蘿蔔 Carrot
青蔥 Scallion
毛豆仁 Soybean during
洋蔥 onion
調味料 Seasoning

I’ve also asked my learning-chinese friend from Indonesia (Sheshe), she said the ingredients are:

bahan-bahannya:
nasi, minyak sayur, telur, wortel, kacang polong, kol, bawang merah, bawang bombay, penyedap rasa
ini nasii goreng vege kok pak, jadi aman hehehe...

So it seems that from the ingredient list, it is halal food.

From this info, Muslim (students) living in Taiwan have another choice for their eating menu. This fried rice packate price in Seven Eleven (7 eleven) convenient store here in Chungli (back gate street of National Central University) is 28 NTD.

How to upload and share big files with ifile.it?

2010-05-26T21:29:00.000-07:00

If we want to send file using email such as gmail and yahoo, we get maximum file limit to 25MB. If we want to send big files, we can use alternative way such as file sharing services. One system is IFILE dot IT.

Use following steps:

First, open the web: http://www.ifile.it

You will find the above page. Click "select files" button. You will see like this:

Choose a file you want to share, then click "Open" button. You will see something like this:

Please click "upload files" button.
---------------------------------------------------------
You will see:

Click text field to the right of "short link", then the link like

http://ifile.it/42fa9p8

will be selected (highlighted). Copy the highlighted link with right click and copy or with CTRL+C keyboard combination.

You can also use full link text field, like:

http://ifile.it/42fa9p8/test-share.txt

Either link is ok for sharing purposes.

After you get the link (either short or full), include (Paste) the link to your email message. Then when your friend get your email, he/she will be able to download the file using the link you've given.

Right keyboard is broken (doesn’t work), how to “replace” it using software?

2010-05-23T01:18:00.001-07:00

My another laptop has another broken keyboard for right. Therefore I cannot manouver my text to the right.

How to overcome this using software? I now can do this using Autohotkey. Just download the software. If you cannot find the URL, just ask Miss Google by yourself. After that, add this line to your autohotkey script. Detailed instruction on how to do this, I will not give it to you, I left it for you as an exercise. Just add this line to your *.ahk script, and activate your autohotkey and the script, and then you will have a keyboard combination to replace right movement.

In my case I use “win left” combination. So if I want to move my cursor to the right, then I just press both “Window” and “left”.

One line script to add is:

#Left::Right

In this case, my Left keyboard is still functional. # is a symbol for “Window” keyboard, a key with Window logo/icon.

My code above reads as a combination of window and left keys equal to right key.

About PPI Taiwan (declared on May 2, 2010 at CYCU, Zhongli/Chungli/Jhongli City, Taouyan County, Taiwan, ROC

2010-05-06T06:08:00.000-07:00

PPI Taiwan stands for Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia di Taiwan (the Association of Indonesian Students in Taiwan; Google Translate in Chinese: 印尼在台灣同學會 ). The organization was declared on May 2, 2010 at Hollistic Hall, CYCU, Zhongli (Chungli / Jhongli) City, Taoyuan County, Taiwan, ROC.
The association has its authorized website created a week before the declaration. The authorized website of PPI Taiwan is still in its beginning of development. It will be improved both in contents and design by recruiting talented heads among its members. Organization of PPI Taiwan will become gluing organization for facilitating constructive cooperation among students on behalf of especially further development and progress of Indonesia and in general world prosperity and peace. The organization does not eliminate and negate the functioning and growth of existing organizations, such as FORMMIT, IPIT, FOSMIT, FOKWIT, etc., available in Taiwan, but it will cooperate in mutual benefit among them.

Webmail Interfaces: Why Google is always better than Yahoo! up to now?

2010-05-03T01:25:00.001-07:00

As a many year user of webmail interfaces of many email providers, I compare two among big free mail providers, Google Mail and Yahoo Mail.

As of this writing, I still prefer and give highest grade to Google compared to Yahoo because of many reasons. These are the reasons:

I can easily search or check unread mail in my Inbox, either by using basic search interface or advanced search interface. You cannot do this in Yahoo. As a user of email, this feature is very important. Not every unread emails need to be opened and read. Most often, by seeng the subject I can decide what to do next with the email. Mostly I just need to check/mark these emails fast (in one click) and with checked mails I can do the next action: either trash/delete or archive them.
I can label each of my email based on my need. Each mail can be given more than one labels. In Yahoo, you cannot do this, you only can move email to different folder.
Google archiving facility make our inbox free of unneeded and distracting old emails. Mail archiving idea with one button is the original idea of webmail interface invented by Google. Later, I found Microsoft (hotmail) also adopt this but the interface is not as good as Google’s.
You can pop your free google emails and you cannot do this in free yahoo email.
Google undo facility. Each of my last action in Google mail can be undone (just in one click). Yahoo doesn’t have this.

But why I still use Yahoo? This is because my friends still use them for Chatting.

(洪正鈞)

Nine Factors to Catch Attention of Our Audience when We Speak in Public

2010-03-12T19:10:00.001-08:00

It is ARPFam CS NHV

Activity: This is the most basic and primitive way to catch attention. People tend to be attracted by movement, baby also does.
Reality: True (real life) story is good ingredient to share a part of your deeper feeling.
Proximity: Nearby. Newer story gets more attention than the older ones. Nearer story in place also does.
Familiarity: ideas, concepts already known. This is in line with a rule stating that good way to tell a story is from known to unknown, from general to specialized.
Conflict: disagreement, fighting, war
Suspense: feeling of uncertainty that the audience has; punch line
Novelty: strange, weird, never heard before, unusual
Humor: being funny. Not goot for the beginning of a story.
the Vital: vital needs: success, money, love.

If you are Muslim then You need to be careful on these Chinese Characters

2010-03-12T18:55:00.001-08:00

The first is … 豬油 … which is lard, or pig oil, or lemak babi or minyak babi. This kind of material is frequently used in Taiwan for food ingridient. So if you buy something fried you need to see the ingridient whether it contains these characters or not.

The romanization of the characters is Zhū yóu

traditional and simplified both have the same symbols

next is 豬肉 .

Zhū ròu

pork or daging babi.

If you are Muslim, then please always be careful before you buy cooked food from convenient stores or supermarkets.

An insurance homepage: America Life Quotes

2010-02-04T17:10:00.000-08:00

Today I visited an insurance homepage from the USA, called America Life Quotes. This web is simply designed using static measurements. If your screen resolution is high enough (typical for current desktops and laptops), you will find the web presented with two blanks in the left and right side.

Functionally, it gives complete description on insurance and its related services. On the right side, you may find an interactive form simulating your insurance objectives. However, personally I like the page, but I think, the footer need to add information about address and contact methods, eg via phone or email, although a contact link is already provided. Remember, a person usually reluctant to click more. They usually only need one click and the important information provided.

The image on the left describe a happy family due to this insurance company. Here is the direct link of the insurance image banner.

Nasrullah SpiritualPReneurship training: very inspiring and motivating

2009-07-26T15:47:00.001-07:00

Yesterday, I invested full day of my time to attend a training. The training was about spiritual entrepreneurship. The venue was at Karita second floor, Jl. C. Simanjuntak, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The seminar was in Bahasa Indonesia. [Actually it was not a training, it was a seminar session. Training session is given separately with the investment of about 2 million rupiah in two days.]

Nasrullah, the trainer in the program presented his skill and expertise in building wealth spiritually. He completely explained basic principles in spiritualPreneurship from outer layers to inner layers.

Outer layers (that can be perceived physically) include Nasib (Destiny), Karakter (character), Kebiasaan (Habit), and Tindakan (Action). Inner layers include Pikiran (Thinking), Perasaan (Feeling), and Motivasi (Motivation).

Still very young in age, Nasrulah, the owner of Orchid Realty and SpiritualPreneurship brands, also showed the secret behind Islamic Financial Freedom in the end part of the seminar.

In sum, the seminar is a quite inspiring and motivating seminar. It is very worth attending. The seminar about spiritualpreneurship is very powerful. The investment (200000 rupiah per participant) is far less amount compared to the big secret that you get.

Gold coins -- stable currency from the age of caliphate

2009-07-02T02:42:00.000-07:00

In the past, caliphate regions and Muslim country used gold as money and medium of exchange. Gold is superior in keeping value of money. Gold coins at that time varies in nominal values.

Now we can also obtain gold coins from many companies, such as Gold Coins Gain dot com. There we can obtain gold coins of various nominal values with various image inside.

About (far infrared) saunas

2009-05-15T18:52:00.000-07:00

Personal far infrared saunas can be bought now. For example when I search this, I found some companies offering these apparatus. However, in Indonesia these luxury things are still not popular. Why? I cannot find local newspaper advertising promoting about these.

Other reason maybe in Indonesia we have already had enough sun. So if we want to do a sauna, we just go outside at noon and let our body heated by natural sun light. Still other reason maybe if there exist this tool is sold then the buyer is rare. The buyer maybe a hotel or an body (and mind?) treatment institutions that want to rent the infrared saunas to their customers. The buyers maybe also very rich people who too much money.

Healthy Co, food supplement extracted from coconut oil

2009-03-10T20:37:00.000-07:00

Healthy Co, food supplement extracted from coconut oil

Tropical coconut oil grown in southern part of Java Island reveal hidden secret. It is Ani Setyopratiwi (Dra., M.Si.) who found a unique method of processing of coconut into vco (virgin coconut oil). The brand name of this product is Healthy Co - Extra Virgin Coconut Oil.

People already found it useful for maintaining their health and fitness. Local people here call the similar product as minyak virjin, minyak virgin, minyak perawan, vco, virco, minyak dara, virjin, ekstra vco, extra vco, or evco. But for this special product by Ani Setyopratiwi (also a faculty member of Universitas Gadjah Mada, FMIPA, Jurusan Kimia/Department of Chemistry), they usually call it as Healthyco.

Healtyco Healthyco has special characteristics not found in other products because it is a research based product by Ani Setyopratiwi and her colleagues and her students. It is manufactured in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Translation made easy

2008-07-07T03:41:00.000-07:00

Translation made easy ...

Why?

Thanks to the Internet that makes translation never easier than before. Anyone anywhere is able to get their documents translated via the Internet from any language into any language.

Look, for example, India translation, with its website readily available via the Internet, it is ready to accept any order from anyone anywhere.

In tight competition, specialization is needed. This is the case for India translation. It specializes for Indian and West Asian Market. It provides Hindi translation, Arabic translation, Farsi translation, etc.

Want to see more? See by yourself at India translation.

Are you waiting for the announcement of Indonesian (DIKTI) scholarship winners?

2008-05-27T20:55:00.000-07:00

Are you waiting for the announcement of Indonesian (DIKTI) scholarship winners?

Nearly 1000 applicants of DIKTI scholarship is now waiting for the announcement of final winners. They should check regularly at DIKTI website (http://ditnaga-dikti.org) to find the announcement published. But from day to day, the announcement has not been occurred yet.

I have a tip in this case, i.e., we should not visit the site every day in order to obtain the announcement. Assuming that the winners are announced via the site, then we can ask for third party service to do this task, i.e., to monitor if the site changes.

Recently I have registered to two free services: the first is www.changealarm.com and the second is www.changedetect.com. What are the differences between these services. The former is easier to register but it has fewer control in setting the monitoring behavior than the latter.

Using this method, we only will visit the site when the site changes. We hope that the change is the addition of the announcement mentioned above. How do we know if the site changes? We know this from the email notification sent by the services.

Shopping Guide for Laptops and their peripherals

2008-05-07T21:41:00.000-07:00

What do you do if you want to buy a new laptop? Most of you may go to the Internet, especially a search engine like Google and enter appropriate keywords in its field and hit enter or just click submit! And voila, you will get hundreds or even thousands or even more links.

Why not go to a more specific place, in this case? Recently, I visited this kind of site offering buyers guide and other information related to laptops. General information and comprehensive guide asked by a person who wants to buy a laptop is readily available there!

Not only that, you can also get other information related to laptop. For example from there, I can browse further to dig information about laptop batteries. In this page, you are then able to go further which battery manufacturer you prefer.

Besides, I can also go to a page about wireless card. In these two cases (batteries and wireless cards), we have facility to search any product that meet our requirement. The search options include prize range and brand name preference.

Moreover, I can go to more generic or related categories, such as computers and software and computers and monitors. In sum, this site is worth visiting for helping us before we buy every thing. (To, view more general categories, please visit its homepage.)

How to stop the flood of junk mails (spam mails) from flowing into our mailboxes?

2008-03-14T00:14:00.000-07:00

How to stop the flood of junk mails (spam mails) from flowing into our mailboxes? Two tricks are available for this.

Do you know that my mailbox and other colleagues' mailboxes have been flooded by junk mails from spammers? In YSU (Yogyakarta State University aka Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, previously known as IKIP Yogyakarta) here we can have a limited space mailbox if we want to have it. The email address will be in the form of @uny.ac.id. The space is usually 10 Megs. This is comparatively far far smaller than the space provided by free email providers, such as Gmail and Yahoo!. With high daily junk mail flow rate, then we will have additional daily job: removing junk mail spam.

How to solve this? Two tricks are available for this case: 1. Use thunderbird mail client; 2. Use Gmail as spam filterer.

Let's begin with the first method. Follow these steps please:

Download and instal Mozilla Thunderbird.
In the case of mail.uny.ac.id mailserver, we are able to create pop and/or imap connection to the server. Choose either or both connection. Each has its own setting to enter in the installed Mozilla Thunderbird.
Connect using imap connection, I prefer this connection because it is able to directly process folder in the server and at the same time we can have a copy folder in our computer. Open the inbox folder, then you begin to train the Thunderbird to identify which emails are spam, which ones are not.
When the data is enough, the Thunderbird will eventually automatically recognize whether an email is spam or not. When it is spam, we can automatically instruct the Thunderbird to move it to junk folder. Of course, we should first create a junk folder.

Now, what about the second method? In this method, we should contact mail administrator for email URL for management purpose. I forgot the URL for the case of YSU, but at that time when I opened the URL, I could command the server to forward the email to my email account at Googgle Mail (Gmail). There, we have an option whether we want to have a copy or not in YSU mail server. In my case, I prefer to have a copy. This way, when I receive an email to my YSU server, the mail is saved in the inbox and at the same time it is also forwarded to my gmail account. Upon arriving at Gmail account, it will be processed with advanced spam mail processor. Nearly all spam mails are recognized by Gmail, although sometimes I found one or two emails which are not spam but categorized as spam by Gmail. In this case, I can also command Gmail not to categorize the email as spam, and Gmail will learn from my help (I think).

In summary, at least there are two tricks of countering the flood of junk mails. The first is by using Mozilla thunderbird mail client, the second is by forwarding to gmail or yahoo. Both methods are free! Yet, I prefer the second method.

Flood season here in Indonesia!

2008-01-07T23:56:00.000-08:00

It is flood season! This become the prove that our education content fails to create people with good environmental awareness. Why flood occurs? It is because we no longer have enough trees (or forests) to retain water from directly go to the sea. Why do they continue to deforestate (to cut trees)? Don't they understand from elementary school education that deforestation causes flood and land abrasion? Of course, they do understand this. But they are blinded by money from deforestation. They need money to be able to live glamorously. They do not care about people suffering from flooding and land abrasion. "As long as I have too much money, flooding is no problem. With my money I can buy a helicopter. Using the heli, I can see the flood from the sky! I will still be able to see great scenery: flood every where!" one of them says.

The calamity occurs and continue to occur. No prompt action taken by the authority here. They are very busy in counting the loss caused by the flood. Counting and keep counting until one day Jakarta will be drown by big flood. This is the time when the authority is drown by their own mismanagement of this beloved country, Indonesia. Good bye the authority! Have a nice big flood!

Life Insurace

2008-01-02T00:10:00.001-08:00

I still don't have life insurance. But, recently, I have visited this kind of company, Advantage Life Insurance, http://www.advantagetermlife.com/. The site has interactive form at its homepage, facilitating user to try which insurance option will be best fit tho their needs. The difficulty for me (nurkhamid, the author of this blog) to join the company is that I still have not inclined to insure my life. I still believe in myself and in God (that He will give the best for me).

However in terms of the opinion that man should prepare their best in their life, it seems that to have life insurance is one kind of this realization. Of course, this should be planned based on the income. In the form, given in the website,
http://www.advantagetermlife.com/, the option for the amount is very flexible, ranging from $50,000 to $5,000,000. This indicate that Advantage Life Insurance, http://www.advantagetermlife.com/ shows its flexibility from the first place.

But please remember that this company only accepts the US people.

Another place for bloggers is http://www.blogsvertise.com/home.php

2007-12-29T02:38:00.000-08:00

Yes, another place for bloggers to make money is http://www.blogsvertise.com/home.php.

I feel optimistic that I will be accepted by the administrator of Blogsvertise to become an opinion maker in my free blog provided by Google. This is because I have been a freelance translator for more than ten years. Please visit Bionetra Org to see this by yourself.

As a consequence, in the near future I should apply for a credit card so that I will become a verified paypal member. Why should I become a verified member? This is because in order to receive money via paypal account someone should be a verified member.

I see in the future that I will have a new activity (job) instead of translating and lecturing. The new activity is blogging for money. May God bless you and me! Let's work together in the age of Internet and Information explosion ...

Opinion about Smorty dot com

2007-12-29T01:55:00.000-08:00

If you have a blog account and you are able to write in English correctly, then you will have a chance to get money from smorty dot com.

Wow, this is great! What should I do to get this?

First, please go to the smorty dot com website at: http://www.smorty.com/. You will find the information you needed there.

Next, don't forget to register yourself via registration link provided, or if you are in a hurry, you may click this registration link of smorty dot com.

Next, after you are finished with the registration, you will get a confirmation email containing a confirmation link that you should click to get confirmed.

Here is the example of a confirmation email I received:

from Smorty
to nurkhamid nurkhamid ,
date Dec 29, 2007 5:00 PM
subject Confirm your email address

hide details 5:00 PM (18 minutes ago)

Reply

Dear nurkhamid nurkhamid,

To complete your Smorty account, you must click the link below and enter your password on the following page to confirm your email address. Alternatively you can copy and paste this URL to your browser.

https://members.smorty.com/blogger_account_activation.asp?smix=75B0D1AF816B06F7921BF7BD8B98EAA6ADDEA58A4D991FFC642C663F2E225F9F4ACxxxxxx

Thank you for using Smorty.

www.smorty.com

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your Smorty account and choose the contact us link located in the top menu of any Smorty page.

Once again, don't forget to click the confirmation link.

A few seconds later, you will get an email saying that your account is active at smorty dot com. Congratulations! Now you are ready to do a blogging and to make money.