john’s log

Hello, New Year!

Posted on December 31st, 2005 by john.
Categories: personal, weblog, work.

After more than 2 months of silence, I’m writing again.

I’ve just spent the night in the office, working!@#$!@#. I pratically have been working for almost 30 hours since yesterday morning, 9 AM, with probably just one hour sleep (and not a continuous one hour! >:( ). We were (and still now) rushing to meet the deadline to print student report cards today. We (the schools to be precise) didn’t perfectly made the deadline. One school just print report cards for 1 class only, another made it manually. They both probably will print the actual report cards tomorrow or on Monday. It has been a very exhausting week for all of us here at MCEC(Makassar Cyber Education Center).

Anyway, I’ve been to various places and events in these past two months. I’ve been to Bali, and visited Bedugul and Kuta for about 10 days. I’ve been to Toraja during the Idul Fitri holidays. Many Christmas celebrations, and other events. The “S2IS”:http://john.chendra.net/index.php/2005/10/26/another-waiting-is-over/ perfectly suits every event . I’m thinking and looking for a way to share the pictures (which some I’ve already used as wallpapers), probably using “Gallery 2 (Gallery 2)”:http://gallery.menalto.com/ or “Flickr (Flickr)”:http://www.flickr.com/.
For the past 2 weeks, I also have join the “Fedora Ambassadors”:http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/. I’m hoping to contribute to linux, maybe not in programming or other geeky stuff, but at least I know I am helping to spread the Freedom

I’ve been browsing through the “WordPress Theme Viewer (WP Theme Viewer)”:http://themes.wordpress.net/ again, and found many beautiful themes. And yes, I am also planning on upgrading this blog to WP 2.
Maybe those are my blog’s New Year Resolution. As for myself, I’m really looking forward to do what I have learnt during the Haggai Institute seminars in “Malino”:http://john.chendra.net/index.php/2005/10/26/haggai-institute/ or Bedugul.

Anyway, To close the post, and the year, I just want to say, Have yourself a Happy New Year! … Christmas you ask? We should have it everyday… in our hearts!

2 comments.

the wait is over

Posted on October 17th, 2005 by john.
Categories: personal, weblog.

The wait is over,

“http://chendra.wordpress.com/(horray!)”:http://chendra.wordpress.com

not too satisfied…, because john.wordpress.com is already taken
!/images/wpcom.jpg(chendra.wordpress.com)!

Unlike many other “Gajah-ers(the junk machine)”:http://id-gmail.info, who are invited by other users, I got this ivitation directly from “wordpress.com(you can ask for an account here)”:http://wordpress.com. But as I’ve always said, “satu aja bikin pusing, gimana kalau nambah?” or something like that

Another thing, this information came through while I was testing my new Fedora (yes, another Fedora) installation at home, testing the modem actually. My previous attempt to use my Prolink external Modem, had always came to a dead end, a bad and very slow connection. But this time, it’s connected correctly and it’s quite fast. I don’t know if it’s just the “euphoria”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria of successfull connection or the wp.com information, but I think my connection now (using FC4(Fedora Core 4)) is faster than using the same connection/ISP(Internet Serivce Provider) in Windows XP.

This is a chance to be more creative, more specific, and demand more writing capabilities from me. Let’s just hope I can use this chance..
And last but not least, I have ONE (for now) invitation, anybody interested? FIFO(first in first out..)

5 comments.

new theme

Posted on October 16th, 2005 by john.
Categories: fun, personal, weblog.

Okay, let’s try this new theme. More information, see the bottom of every page Got this theme from wordpress’ theme page.

Modified the style.css and sidebar.php a bit. I liked the old composition more. And I added in more information about myself on the Author section.

Good Night

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more spam!

Posted on September 26th, 2005 by john.
Categories: weblog.

Am I attracting more spam as the result of my recent post about spam solution? Or Joining an aggregate blog causes more spam to come?
Here’s the screenshot:

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spam solution

Posted on September 23rd, 2005 by john.
Categories: weblog.

Recently, my blog has received some spam trackbacks and comments. Luckily (or sadly? ) my blog is not very popular, like priyadi’s or enda’s. the spam comments/trackbacks are not so many and So comments/trackbacks (including spam ones) are not high in number, which makes spam easier to be spotted and deleted. But i’ve been doing that for about 1 week, and that sucks.

Looking for solution, I then go and ask in The Elephant Mailing List, about what is the best spam solution plugin for WordPress. To my surprise, the solution is not necessarily takes form in a plugin, but is as simple as some bad word list, to filter the spam out of comments and trackbacks. The solution giver was JAY(Jay Adalah Yulian), who was kind enough to share his keyword list to me (and the mailing list). I have a copy of the list, right here, plus some from WordPress’ Codex site. Of course, this option has been lying there since i don’t know when, but I just didn’t care and put any attention to it. That’s exactly why I call myself a lazy blogger.

Just put these keywords in your Options >> Discussion >> Comment Moderation (or) Comment Blacklist section. If you put it in the first one, comments containing one of the words will automatically be held for moderation. But if you put it in the latter, comments containing one of the words will automatically be deleted and vanished forever.

Now, good bye you texas holdem spammer

(Update: I updated this post after an opinion/comment from Priyadi)

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WORK!

Posted on September 8th, 2005 by john.
Categories: personal, weblog, work.

Beberapa hari ini, saya diajak rapat dengan atasan, ujung-ujungnya seperti biasa, kerjaan nambah terus..
Saat ini saya harus menyelesaikan minimal 4 pekerjaan sekaligus:

1. Mencari alternatif collaboration portal untuk menggantikan MS Sharepoint Portal kami yang tewas (hilang data). Saat ini saya sedang melihat-lihat eGroupWare, atau mungkin pakai drupal aja sekalian
Dan yang penting harus di-host di luar kantor, biar kejadian data hilang itu nggak berulang lagi. Makassar sedang dalam masa pemadaman listrik bergilir.
2. Membuat analisis untuk modul kelas akselerasi untuk MCEC(Makassar Cyber Education Center) dengan data yang berasal dari SMA(Sekolah Menengah Atas) 17 Makassar.
3. Membuat TOR(Terms Of Reference) untuk implementasi Student Cyber Club, semacam Klub pecinta komputer untuk siswa-siswa di sekolah. Paper work!
4. Membantu SMA(Sekolah Menengah Atas) 15 Makassar untuk membuat proposal teknis untuk melengkapi fasilitas komputerisasi di sekolah bersangkutan. More Paper work!
5. Beberapa tugas lain yang sifatnya teknis, misalnya penarikan kembali komputer yang dipinjamkan ke sekolah, memantau perkembangan Canopy BWP(Broadband Wireless Platform), dan mencari data center di Makassar (emang ada?) untuk backup database.

Semakin dipandangi, semakin stres. Kok kerjaan saya sekarang lebih banyak paper work ya..
Selain itu, pekerjaan lain, melakukan monitoring penggunaan bandwidth juga cukup menyita perhatian, apalagi saya lagi mencoba ‘barang baru’ yang namanya cacti, yang disarankan oleh mas Affan pada komentar-nya di salah satu posting saya. Tambah lagi, saya juga diperbantukan untuk mendukung (dari sisi ICT(Information Communication Technolgy)) untuk lembaga ICT-Ed yang dibentuk untuk memfasilitasi pelatihan IT untuk guru-guru di Makassar.

Biasanya saya tidak pernah menceritakan masalah pekerjaan saya di blog ini, tapi kali ini rasanya ingin aja cerita, biar blog ini berasa lebih personal. Saya juga sudah agak lama tidak meng-update blog ini secara berkesinambungan. Lagipula saya juga perlu catatan biar gak kelupaan ama pekerjaan yang menumpuk, makin ribet dan makin bikin pusing ini..

Ngomong-ngomong, saya lagi nyari theme baru yang siap pakai buat WordPress nih.. gak sempat-sempat mau ngebongkar theme ini.. Ada yang mau kasi saran? Makasih sebelumnya!

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friendster blog

Posted on April 15th, 2005 by john.
Categories: weblog.

okay, at last I click the orange button on friendster.com..
here you go: moreblog

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