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Disturbed…

August 2nd, 2004. Published under Daily Journal, Games. 1 Comment.

Monday, after the fun weekend we’ll come to it eventually. Yeah, get back on my seat and start the crazy coding again. Speaking the language that only fellow programmers and the dumb computers can understand :p. Okay they ain’t dumb. Actually they are super dumb x(. Can you believe it. I only forgot to place a damn single semi colon at the end of a sentence and the stupid computer refused to do what I told it and it took me almost two hours just to figure it out :O. Gosh, if only they were a bit smarter. Oups, I didn’t mean it. Remember the Matrix. When the machines get smarter, then it just a matter of time before they replace every single human in the world.

Sigh, nothing special happened today. It’s really boring :(. My cell phone rang a few times but I didn’t know who called me. The number didn’t show up, you know, an IM3 feature. I didn’t like it though. It’s annoying. People always use it to disturb others. So I kept my phone silent all day. The mysterious phone call stopped when Veve answered the call for me. Nobody answered she said. I’m right ain’t I? They just wanted to disturb me.

About 17.00, a friend called me and asked me to go out with him to Tunjungan Plasa. I haven’t seen him for at least a year. Practically after he graduated last year I never saw him anymore. You know what, before his graduation, he came to my house almost every week and we met each other everyday. Just before his final college test, he slept in my house almost everyday. His house is in Kendangsari and mine in Tropodo, Waru. Pretty far I guess. But he did came to my house :D. Yes, he was forced to do it because he couldn’t do his final project alone. He needed my help so he came all the way to see me. When he finished with me then he left just like that. Haha, that’s what I call a friend. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

I just don’t understand but it seems that I always have that kind of friends from my childhood. Maybe that’s why I become a bit individualist. My recent psychology test showed me that I was anti-social as well, hehehe. Recently, all of sudden he tried to contact me often. I didn’t know what was his purpose. Maybe he didn’t have any, but who knows. But I did know that he’s gonna take his girlfriend today to Tunjungan Plasa. I heard her voice on the phone. What the heck would I do there with him and his girlfriend? And you know what, I refused his invitation and played Ragnarok Online instead :D. Am I wrong?

The best things in the world are really free

August 1st, 2004. Published under Daily Journal, Games, Techie Stuffs. 4 Comments.

Just a week ago, when browsing the Webhostingtalk forum for some eCommerce recommendations for my current project, Admirology, I found some people talking about the best free Web hosting. I tried some of their suggestions and found one that is interesting, 100Webspace. After a common signup procedure, I got what I wanted: a generous 100Mb space, adequate PHP+MySQL support, an FTP account, SSH telnet, the awesome CPanel, and many others, for free and without that annoying ads. This is so damn cool but I did have bad experience with some free hosting services before: f2s and spaceport. The former had its free service discontinued. The latter were extremely slow and troublesome. I hope the service will last for a long time enough, at least until I can spare some money for a paid hosting.

What now? I got a free hosting, what would I put there? Yes, I had a Web site already. It was created when I’m in college to host my assignments. Okay, just upload it to the new host. Great, it worked. Ummm… when was it last updated? May 12, 2003? What the heck. It is the Internet. How could you abandon a Web site for more than a year? Leave your site without updates for a week, your visitors will get bored. Leave it for a month, you’re dead. What’s the big deal? I didn’t make money from my site. It was only a personal site for hosting my college project. I don’t care if it’s alive or dead. So why did you signup to the new host at the first place? Why did you bother, stupid morron. No offense, I’m speaking to my self. Te he he… I recently found that speaking to my self sometimes give a pleasure. Oh no!!!, Gollum you be responsible for this.

It’s been a while since I write my last blog. Actually, I didn’t call it a blog. I used to call it “site news”. Since some of my colleagues recently get addicted to blogging, I decide to start writing again. My old site had no feature for writing blogs. I used to do it manually. Composed the html files, uploaded, edited, uploaded, added, uploaded,… Hei, were you leaving in caves? Gosh, today everything is automated and instant. Need writing blogs, blogger.com will take care of every blogging thing for you. Wait, you had a free host already and you are a programmer, aren’t you. Why the heck do you need blogger.com anyway? Get your lazy butt up and start to do it yourself.

Phew, it took me about four days to finish this new site. Okay, I lied. It is not finished, yet. But at least I can write my blogs and others can add comments to my blogs. Who cares about other things.

Ragnarok Online was never attractive to me although thousands of players played it everyday. Being an online game means that you must stay connected to the f***ing Internet just to play the f***ing game. Is it enough? No, you still have to pay a weekly or monthly submission fee to login to the Ragnarok Online server in order to play the game. How ridiculous. There are still many great games you can play for free. I’m not talking about pirated games, maybe I’ll talk about it someday. But wait, Ragnarok Online Indonesia announced that it had a new server and will made it available to the public for free on July 28th, 2004. Did I hear “free”? Wow, that’s a news. So what are you waiting for, I signed up and started to play on my free time, he he.

Hey, you always talk about free stuffs, are you really that poor? Perhaps, but believe me or not, the best things in the world are really free. The air we breathe and the water we drink are free. Okay, we must pay for clean water these days. Malaysians and Singaporeans no longer can breathe fresh air because of the smoke from the Indonesia’s forest fire. But they are given for free from the very first time. It is our responsible to keep them free and healthy. I’m not an environmentalist so I dare not to speak more than this. What is the best thing in the world for you? Can you really get it for free? Yes I can. My salvation is the best thing and I get it freely just because Jesus has paid it for me with His blood. For that I can only offer my eternal gratitude.