Tanah Abang is wildly known as a place for its cheapness in the old days, but because it’s transform into a regular mall, the cheapness now is questionable, you have to scourge the place to find the store that sells cheap. Jatinegara also have this kind of stigma, you have to scourge if you want to find store that sells cheap. The current place that i’ve visited is Jatinegara, i’ve come here once or twice a month to buy fruit or garment.

The place is quite crowded, the photo that i have is the “less” crowded version.

The first time you come here you’ll going to notice that the place is really a mess. The only path to walk that you can take is in the middle of the street, the rest of the place was taken by merchant.

The outside of the main building we are greeted with cookery merchant.

this is one of the picture that i take on august, in our independence day.

the motor parking lot

On the way home i found firecracker merchant. When I came here, I usually dont bring my car, because it’s quite hard to find parking space here. There’s a busway stop near here if you want to ride busway.

The red one is called bajaj :)
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Almost forgot to post it :)
Happy Eid ul-Fitr guys!
As always after a month fasting, the time has come for Muslims to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr. I would like to ask for your forgiveness if i have wrote something inconvenient in my site.

This post is different from the last Happy Eid ul Fitr post last year, i’d like to tell you a little about our tradition.

It’s a tradition with our family once in Eid ul-Fitr we met up with our elderly, because my parent are the oldest one, the met up are happens in their house this year Eid ul-Fitr (we usually called it “Lebaran” in indonesian). I have to admit my parents house aren’t that big, there’s around 5 family comes to the house and it’s quite crowded, here’s are the pictures of the girls, not all of them but most of them.

We had lots of fun and the food was really plenty, at noon we ate ice cream, lots of them

This is one of my brother, playing around.

After a long day at my parent house, in the afternoon we go to my mother-in-law house, outside Jakarta. There’s not much of a picture there, most of them are family gathering photoshoot.

At night, my niece played firecracker

I usually dont like firecracker because it’s a waste of money imho, but seeing those kids happy playing it, made me understand a little why firecracker is fun.

The next day at my mother in law house, we take a rest a full day because the busy days before, we chat the whole day doing nothing. The next day we go to one of the most popular mall in Jakarta for the kids to play, the mall was quite huge, there’s event a play ground for kids inside of it. My niece played almost four hours in the playground but me and my wife decided to split and go to the book store and after that accompanied me looking for camera (i was looking one :D)

Here is my niece and this the last ride we’ve played that day, she was really happy that day. Last week turns out to be a nice moment for me at this Lebaran, but there’s something that i didn’t fullfiled yet, is going to pekalongan. Happy Lebaran guys!

note :
looks like all of my friends think, i’ve set the photos color here are wrong on my camera or the camera is broken or something. Well to clear things up, I’ve photoshop all of my photos here so it look like from the 80 or an old photo, the old look was intentionally.
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About two month ago my father reminded me about his collection of comic books, and i remembered it too that his collection of comics is super awesome, there are almost three 2 meter high cabinet filled with classic Indonesian’s comic book.

But after time went by, we don’t know how to preserve comic the right way, one by one the collection is destroyed by humidity and reading bugs :(

it’s a sad day for me and my dad the day that mom had to throw away our comic book. Nevertheless time gone by, we tried no to regret it.

Later, after my dad reminded me, me & my wife made a pact that we shall bought him the comic book that he had before, one by one. Since then we bought 8 comics book, it’s far from his total collection he once had before, but it’s a start.

The comic author that we got is R.A Kosasih, and the price is significantly higher than the first time we bough it’s around Rp,400. Now the price is Rp,35,000 to 85,000 (3,5 – 8,5 USD). We have a couple of more that we want to buy but i want to postponed it.

The publisher of the comic book, doesn’t use royalty system for the comic, so the comic author doesn’t get any penny after it was bought (i read it somewhere in Kompas newspaper), It’s been forty years and the comic still republished, i’m quite ashamed of the system, because in my opinion RA. Kosasih has the same status like Stan Lee did in US comic books .

Here’s a couple screen shot of the comic book cover that i bought

here’s clip of the content

the hand drawn for the comic is very classic, all of the story that brought by R.A Kosasih is around the epic of Mahabarata. He take the middle story of many version of the story trough his comic.

Here’s another screenshot of his comic book

and the content

honestly i haven’t read it all, in the old days i read it all but i was kid back then so i dont really understand what the story is about.

Right now i read half of the comic and felt this comic is LOL :D and you can’t complaint about the quality of the comic, it’s a reprinted edition from 40 years ago. it’s full of awesomeness in my childhood, maybe i’ll post the content in the future post.
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How could you know if a games is filled with total awesomeness

• it’s when you see the title only, you’ll be filled with the memory of the game
• you want to play it all the time
• you never get bored playing it after a long time
• after almost 3 years in the shelf, the game itself is still awesome when you play it again

That’s what happen to me when i play Tetris DS, the game again been poisoning my mind for two month now.

It’s started when i was organizing my desk and found Tetris DS box, at that moment i was almost bored to death with my Nintendo DS, since Final Fantasy IV i haven’t found any game that interesting enough for me. Then after i played this game again, i play it over and over every time i have spare time.

you see this screenshot? because of this, this past few week when i’m tired of reading and working, i daydream hearing and visualizing those damned Tetris block dropping away :D

this is just one of game mode that was in Tetris DS, there’s 5 more that could be addicted like this. Imagine, a game as simple as this could be so addicting. There’s other game that’s similiar like this, Meteos, but i forgot where do i put the game box. But Meteos only have one mode to play, Tetris DS have 6.

If that’s not the sign of a game that filled with awesomeness, then what is?
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When we arrive at 9am in the morning, the weather is nice.

the first thing that we do is looking at the huge cage for peacock, i wonder why does have to be this huge.

i took pictures of my wife in front of it, the cage is huge right?

Bear, giraffe, lions, deer, komodo, you name it, there’s lot of it, but my main reason of this trip, is having a good time with my niece, so i don’t take a lot of pictures of the animal there.

after almost 6 hour, we went home to get some rest.
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My sister in-law was right, the next day the market move to another street. but lucky for me, it’s also not far from my house, only 3 blocks away. It stretch along street for 700 meters (0.43 miles) long.

The market is full of people selling many things, many of them sell cheap shirt and crappy toys,

but i happen to found one of them selling this classic toys, boat that uses burning oil to cruise, it brings back many memory because i happen to have when i was a kid.

There are also store which sell traditional bamboo flute, in our culture this kind of music instrument called “Seruling Bambu”.

After a couple of hour, i ate fried duck on my way home near the market. We bought a cool embroidered shirt for my older brother sons and a cheap sandal for me.

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@font-face at-rule is one of the most anticipated feature in CSS3, it allow you to define custom font for your website, allowing you to upload fonts to your web server and deliver the font itself to the client browser

Typekit is a web service that provide fonts & the font delivery service for this use, the huge benefit of using Typekit is that you dont have to think about the font license that you’re going to use and the bandwidth that the font are going take, Typekit will take care of that. But lets get to the point on how to use it on your thematic child themes,

After signing in (currently on invitation only), you’re asked about the name and the address of your website (you can use localhost for testing environment) then you’re asked to add snippet code to your html head tag like this

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<script type="text/javascript" src="http://use.typekit.com/XXXX.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">try{Typekit.load();}catch(e){}</script>

to use it on your thematic child theme use this code at functions.php

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function childtheme_typekit() { ?>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://use.typekit.com/XXXX.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">try{Typekit.load();}catch(e){}</script>
<?php }
add_filter('thematic_head_scripts','childtheme_typekit');

(change the XXXX or change all the snippet code)

What this code does is put the script at your head tag. Easy right? if you want to know more about thematic you could visit Thematic Framework.

About Typekit, I was a late invitation on Typekit, i’ve notice on twitter that every body got the invitation since first august but i just get the invitation yesterday. My experience using typekit? it’s downright easy, u could automatically add font stack on the Typekit Editor in case the client browser doesn’t support @font-face.

after testing in localhost environment this is the screenshot of Typekit in action

This is good-dog font, using h1 selector with letter-spacing -1

Typekit comes in two version, the free and the pay version, the free version you’ll get less choice of font and you’ll get typekit badge while using it. There are 3 pay version scaling up the number fonts, bandwidth use & features.

Right now i’m using the free version, i haven’t thought in upgrading my account, because right now i dont have any plans on what i’m going to use it for.

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The site sell Nursing covers for breastfeeding, bib for baby and diaper bags. The language that are used is Indonesian because she targeted the Indonesian market first, but to her affirmation she also confirm that she is capable in dealing with international buyers.

Here are the screenshot of the site,

The question that may pop-up in your mind is why does an online store doesn’t have a shopping chart? It’s because the nature of the online consumer here in Indonesia. Using credit card in an online environment are still rare here, many of the Indonesian consumer doesn’t believe in the security of the interwebs and the popular bank here also doesn’t have the support in online transaction, they do have internet banking but they doesn’t support retailer to use their bank service on the retailer site. So the solution? using the good old fashion of contact form, even so, in my experience there still difficulty in using it, in that position, the default comment form of WordPress coming in, to back-up it up i also use chat-box and Yahoo messenger status ID.
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According to my best recollection, it’s been almost 4-5 years since my last visit to traditional market, the last time i go there, the road is wet and a lot of shredded vegetables on the path of the market. The smell is… horrible, the place is awfully crowded. But the aside from that, the price of things is very cheap, very very fresh and have a lot more variety than the supermarket. I never directly compared it, but that’s what my wife told me :D

Nowadays… the progress of traditional market it’s still the same with the last time i go there :( crowded, wet and a lot of shredded vegetables. I’ve heard that many traditional market are being upgraded to a more clean and less smelly environment, but i’m pretty sure that Pasar Klender is not one of them.

The first item that my wife want to buy is 2 chicken, because the chicken is very graphic :D i wont show it on this post, but i’ll show you the market on closer look

This is the view when i first came, it’s really hectic, the market itself are on the street, taking half of road.

After buying chickens, my wife look for herbs to buy, it happen to pass the fish stands, there’s a lot of them, i want to eat an octopus :D but alas there’s none, only manta-ray, so i look for other weird things but couldn’t found anything interesting enough to eat.

My wife wants to cook soup so she bought two bag of veggie for soup. What i found interesting while buying, the seller is already pack the veggie for certain kind of dish. There’s a bag of veggie for soup, “sayur asem” (i dont know the name in english), “sayur nangka” etc. All of the bags look similar to me, but my wife happen to have a keen eye in knowing which bags to buy.

after that she went to the deeper part of the market to search another herbs, i see a lot of fresh live fish on a bucket to sell, but the place it’s too crowded so i couldn’t takes pictures.

Last, i want to buy grapes and banana, there’s no good grapes at sight so i just buy bananas

Remember when i said that things are cheap in there, well… i bought two group (? i forgot what it’s called in english) of bananas for only 40cent USD :D

After that we went home with bags of groceries. All in all, if it isn’t too smelly, i love to go to the traditional market even more because there’s a lot of interesting to look and take pictures, but the traditional market in my place still too smelly and like most traditional market, the market only serve fresh stuff at the peak of the morning, around 5am to 10am.
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The themes is simple and lightweight. Mostly i played only with font and layout, more about it you can read it here.

Screenshot

The Puspaningrum child themes uses two plugins. The CQS (custom query string) and Simply Yearly Archive. The CQS is to manage the view in the search, category, tags, archive month view and year view so it only appear four post for each page. The Simply Yearly Archive is for the archive page. Nevertheless the themes still work without the plugins.

How to use the Puspaningrum child theme

1. Download the latest Thematic framework version here
2. Download Puspaningrum themes
3. If u want a custom query for the tags, category, search, year & month view appear nicely, just download CQS plugin here and set it like this screenshot
   
4. Download The Simply Yearly Archive if u want to have an archive page like this site
5. if u want to change the logo just change logo.png (251×40px) in the images folder

Demo page? well just see the screenshot above or see this site, i currently use Puspaningrum theme. U can also add Google Analytics, just change the ID in functions.php line 159. The themes is GPL, a link back is appreciated but not required.
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this is supposed to be an unbiased comparison
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/browser-comparison.aspx

Update:
the ads is just plain stupid to persuade people to use IE
(beware graphic)

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After careful thought in choosing the right PC, i stumbled upon a great bargain branded PC, HP Compaq CQ2030L at bhinneka.com for $419. I choose this because compared with building the PC by myself with the compaq specification it makes around $390, it still a bit pricey but considering that it is branded and uses intel Atom 230, i’m sure that it’s durable and very energy efficient, the uses of Intel Atom that coined me the PC with the term green PC.

The things that interested me the most is that the package that are offered by Bhinneka was bundled with an 18.5inch wide Compaq LCD and HP Deskjet 1550, The LCD will surely help me in coding but unfortunately for the printer, is that i’ve just bought a new printer and scanner last month, so i gave it away the printer to my relatives. The first time i hand on the PC, i was quite shocked of how small it is because it’s my first time using a thin PC like this. I’ve done a couple of research before i bought it, one of them is the PC only consume less than 100watt of electricity, the processor itself is only 22watt max.

When the package came, i asked to the delivery guy, is there a Windows XP driver on the box? the guy answer, there’s none. That’s when the first problem came, i was intended to install win XP on the PC but there’s no driver at hand and no PC at my house, later then the delivery guy promise me that it’s not a problem, i can ask the technician at Bhinneka to help. Felt relieved by the promised, i’ve knew that i can count on the help of the technician at Bhinneka. But boy do i was wrong about it, i sent a polite email to care@bhinneka.com to guide me to the location to download win XP driver.

After three days with no response (no autoresponder too), i knew that i can’t expect help from them, so i had to search it by my self. After googling, i found the driver at HP but only for Windows VISTA. Such a crap moment, knowing pretty sure that the PC itself couldn’t run Vista smoothly, but the HP only provide VISTA driver for that type.
After googling a few hours more, i’m pretty sure there’s no other site providing the driver. So i went back to HP.com and tweak the keyword and found the driver. The driver i get is from the Compaq CQ2000 type, the CQ2030L type is for Indonesian only and doesn’t provide XP driver. Everything went smoothly with the CQ2000 driver, It runs really well on XP sp2. if u want to download HP Compaq CQ2030L driver for Windows XP u can download it here.

So how is the performance of the PC? it runs everythings smoothly, right now at the time of the writing, the programs that are running is notepad++ with 8tabs, Firefox with 9 tabs and 8 add-ons, Xamp Server (httpd & mysqld), Comodo firewall and antivirus, password manager and download manager. Is there any hiccups? nope, there’s none. Does it runs Adobe photoshop? or illustrator? yes, but i only test it with Adobe CS2.

I’ve runs photoshop with Firefox, notepad++ and Xamp server, there’s not a single hiccups. i use the photoshop to edit 3000×4000 res photo. the system runs smoothly. All in all, the PC fulled up to my expectation, the only things that i don’t try with this PC is playing 3D games which is not the first thing it was intended.
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I hope from this moment on, I wont change themes anymore, maybe just re-align it in the future :) The purpose of the themes is simple, i dont want to feel bloated with many post in one page. Wont scroll much to read the content and of course i want to have the right font on the right place :)

The old themes i use vigilance themes from jestro

the themes is awesome but i never really click with the font and the structure. Now, i’m using my own child themes based on thematic framework. The purpose large header for the title of the writing, because i think people will get tired seeing those same large logos over and over again but it will be more interested is the focus is in the title of the current content.

here are the new themes screenshot

i wouldn’t lie that i get a lot of the inspiration of the design of this child themes from Coudal and Jason Santa Maria website design. I was looking an inspirational use of Georgia font and Jason’s site happen to give me a really excellent example on how to use one.

The site is still along way from finish, i didn’t add twitter widget yet but i’ve add my recent google reader’s favorite link. Didn’t use favicon yet, I’m going to mock-up a little touch of graphic on the site in the near future.

next are a couple of function that i’ve use in my functions.php on my thematic child theme.

i’ve change the header so there’s no dropdown menu here and i’ve removed , replace it with the new ones. Here’s how i edit the header title on thematic, also adding new title and access using thematic_header() filters

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// Delete drop down!
function childtheme_head_scripts() {}
add_filter('thematic_head_scripts','childtheme_head_scripts');
 
// Remove default Thematic actions
function remove_thematic_actions() {
 remove_action('thematic_header','thematic_blogtitle',3);
 remove_action('thematic_header','thematic_access',9);
}
add_action('init','remove_thematic_actions');
 
function childtheme_menu_args($args) {
    $args = array(
        'show_home' => 'Home',
        'menu_class' => 'menu',
        'echo' => true
    );
	return $args;
}
add_filter('wp_page_menu_args', 'childtheme_menu_args');
 
function childtheme_title(){ ?>
    		<div id="blog-title"><span><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>/" title="<?php bloginfo('name') ?>" rel="home"><img src="<?php echo get_stylesheet_directory_uri(); ?>/images/logo3.png" alt="<?php bloginfo('name') ?>"/></a></span></div>
<?php }
add_action('thematic_header','childtheme_title',3);
 
function childtheme_access(){?>
	<div id="access">
		<?php wp_page_menu('sort_colum=menu_order')?>
	</div> <!--#access-->
<?php }
add_action('thematic_header','childtheme_access',9);

after that i’ve change a little bit on the post_meta and the post_footer. The last function that i’ve use is adding google analytics code on the footer. Here’s how to add Google analytics code on the thematic child themes footer (before close body tag)

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function analytic_footer() {?>
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "XXXXXXX";
urchinTracker();
</script>
<? }
add_filter ('thematic_after', 'analytic_footer');

all of the functions here is almost the same as the last time i post about thematic.

Update:
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Remember how Gmail or Yahoo automatically changes words or transform it into a link if the word resemble an address of a site. Well the idea behind this scheme uses this trick to capture a mass of facebook account to click the message in their email inbox. Well i did click it too :) the message wouldn’t work if it’s open from the facebook itself.
but i didn’t enter my account info though, because when i was trying to unblock noscript in my Firefox, the link doesn’t forbid Facebook but forbid picoband. So lucky me for using noscript :)

Pic by slayer23
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i found it odd that facebook has a double breadcrumb that leads to the same page, even thought the links is different, the page where its headed is the same, its been a long time but no one seems to bother to wrote it. Here is a couple of navigation that i found linking the same page. the first one is

The home page, clicking the home button and the facebook button leads to the same page, why? seeing that it use “ref” keyword on the string of the link, at first i was thinking maybe it’s for surveys or something, but after a year using facebook, does it still need survey for that function?

The second one is, the breadcrumb on the view all friends page, using see all and clicking the amount of your friends lead to the same page too, i dont know why it bother to use two link that leads to the same page (and positioned damn near too).

There are maybe more of this on other page, but i never intended to research about it, i use facebook only to connect with my friends and never intended to use it other than that. It just bother me, seeing it every time i use facebook.
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