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Alternative to LinkWithin

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:44:00 +0000

It's been a while that I was looking for alternative to LinkWithin. LinkWithin is actually cool and very useful plugin, until you made changes to your blog. I recall that a few days after using the plugin, the bounce rate dropped significantly. It means that it worked as it supposed to. The...

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Introducing The Aroengbinang Travelog

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:11:00 +0000

After a few weeks of rather intensive works, The Aroengbinang Travelog has finally come into shape, and is ready for viewing, albeit some works are still need to be done to make it fully functional. The Aroengbinang Travelog is a site with main purpose to document journeys and photos taken...

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Tweetback Button Inside Post

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:05:00 +0000

I didn't touch my Twitter account for months, was not aware that it could be used to promote a new posting to fellow users, and didn't know that it could also be used to measure a posting popularity, until the day I found out that the Indonesia Matters has changed its blog ranks criteria to include...

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The Java Jazz Concert

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:21:00 +0000

It was a brief article in a local newspaper that I subscribe that gave information about the Java Jazz Solo Concert. It has no relation at all with the Java Jazz Festival which is normally held every early March. Java Jazz group was established in 1991 by noted Jazz musician Indra Lesmana...

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Kua Etnika at Jazz Gunung

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:13:00 +0000

It was Sigit Pramono, President Director of state-owned Bank Negara Indonesia and chairman of The National Banks Association (Perbanas), who crafted the idea of organizing a Jazz event at Tengger's soil that gave the birth of the first Jazz Gunung last Saturday, July 25, 2009. He's also known as...

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C.TwoSix at Jazz Gunung

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:32:00 +0000

Last weekend, July 26, a live musical event of Jazz Gunung was held at Java Banana Bromo, claims to be a tropical lodge with the best panoramic view of Mount Tengger. The place is located at Wonotoro village, Sukapura subdistrict, Probolinggo, East Java. At 2000 meters above sea-level, it gives...

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Fight!

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:30:00 +0000

Disbelief and humiliated, those were among the first responses that came into everybody's mind on hearing the news of bomb explosion at JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton Hotel, Jakarta, on Friday morning. Deep sympathy to the victims and their families, who were killed and wounded in the blast, were...

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On Acceptance

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:06:00 +0000

Acceptance of circumstances and realities that one faces in life certainly is a choice, and so is refusal or denial. Whether acceptance is better or worse than, or equally the same as refusal, depends on the person's MiHeS (mind, heart, soul) set, then on plan of action and execution that follow....

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Shift Happens

noreply@blogger.com (Chandra) — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:11:00 +0000

This is my first post at The Aroengbinang Project, fulfilling my promise to the blog's owner, as one of TAP's contributors. I've been living abroad for several years, and since a few months back I've been busy attending a class to get a certification. Thanks that at last I completed my final term...

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Talkers

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:05:00 +0000

Last week, right after the unofficial announcement by PD that Boediono would be selected as SBY's running mate for the upcoming Presidential election in July 8, leaders from PD's coalition parties, especially PKS and PAN, voiced out their disappointment, suspicion, accusation and even threatened to...

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C'est la vie

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:06:00 +0000

I happened to read this phrase of C'est la vie yesterday and my memory warped back to the end of 1970s. Memory of an old beautiful song with the same title. I even forgot who played it until several hits on Youtube search engine brought me a name, and it was Greg Lake, the vocalist of Emerson Lake...

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The Break Up

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:25:00 +0000

In general people do not like surprises and uncertainties, business and common people alike, and hence things that will ensure stability and continuity will get support from the majority of the people. That's what exactly happened in the Indonesian politics these days, when the break up of the...

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Statesmanship

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:16:00 +0000

Every person, institution or government has some blind spots, areas where the span of vision and control of the person could just not reach, and the person remains ill-informed until somebody be kind enough to share their observations in the form of critics, suggestions or in harsher forms of...

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Vote with MiHeS

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:50:00 +0000

Thursday, April 9, 2009, is the day of General Election for the Indonesians. People cast vote to select candidates to be entitled for seats in the parliament. They are the lawmakers who suppose to represent people's interests and aspirations, both at regional and national levels. Many of the...

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Dewa.Tohpati@JavaJazz

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:48:00 +0000

Dewa Bujana and Tohpati performance at the JavaJazz Festival last March was the second first class performance of two guitarists on a stage that I have ever seen so far. The first one was Assad Guitar Duo's performance that I watched in 2007. At JavaJazz, the big names of the two guitarists had...

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The Awesome Gugun

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:39:00 +0000

It was a short text message from Yoosca that brought me to Bentara Budaya Jakarta on the evening of March 12, 2009, to see the performance of Gugun & The Blues Shelter. It's again another unfamiliar name to my ears, but since I considered myself a fan of blues, I killed my hesitancies to face...

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On Virtual Enterprise Program

noreply@blogger.com (sboentaran) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:45:00 +0000

For the first time, high school students from High/Scope Indonesia are participating in the 3rd Merrill Lynch Global Business Challenge Competition and 12th Annual International Trade Fair to be held on 23-26 March in New York City. Participants prepared themselves for one school year under the...

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Quasimode@JavaJazz

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:22:00 +0000

I had no idea at all what kind of band that I was going to see when my daughter brought me to Cendrawasih 2-3 hall at the second day of Java Jazz Festival 2009, to watch Quasimode performance. That tells me how important it is to listen to jazz radio, watch mTV and other music shows, and see jazz...

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Chaseiro@JavaJazz

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:40:00 +0000

Sweet and soft music that perfectly combined and blended nicely with solid all males choir have put Chaseiro in a very special place in the hearts of Indonesian music fans of the late 70s and early 80s. It's really nice and sweet to see the legendary group performance in a big stage of Cendrawasih...

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Sierra@JavaJazz

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:30:00 +0000

I have no idea about who she is, neither the group of young musicians with whom she played with, but when I entered the crowded hall out of curiosity, sat comfortably on the floor, and started listening to her vocals and the music, I enjoyed both. Later I knew that her name is Amanda Sierra...

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Syaharani@JavaJazz

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:16:00 +0000

Cendrawasih3-room at the Jakarta Convention Center obviously could not accommodate the flock of Syaharani's loyal fans who wanted to see their beloved iconic Jazz vocalist performed with the Queenfireworks band. The abundance energy that she has, the color of her superb vocal, her friendliness and...

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The Living Death of Artists

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:51:00 +0000

It was not the first time I saw them sitting on the dirty floor, right in front of Sroto Eling-Eling at Jl. Lapangan Roos Raya, Tebet, performing traditional Javanese songs, but at that time after finishing my affair with the delicious Sroto (I skipped the hot and oily mendoan), I decided to greet...

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The Concert

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:03:00 +0000

It's been a while that no new article was posted in TAP, and I feel sorry for that. Even though I'm questioning the fate of blogger with the phenomenal growth of Facebook users that has made other social network sites such as Friendster in limbo, still I'm committed in maintaining the blog. It...

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List of Blog Directories

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:18:00 +0000

Traffic is certainly important for your blog, as no matter how good your articles are, you still need to attract readers to come to your blog so that they can read and appreciate your works. To be listed in as many blog directories as possible is one of the common strategies to increase blog...

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Longing for the Past

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang Aroengbinang) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:32:00 +0000

For those of you who were born in the 50s and early 60s, this is for you. There are a couple of very special songs and lyrics that will bring you back to and refresh your aging memories of the good old days. Just as what the Alan Parson Project says: Time, flowing like a river; Time, beckoning me;...

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