Gerakan Bawah Tanah - Mr. GBT

New Gplus UI is wrong!

2013-05-18T22:31:00.001+07:00

G+ has just changed the look and feel (again). And, again, I don't like it. Correction, I actually like the look and feel but it is slow to show. That's because our internet connection is not as fast...

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Gmail's New UI is Wrong

2013-03-30T06:41:00.001+07:00

Gmail has just enabled/changed its user interface. There is one thing that bugs me and I think this should be corrected. If you reply to an email, the body of the replied email is quoted at the...

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Indonesia Internet Statistics

2013-03-10T09:13:00.001+07:00

Recently, I've been asked questions about Indonesian Internet users. To be frankly, I am also looking for data to analyze. (I am running my own internet crawlers, but they are kind of slow - my...

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Path is gaining

2013-03-09T09:42:00.001+07:00

I noticed that Path is gaining popularity in Indonesia at the expense of Facebook. The funny thing is, Path is not well known in the US. This just to show you that you'll never know why things happen...

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WhatsApp-ening

2013-01-28T12:46:00.003+07:00

There is a new trend in Indonesia and it is an application called "WhatsApp". It is an application that allows us to send messages to a person or - more frequently - a group of people. It is a...

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Confused

2013-01-24T09:13:00.000+07:00

I have just read a job opening for RIM. The target market is Indonesia, but the job is in Singapore. I just don't understand this. Why don't the open the job in Indonesia? I have mentioned this over...

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Indonesians and Twitter

2013-01-01T18:07:00.001+07:00

Earlier I wrote that Indonesians are switching from Facebook to Twitter. Many - mostly folks from Facebook - don't believe me. Well, what can I say. (I was right in predicting things since late 80s...

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(we have assumed) Control

2012-12-22T08:03:00.000+07:00

as date marked we have planned for the worst it's armageddon as time approached speculation arises it's the end but folks, we have assumed control it's the beginning of a new journye we have...

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Unclear BlackBerry Ads

2012-11-15T20:22:00.000+07:00

By accident I saw BlackBerry ads in Indonesia TV channels. I don't watch Indonesia TV channels that much, by the way. To me, these ads are way off the target. First, there is this ads about...

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On Old Progressive Rock Music

2012-10-27T08:59:00.002+07:00

This morning I was dusting off my old collections. I found this Sally Oldfield - Water Bearer album. Interesting. This was her 1978 album, I think. So I gave it a spin. Lovely. Listening to old...

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Stylish and Chrome Apps

2012-10-12T15:27:00.001+07:00

I love modifying the look and feel of my screen, especially changing the fonts. Many applications (web sites) do not allow the user to change the fonts. They suck! Enter Stylish. It lets me trap the...

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Facebook vs Twitter in Indonesia

2012-10-08T08:59:00.000+07:00

Last time I wrote about the demise of BlackBerry (BB) in Indonesia and no one believed me. As you can see, BB's share is getting smaller and smaller. Android is getting all the attention. This time,...

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Food, food, and more food

2012-09-08T16:02:00.001+07:00

I love taking food photos. I keep most of them for my self. Uploaded, but mostly for archiving purposes. Sometimes I do post food photos just to tease you folks :) Like this one, lamb kebab. I...

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Iceweasel is not Firefox(?)

2012-09-08T13:20:00.002+07:00

Ok here's the deal. I wanted to install Firefox on my Debian machine. I downloaded Firefox directly from Mozilla.org. After tinkering around a bit, since there was an error message related to...

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Goodbye BlackBerry, Welcome Android

2012-07-29T08:31:00.000+07:00

Not long ago, whenever I meet somebody, I was asked for my BlackBerry (BB) pin. These days I rarely got this question. Mobile phone number was asked instead. Facebook notifications also mentioned...

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On being a leader

2012-07-24T09:21:00.001+07:00

Leadership is one of my fav subject. I want to know and write about this topic, but time is so limited right now. Let me throw this issue. Why is now difficult to find a leader? We've seen this in...

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Confusing Seesmic Ping

2012-07-03T11:27:00.000+07:00

I use(d) seesmic to do my tweeting. It has a nice web interface, which I customized so that it uses different fonts and the like. I love it. But, now seesmic is pushing users to use its "seesmic...

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tumblr vs pinterest

2012-06-16T11:52:00.000+07:00

I used to be an avid tumblr user, but these days I use pinterest more often. Pinterest, in my opinion, is tumblr on steroids. The reason I am leaving tumblr is that there is no innovation. Nothing...

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Google+ too much

2012-06-03T13:01:00.002+07:00

I was trying to upload photos through my Google+ but couldn't do it. I have a slow bandwidth and the g+ animation (and downloading of the photos) is just too much. For example, if I want to upload a...

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No response from Foxasia ...

2012-05-17T10:15:00.004+07:00

Few days ago I was watching Castle on TV. There was an advertising saying that if I captured Castle and Beckett in interogation room and send it to foxasia@fox.com I would get a chance to get a copy...

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Nobody Wants to be an Engineer, anymore

2012-05-12T22:07:00.002+07:00

I looked around in my neck of the wood. It seems that youngsters want to become artists, singers, and the like. Basically they want to be in the entertainment industries. Nobody seems to be...

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Eat Now. Diet Tomorrow.

2012-05-09T10:44:00.000+07:00

this is what I have in front of me

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Progress sensation in reading e-book

2012-04-29T16:48:00.000+07:00

Long time ago I asked a friend, what is missing living in a country without four seasons. She said that the sense of progress is what's missing. I guess the same feeling is missing when I am reading...

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Missing from last.fm

2012-04-26T21:52:00.001+07:00

I've been using last.fm to keep track my music (listening) habbit. It has a great statistics. Love it soo much. But things have been like that for ages. There's no new thing. Recently, there are...

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a lost fool

2012-04-19T22:53:00.004+07:00

a fool who was lost and thought was saved but was bleeding maybe even deserves the scars looking for a hiding place to lick wounds or to die in loneliness

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