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Never Ever Immediately Fall Asleep After Having Meal

Hardono Arifanto — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:58:16 +0000

For this past few days I had discomfort in my throat. There was this feeling of almost-vomiting, like when you super-bloated after too much eating and/or drinking. Another uneasy feeling was the feeling as if you need to burp, but the air is refusing to move up from the gastric.

This uncomfortable feeling is actually quite familiar. I think I experienced it during Ramadhan month, albeit not as bad as now. I suspect it has something to do with immediately sleeping after meal.

So after skimming a number of Wikipedia articles, I found out the 'possibly' correct term for my discomfort as Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease. The mild vomiting-like feeling is called Regurgitation.

Moral of the story:

Never Ever Immediately Fall Asleep After Having Meal
If you really need the sleep, try not to fall-flat in the bed. Sleep in the sofa, or use multiple pillows to make the head in elevated position compared to the stomach
Coffee, or any acidic drinks/foods will amplify the uncomfortable feeling.

So far I did not take any medicine, nor I know any treatment to alleviate the discomfort. The discomfort will be gone by itself in 2-3 days. As long as you didn't repeat to immediately sleep after meal.

Indonesia Won Global Enterprise Challenge (GEC) 2009

Hardono Arifanto — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:30:51 +0000

Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations!

My fellow countrymen has done all of us proud. The team of 6 high school students has claimed the top prize in Global Enterprise Challenge 2009. The team consist of

Wismaya Adi Purnama (SMA Taruna Nusantara Magelang)
Lita Gunawan (SMAK Yahya Bandung)
Rizki Satrio Nugroho (SMA Madania Bogor)
Evelyn Antoinette (Bina Bangsa School Jakarta)
Asyraf Firas Abdurrasyid (SMAN 1 Bandung)
Christa Yona Twedrian (SMA Regina Pacis Bogor)

This year's challenge is to "To produce a working model of an innovative product or service that will reduce food waste in your country and help to alleviate starvation in one of the world’s poorest countries."

Below is the Team Indonesia's presentation (YouTube):

Source:

My Head hurts when Reading News about Iran

Hardono Arifanto — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:30:07 +0000

ARRGGHH... For so long I have this 'blind' conviction that BBC is better than CCN. By better, I mean it's more objective with no hidden agenda. But my oh my.. has my conviction been shaken ...

But today a friend sent me this link that BBC caught in public mass deception regarding Iran's Election. The disputed BBC article is dated 17 June 2009. I don't know this is a coincidence or not, but when Ayatullah Khomenei gave Friday sermon, he called Britain as the most treacherous Iran's enemy. And Britain protested this remark. BBC also has issued a statement regarding this issue.

Anyway, somehow I feel slightly less naïve than yesterday :D

What Should I Do When Microsoft’s Bing is blocked by IWSS?

Hardono Arifanto — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:09:32 +0000

Short answer? Call your network administrator and report the incident. He did not pick up the phone? Send him email, cc his manager if you deem necessary .. Haha, I’m kidding. If you had the same problem as I did, you could advise your Network Administrator, or whoever maintaining the InterScan Web Security Suite [...]

.NET MS Excel Automation Guidelines

Hardono Arifanto — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:44:58 +0000

Recently I had the pleasure to get involved with an MS Excel automation project. The project’s main goal was to read a number of Excel documents in a specific folder, validate their contents, and use the contents to generate a new Excel documents as an output. Although I have been working with ASP.NET Excel automation [...]

Microsoft’s Bing is Bonked by IWSS

Hardono Arifanto — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:48:00 +0000

As reported yesterday, Microsoft's latest search engine reign as no. 2 is only lasted one day.

I never tried Bing before, so today I gave it a try by visiting www.bing.com. Was tempted to search for my own name, but I settled for less narcissistic approach by searching for 'Bing' instead.

The following screenshots are the reason for the title of this post :D

IWSS bonked Bing's Search Result

System Error &H80004005 (-2147467259). Unspecified error

Hardono Arifanto — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:42:48 +0000

This morning something weird happened to me. Every time I opened an Excel document, an error message window popped-up. After googling for a while, I realized that it is related to Excel’s Add-Ins. You can check the Excel’s Add-Ins window (Tools -> Add-Ins), and disable any Add-Ins that previously were not there. Simply un-check the checkbox [...]

Wiener Kaffeehaus

Hardono Arifanto — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:49:15 +0000

As I promised before, I visited Suntec City last Tuesday. I went to Carrefour to visit Wiener Kaffehaus.

So I was standing in front of Wiener Kaffehaus and looking at the pricelist. After slowly skimming through the list of coffee prices, I finally found Kopi Luwak. It listed there that 1 cup for SGD 25, and 100 gr for SGD 62. Jangkrik, I knew Kopi Luwak is expensive, but somehow I feel that $25 for a cup of coffee is too much. My coffee ~~cheapo~~ economical mentality is very likely originated from something that my friend who has recently visited Bali said. He told us that bought one cup of Kopi Luwak in Bali for a mere IDR 30000 (less than SGD 5). That's damn cheap!

I think I'll just wait for my upcoming Bali trip.

*)Jangkrik is the Indonesian word for cricket. It was absorbed from the Javanese language. It is also a very mild swore word and mainly used by East Java people. The Australians however, copied it and change it to Crickey..... :)

Is Twitter Limited to only 100 requests per Hour?

Hardono Arifanto — Sat, 09 May 2009 11:35:22 +0000

I was doing some small modification to Trainque's Twitter Badge when I encounter this error message in Firebug:

Apparently this is a limit for API invocation. ~~Does this mean if a website with twitter badge is visited by more than 100 people per hour, only the first 100 people will see the twitter badge content?~~ After reading this documentation, I finally understand the meaning of this limitation. It means that an IP address cannot request more than 100 API requests per hour. Other way of saying this is, if you keep on refreshing this page for 100 times within 1 hour, you will not be able to see the Twitter Badge content on your 101st refresh. You need to wait until the next hour before you able to see the Twitter Badge Content.

Javascript Regular Expression (Regex) To Match/Replace/Validate URL

Hardono Arifanto — Sat, 09 May 2009 09:02:43 +0000

I need to have a good regex for URL validation in javascript. After googling a number of websites, blogs and forums. The best I found is this blog post by Ivan Porto Carrero

I modified it a bit to make it valid in Javascript as shown below:

twitTxt = twitTxt.replace(/((ht|f)tp(s?)\\:\\/\\/|~\\/|\\/)?(\\w+:\\w+@)?(([-\\w]+\\.)+(com|org|net|gov|mil|biz|info|mobi|name|aero|jobs|museum|travel|[a-z]{2}))(:[\\d]{1,5})?(((\\/([-\\w~!$+|.,=]|%[a-f\\d]{2})+)+|\\/)+|\\?|#)?((\\?([-\\w~!$+|.,*:]|%[a-f\\d{2}])+=([-\\w~!$+|.,*:=]|%[a-f\\d]{2})*)(&([-\\w~!$+|.,*:]|%[a-f\\d{2}])+=([-\\w~!$+|.,*:=]|%[a-f\\d]{2})*)*)*(#([-\\w~!$+|.,*:=]|%[a-f\\d]{2})*)?/, twitRegexCallback);

If you like it, a link back/comments would be much much appreciated :)