life's like this - avianto's journal

I am so sorry...

Trouble (Coldplay)

O no, I see,
I spun a web, it's tangled up with me,
And I lost my head,
The thought of all the stupid things I said,
O no what's this?
A spider web, and I'm caught in the middle,
I turned to run,
The thought of all the stupid things I've done,

I never meant to cause you trouble,
And I never meant to do you wrong,
And I, well if I ever caused you trouble,
O no, I never meant to do you harm.

O no I see,
A spider web and it's me in the middle,
So I twist and turn,
Here I am in love in a bubble,

Singing, I never meant to cause you trouble,
I never meant to do you wrong,
And I, well if I ever caused you trouble,
Although I never meant to do you harm.

They spun a web for me,
They spun a web for me,
They spun a web for me.

Out of lazy Sunday boredom, I am doing some small research on a couple of Indonesian personal weblog/journals. I want to see how many of them passed the validation test. I picked a couple of weblog/journals that I consider will pass the test (one of them in fact put the "Valid XHTML 1.0" button on the website). To my disbelief, *none* of them are passed, even the one with the button. Well, it's not a big deal, in fact in everyday life I even won't care about that too as long as it didn't happened to mine. Actually the most / Read more …

My cellphone's SIM Card was damaged and already replaced. No big deal, since my number and my last account were intact but... my cellphone's phonebook was gone, all 100 numbers on it =(. Man... luckily I've made some backup a while ago, but to put it back to my cellphone will take quite some time and no, my cellphone is not those expensive-data-transfer-to-pc-ready... It's a very cheap barebone cellphone that sometimes acting strangely (like shut down itself when failed to send sms... strange, huh?) Oh well, for those who think you should had your phone's number in my phonebook, give / Read more …

After spending a couple of nights at ITCC, Jatiluhur now I am back at my home, sitting in front of my computer, writing this entry. The experience was great. Meeting government officals from all over the country and giving them some introductional lectures about 'what is a good government website' was truly a precious thing. Watching their enthusiasm and asking their question were very exciting and enlightening. I admired everyone of them, their spirit for seeking more knowledge are amazing as showed as they came from far away place like Natuna and Kutai. It was my honor to share my / Read more …

I will go to Jatiluhur in a couple of minutes now. I will be one of the speaker at this event. I will be one of the speaker there and I will talk about "Web Design Introduction: From Information Architecture to Usability". Well. The car is waiting... Will talk about this later in detail. See you soon. / Read more …

Just got it today! Now, if only I can find some spare time to read it... as I said, it's been a very busy week and it still will until the end of this month. Darn... Maybe I should read it tonight... afterall, today is weekend, right? Close the door, turn off the cellphone and stay away from the computer. Time to read... Updates: (Added at 10:49 AM - Jan 22, 2003) OK, so I sleep at 6 AM and only manage to read half of the book, man... this book is very thick, approx. 700 pages. Oh well, still / Read more …

This week I barely had time to relax... And so will the next week... =( *darn*, I just knew it, after complaining about the lack of major activity lately now it seems like all activities are pooling into me. Well, gotta do what you've gotta do, right? *sigh* / Read more …

In case you didn't notice already, I've put a cool (IMHO) feature below the buttons on the right sidebar. This feature is courtesy of Ensiklonesia. It will show some little known or famous facts about my country, Indonesia. I think it is a very good concept since many people didn't know much about those facts. A must have feature for Indonesian. Highly Recommended. / Read more …

Have been replaced IE with Mozilla Firebird as my default browser at home and office for two days and I don't feel like replacing it back to IE (Afteral IE is dead anyway). So now IE will be used only to check my design and/or browsing some unenlightenment website that said "IE only" (darn...). Why Mozilla Firebird? As much as I want to rant about why I choose it, this article tell about it better. Read it and get enlightenment. / Read more …

Lately I've been experiencing some creepy moments. Well, it's not *that* creepy but still kinda make me feel uneasy. It seems like everytime I am thinking that I want something to happened very badly, it really happened. Just this afternoon, I was humming an Indonesian song while drove back home. Then I really want to hear that song played on the radio. So I turn on the car's radio and search for some radio station... after 2 or 3 radio station, I found the radio speaker was talking about the band that played the song I really wanted to hear / Read more …

I've done some cleaning on this website. After reading Mark's articles: 30 days to a more accessible weblog (well, I've been reading this quite some time ago, but didn't have the time to follow it closely), I've decided that this 'accessibility thing' should be applied here. It is my responsibility. Make the website validated is one thing, but make it really accessible to all people is a more bigger thing. So I follow the articles step by step (still on step 15 right now, this is really time consuming, but worth enough). Some I could apply on this website, some / Read more …

Kevin's article: asterisk*: Death Of A Web Team is so true... I've been on that water lately. My company is a very established and well known web company with years of experience, then suddenly this 'advertising agency' proposed design to one of our client and asked us to translate the design into 'web' design. Man... it was a very 'graphic oriented design', so many stupid little things that need tweaked on... and they even propose using 'marquee'... geez, do they know how annoying the marquee is? Darn. It may look good on printed form, but on I don't think it / Read more …

No. I am not ready to write my opinion about Matrix: Reloaded yet. But I found some great links that mention the philosophical aspect of Matrix: Reloaded (Thanks to enda, all links are from his website). Those links are: Matrix Reloaded Explained, hackthematrix, Matrix Essays, Matrix Theories and the official Matrix's Philosophy website. The last but not least is the articles about the analogy of Matrix with the real life™: America's Matrix. / Read more …

Remember High School? When all you care were your own world and your friends? Today I hangout with a couple of my high school's friends (well, 2 of them were my junior high school's friends too). Man, how we are all grown up... =) Budi is working at Department of Foreign Affair, a diplomat will-be, Ganda is working as a programmer at an IT consultant, Ferry still do freelancing architectural stuff right now and Billy, our playboy of the decade, still working at Landscape Division, Local Region Government Office. To our surprise Billy arrived with his fiancee and told us / Read more …

Too lazy to browse your favorite sites one by one just to find some new entries or articles? Nowadays I use RSS to the rescue!!! Using RSS with one of the RSS Readers really save my time. I only visit the website (if they provide the RSS Feed) when I notice some updates. Updates: More RSS Reader HERE. Btw, this is my RSS. / Read more …

IE is dead. D e a d. There will be no new version after IE 6 for Windows and absolutetly no new version after IE 5 for Mac. / Read more …

May your life shine like the brightest morning star. Have and enjoy a good life ahead. I know you can make it come true. The gift. Hope you like it =) / Read more …

Yay! The result of my previous TOEFL was arrived this morning. Finally... The score: 263 (computer based). The details: Listening: 30, Reading: 27, Structure/Writing: 22 (with Essay scored 4.5). I always knew that I am suck with structure and writing, but to my surprise I get almost perfect score on reading and perfect score on listening. Sweet... =) Well. I guess I am ready to step into another part of my life. Applying for postgraduate study... huh? Really, I am thinking about it! Seriously... Wish me luck on searching and applying! Btw, if you somehow know a good postgraduate school / Read more …

avianto.com and all of its subdomain (including this journal) have been down for more than 24 hours recently. I don't know what happened but it seems that the hosting server is having some hardwares malfunction. Seems like everything is back to normal now except my e-mail. It seems that all my e-mails account are not functioning... *sigh* Oh well. I just have to wait and see. / Read more …

Kinda feel Matrixfied* today. So I just typed a new style sheet, composed some custom images and finally crated 'Matrix Theme'. Don't like it? It just a 5 minutes work so pick another themes. Enjoy. *I create this term myself, you won't find it in any dictionary. / Read more …

Just received an annoying news about the HP Hour Quiz. Read the previous entry The TV Station which is TransTV decided that they will be airing our performance on ... JULY 23rd, 2003!!! More than a month from now... not to mention that the prize will be given to us a MONTH after the broadcast. Talking about despotic behaviour. Damn! So this what happened if you win all the prizes, eh? They will postpone it until we don't care about it anymore. Well, so much on winning 2 HP Printers, iPAQ h1910 PDA and Nokia 3530 Cellphone, eh?(yeah, those two / Read more …

Went to see Matrix Reloaded. Great movie! I will write more about my personal opinion about this movie in a couple of days. Some of you may not agree that Reloaded is a great and in par or even greater than the first movie. But let me give you some hints. Try not to watch this movie for the special effects only. Try to watch it as a very metaphysical and philosophical movie with amazing special effects as the bonus. Then I hope you will understand and appreciate it better. Enough about Reloaded. I will write more. Let me continue / Read more …

It's been a couple of busy days. Two rushin' client and one rushin' project. I hope I could enjoy my weekend... For those who working at the bank, I would like to ask a question... Did the bank people always give order at the end of the afternoon and request deadline tomorrow before lunch? Man.. it makes me feel like i am a 24-hours slave... =( I thought we all have so-called office hours. Sorry for my sentiment, but that attitude really get me into the nerve. / Read more …

Who needs image button when you can use XHTML and CSS to create one? More efficient, no multiple request to the server and it will show nicely on text browser. Don't believe me? Look at these cute buttons:  W3C  HTML 1.0  or  MT  Powered  Need more? Learn and get them all from here. Kindly courtesy of pixy. / Read more …

Just read: stopdesign In the Garden: A Design Process Revealed. Great article by douglas bowman. For those who thought that designer is just 'drawing things', read the article, please... thank you. / Read more …

Some photos of Earth, Jupiter, the Moon and others taken by The Mars Global Surveyor. It's amazing to see the earth from outside itself. / Read more …

I am on TV! Well, will be on TV to be exact. Me and my office's comrades (Agrakom) were participating on HP Hour Quiz which will be aired by TransTV on June 4th, 2003 at 22:00 June 11th, 2003 at 22:00 July 23rd, 2003 at 22:00... awh. crap! After waiting for almost 5 hours, we arrived at the studio around 10.00 but the quiz began around 15.00, and almost bored to death, not to mention very irritated and tired, we finally shooting for the quiz. The main task force was consisted of me, Bayu and Andriko. The waiting was worthy / Read more …

Time to review the last couple of years... Time to regain consciousness... Time to consider the path... Because... Hold on Feeling like I'm headed for a breakdown And I don't know why But I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell I know right now you can't tell But stay awhile and maybe then you'll see A different side of me I'm not crazy, I'm just a little impaired I know right now you don't care But soon enough you're gonna think of me And how I used to be... me taken from: Unwell (Matchbox 20) / Read more …