life's like this - avianto's journal

The Why and How of Blogging by Nick Finck. Hmm, I didn't even realize that bloggin' will be this important when I was started it officially back in September 3rd 2000.

Hope you all not too bored with my rants about web standards =). After my last curiosity research, I've been doing more intensive research on a couple of Indonesian Web Developers, especially the big players. And I am not so surprised that NONE of them, including some new so-called web developer, passed the validation test (including my office *sigh* - and it is out of my jurisdiction). In fact some of them have obsolete website... Hmm, I just wondering are they too busy developing other people website so they are forgotten their own? It's ironic indeed... If they don't care / Read more …

Chris Bishop - her! is a very cute comicstrips. It's about a girl and a pig (with sunglasses), yes... it is the pig who wears sunglasses. And visit the creator's website too. He is a very talented ilustrator... Great collection there. / Read more …

Movable Type Meetup is scheduled for Monday, August 11 at 7 pm. Hmm, just wondering are there any Jakarta's MT user interested to hang out at that time? Let me know if you are interested... / Read more …

If you read my previous entry then you already know my opinion about the separation between graphic design and web design. So it was a pleasant surprise when one of my regularly reading weblog (D. Keith Robinson's weblog) wrote about that particular issue. Keith's article "Learning Web Design" is all I want to say in the previous entry that I already mentioned. Read it... and get the enlightenment. / Read more …

An excerpt from Life, the Universe and Everything: Arthur Dent said: "... but the question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-Two, which is a little aggravating..." 42? Now the answer to that question is... / Read more …

Notice the Regular Reading box below the Recent Book? It contains some of my regular worth reading websites. Some people asking me what are my regular reading websites, so there they are... Give them a visit (and read them too of course), it will worth your time. Been thinking about adding this feature for awhile. I could make it easier using Blogrolling or blo.gs but they are not exactly what I need and want (Not they are bad but I have greater expectation). After some furious searching and some frustration, finally I found the article: How to make a quick / Read more …

with this weblog/journal: Make it XHTML 1.1 Strict.Create templates that looks very different from each other (not just colors and images but layout too)Try to use 'categories'.Add somekind of blogroll already done!... some small stuff Will do it as soon as I have some free time. / Read more …

Yes, people. AOL kills Netscape. But Mozilla still lives and continue to be developed and supported by Mozilla Foundation. So... IE is dead and Netscape is dead. Well, we still got plenty of good browser around... Long live good browser! / Read more …

I love Movable Type, it has so many features and easy to configure. Well, it is kinda big on the size but worth every kilobytes. Been thinking awhile for a donation but *damn* it, I can't use PayPal or Amazon because I live in the country that blacklisted as a 'credit-card-fraud-a-lot country' =(. Well, recently Matthew Haughey wrote about some other ways to use MT not just for blogging. You can read it here. Good articles and really make me thinking about some new ideas. Thanks Matt... =) Updates: Douglas Bowman wrote another article about this topic related to his / Read more …

Have your own weblog/journal/blog? Then check NITLE Weblog Census and search is your weblog/journal/blog already censused? Mine did... =) / Read more …

Here is a dialog: B: I love it, let's go! A: Want to watch it now? B: This review said it was a good movie. A: What do you think about that movie? B: Reading a review about this movie. A: What are you doing? B: Fine, thank you. A: Hello! How are you today? Make sense? No? Well, this is what happened if you write your e-mail reply on top of the quoted e-mail entry. This act is called top posting and considered the most annoying thing in e-mail or usenet communication. Thanks to Priyadi for the 'top posting' / Read more …

Dull Saturday and I just happened to find: The dullest blog in the world. / Read more …

Been wondering about what Wiki actually is... Finally, find the understandable definition of it on, guess what, Wikipedia... funny, huh? Now I 'still' partially understand what wiki is... So wiki is... / Read more …

Happy birthday Mom!!! / Read more …

Another fine creation of Stopdesign (Good work, Doug): Adaptive Path's website. Beautiful design and had valid XHTML 1.0 Strict (wow! Strict!!) and CSS. What more can you ask? Doug even mention the process and a few highlights on designing it. More case studies to put into my learning towards implementation of web standards. / Read more …

IndoFirstAid: First Aid First ! is an informational weblog that give education about First Aid and most articles are in Indonesian, which make this website is one of the kind. I always love this 'informational weblog genre' because well, it gives us information about something that we should know. This is Education with a capital E. Keep up the good work! By the way, eliminating that annoying ambulance animated .gif will be a blessing tho... =) / Read more …

I've heard about Blogshares a couple of months ago. Quite interesting features but back then I don't have time to explore it more. Well, that was a mistake... =P It turn out that that game is very interesting. Well, I may not quite grasped the idea. But I am getting there. Will post more about the it later. Right now, so many things to do than just play it. Update: My shares are on sale! Well, they were sold out right now and I am only hold 10% of total shares... Geez... / Read more …

Just watched two episodes of the second season of Six Feet Under. They were great but also getting more depressing... which I found quite good since usually at the end of the season everybody could handle that kind of depression and that will be quite some lessons. I always amazed how the show turn the way we look into the world. I don't know which amaze me more, the fact that the story is about the family of funeral arrangement house or everybody seems quite depressing and had their own disturbing problem or the fact that I feel so close / Read more …

Starting from today, I am now one of the contributors of Ensiklonesia. Thank you very much to the current contributors; Thomas, William and Dadang. Now I can tell the world that Indonesia is not just Bali, Borobudur or Cendrawasih... or Indonesia is not all about riots, distress and corruption (which sadly some of the time is...). Well, now if only I can find something interesting to write about Indonesia. Hmm, maybe I start writing about Jakarta... afterall, this is the city I am currently living. / Read more …

Some people think standarized web design (using XHTML for content and CSS for layout) is very restricting. Some said that sometimes the standard create obstacle to the design itself. Some even said that the standard limiting their creativity... Well, since when the creativity or the design has limit? The standard is not limiting them, they in fact enhance them. Don't believe me? Read on. This is an old news for some of you but since I never post this link here, let me tell you about CSS Zen Garden. I am currently working on the Indonesian translation for it but / Read more …

Are you an Indonesian graphic or web designer? Then participate in Adikarya Desain Indonesia 2003 (Indonesia Design Masterpiece 2003)! Details on the website. One thing that make me quite happy is the separation between graphic design and web designer. I always said that web design is not just 'graphic design on the web'. Web design deserve more that that! Maybe both can be categorized under visual communication design field. I strongly agree that without a good graphic design then a website will be a sore to the eyes but there are more than just 'good looks' to make a good / Read more …

Tired of e-mail spam? I do... And I hope knowspam.net: will help me on this. Try it, so far 20 spam had been detected and deleted. Thanks to Mr. Powazek for the link. / Read more …

Actually this is kinda funny. After I finished reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and announced it on Harry Potter Indonesia mailing list, a reporter from Koran Tempo called me and said that he want to interview me about my 'Harry Potter Book Hunt". So I did and the interview was printed on the first page just below the main news on the next day... =) After that another interview with the same newspaper and suddenly some people recommended me to become a speaker on this event. Oh well, if you are currently in Jakarta and like / Read more …

It's about time I have a new cell phone. After doing some thinking and reading for almost 3 months I've decided to buy Sony Ericsson T68i. This is my second 'state of the art' cell phone since my Siemens S25. This phone, IMHO, is worth every dime. Not too pricey for its great feature, it had Bluetooth™, infra red, GPRS, POP3 mail and extented posibility with digital camera. And mine had 'special edition' grey color. Kewl... / Read more …

Using Movable Type? Then this is news for you because Zempt 0.3 was released a couple of days ago. I am currently using w.bloggar and still happy using it, but Zempt looks very promising so I will give it a try a couple of weeks or so. Btw, I posted this entry using/testing Zempt... / Read more …

I love being a designer but sometimes... well, read this article if you want to know why: How to (and not to) work with a designer. New from RSS's land, FeedDemon Beta is released. Nice feature, will test it for a couple of days before I decided to make it my permanent RSS Feeder (I am currently using Feedreader Alpha). / Read more …