life's like this - avianto's journal

Tomorrow noon I will travel to Rotterdam to meet my friend and together we will travel by car to Brides les Bains to play some ski (although I prefer snowboarding but I'll see).

So until then, happy holiday everyone. I'll try to find some internet connection there but if I can't find it I will be back some time after New Year. See you!!!

Jeffrey Zeldman is one of some people that influenced my way of thinking about web design. Now he redesign his website and it's still amazing. / Read more …

I feel kinda "wintery" today... So, here it is, HOME.avianto.com's Winter Edition. Nothing much to change except the 'feeling' and thanks to my CSS-based layout it only took me less than 2 hours to change it (most of the work are the graphical works, less work on the layout). Well, I hope you like this new layout and right now I have to prepare for my Winter vacation and this new layout is giving you some hints about it ;). / Read more …

I will have christmas break tomorrow for two weeks. I have a plan and if that plan work then I will be doing some travel (with car, bus, train and all of that moving things =P) and it kinda hard to write new entry since I don't know if I will get internet access or not during my trip. But I will report my trip if I have internet access, so pray for me that I will have it during my trip, ok? Until then, have a great holiday everyone!!! / Read more …

I've got my own copy of Designing with Web Standards book by Jeffrey Zeldman yesterday, thanks to Amazon Deutschland's fast delivery. This is a must have book if you are really concerned about the state of the art of designing website: using standards!!! I've been preaching about using standards in my design community (especially among Indonesian web designer) for more than a year now with only small achievement. Most of them just don't care... or too damn lazy to relearn everything. But Zeldman's book give some light for my problem and I think I will be able to stand still / Read more …

I hate to have this kind of feeling. It takes my energy and time... I should be better than this... I know I can... but it just like the inside feeling that corroded and numb your heart everytime the healed wound is touched. It really make me feel so awful... / Read more …

Yesterday will be remembered as "Bike Falling Day" for me and a couple of my friends. I was falling (slipping to be exact) from my bike because most of the road was covered with thin layer of ice and it was so slippery even if you were walking by foot. It happened to me in the front of Musik und Kongreshalle and it just happened that way. The funniest thing (at first I thought that was funny) was the victim of this slippery road was not only me but two of my friend also have slipping and falling bike and / Read more …

Still not convincing why tables for layout is stupid? Well, read this website then. Cool graphic, cool CSS's effect (check the Main Section link) and cool content. If you still not convincing then.. well, see you in the future then ;) / Read more …

When the sun is visible very brightly and the sky have no clouds then you can guess that the temperature will drop below 5°. I called it the trick of nature... The rain actually raise the temperature a little bit but when there is no rain or cloud the temperature is stolen somehow. I've seen it more than twice but it still amaze me how the nature tricks my tropical perception. / Read more …

Today I saw a demonstration in Lübeck and it was the most polite demonstration I ever saw live... well, comparing to the demonstration in Indonesia of course. Too bad I forgot to bring my camera (as usual, it happened quite a lot with me everytime I saw something amazing) so I just standing there watching the crowds moving guarded (read: guarded not assaulted) by the police. If you are interested about what is this demo about read here and you can also read one of my school friend's article. I wish this kind of demonstration is happening in Indonesia... No / Read more …

OK, I resurrected my Photolog after almost 6 months in hibernation =). For now I am just re-post some of the image that already published in my "temporary" gallery. Enjoy the photolog, hope you like the new collection... / Read more …

OK, let me add two websites in this category: Thomas's Warnadunia and William's personal website. Both are using web standards specification, valid HTML and CSS and of course, tableless! Congrats guys, you two have done a very good work =) / Read more …

Today is World Aids Day. / Read more …