life's like this - avianto's journal

I should be busy learning and reading hundreds of slides and pages for my final exams. But as usual my twitching brain move to the other side and make me sit down for 4 hours thinkering some design and this is the result.

Now, I have to read and learn seriously...

Creative Commons' Moving Image Contest Winners were announced yesterday! Great videos! (News from A Whole Lotta Nothing) Creative Commons is an organization that invent the Creative Commons License for creative works. I already used one of the license for my photolog as some of you may already noticed. So if you want to publish your creative works online and want to share it but you still want to have some kind of protection for your work, use Creative Commons License. / Read more …

ShaunInman.com. The best tableless layout in my humble opinion and it validates too! / Read more …

Thanks to Keith with his article for giving me that hope. I couldn't agree more... / Read more …

Well, I am getting tired of winter now =). So I change my journal's look to something else and I will hold a high hope for the coming spring! Well, the layout hadn't change much... but I hope I've change the mood. / Read more …

Next week will be the final exams week... *sigh*, one semester already passed and time to face the the truth: If you are in school you must do exams!. Well, yeah... Anyway, I've only two exams tho, but the materials is just a couple of hundreds slides each... *sigh*. Well, wish me luck everyone... / Read more …

Find a hard time to get some colors combination for your whatever purpose? These couple of links, from many resources, should help you out: ColorMatch Remix (fave)Color scheme (fave)Color BlenderColor Schemer - Online Color Scheme GeneratorWeb Color TheoryColor Calculator Have fun! / Read more …

Weird things were happening last night... Me and a couple of friends from school were hanging out at a bar near the school with one of our guest lecturer. After a couple of hours talking, eating and drinking suddenly come a couple of peoples in weird dress and a person wearing a deer costume... It was a promotion event for a branded drink and it was weird... They were dancing, handing out t-shirt, wristband watch, candy and puzzle, taking picture of us with the deer (it turn out that it's a female deer =P). After about 30 minutes or so, / Read more …

Since Monday I have a digital music workshop as a part of my study here in ISNM. The workshop is a collaboration between my school and Musikhochschule Lübeck so the participants are some of the students from both school (6 from ISNM and 8 from MH). It's a great experience, we've learned how to do recording in the real recording studio with real band and even creating our own piece of music using home recording equipment and MIDI software and of course make a couple of new friends from MH. It just feel great to meet other people from outside / Read more …

... are tasteless. Sorry about my honest opinion but that's what I've been experiencing for the last 4 months. My tongue is used to spicier, hotter and aromatic kind of food which is almost have non-exist status in the local cuisines... Lucky for me, Lübeck is rich with Asian restaurant and shop. It have more than 3 Asian store (a new one will open soon), some Asian restaurant (Indian, Japan/Korean/Thailand, China, Turkish and others) and the stock of Asian spices and sauces are plenty... My only problem is that I have only a very small kitchen so it so difficult / Read more …

Institut Teknologi Bandung's (My school where I get my bachelor degree, if you didn't already know) website is using tableless layout now... Nice work, Wid!. Hmm, I wonder if this is the first educational institute website that use tableless layout... Let me know. / Read more …

Mozilla Firefox 0.8 (previously known as Mozilla Firebird) and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 were released yesterday (and it sure melted down the Mozilla's server). Firefox is an amazing web browser and if you are in Windows platform, just change your default browser to Firefox... you will not regret it. For Thunderbird, well, if you like living on the edge like me... you'll love Thunderbird =). / Read more …

Web Standards Awards. Should I said more? / Read more …

Well, another new version of my front page and it's 100% created on Mac =). As usual IE6/Win gave me quite a hell by making an additional 3px gap betwen divs... and thanks to Google I found this solution. Now I can go back buried my head in school's assignment... / Read more …

OK, it's been a while since I did my rants... Why... why some people have a hard time just to admit that they are making mistake? Instead of blaming on something or someone else? Just say "I am sorry, I've made a mistake" instead of "Well, it supposed not work like this but since I use that then the result is like this"... Why is that? Well, I guess I just fed up with those kind of people... Maybe I should ignore them anyway... / Read more …

Transmediale was great... It's so inspiring, entertaining and exhausting =). So yeah, I have a couple of inspiration that I will try to digest and make sense out of it then maybe I can create something out of that experience or just expand my last project, Play, and extend it to the new level of perception and add more scientific approach to it... Well, I will work on it sometime later, all of this school's assignment just become too hectic and overwhelmed. Well, it almost the end of the semester... Amazing isn't it how time move so fast? / Read more …