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Huh? What’s that? Yeah, it is kinda strange word, isn’t it? It’s one of my class here at my school. Yeah? So? What’s that?

Well… It is a huge topic to be discussed but you can read this article to get a basic understanding about it.

It is a really interesting topic and it really open our mind to some new (well, it’s not so new, what is new anyway?) ideas that could improve, enhance or even change the human behaviour. Is it good or bad? Hmm, it’s the technology and as we all almost agree that the technology is a dual edged sword…

I will post more about my finding in this particular topic as I progressing in my lecture especially in the area of “user interface of ubiquitous computing” because it will transform the way the user interface is designed nowadays since if it is ubiquitous, do we need an interface? Interesting eh? I’ll write more later.

I have a very interesting discussion about ‘talent’ in Godote’s Forum. I used to believe in ‘talent’ but nowadays the concept of ‘talent’ seems a little bit annoying and useless. What if you have talent? Makes you better than other people? How to ‘measure’ your talent? Scalable from 1 to 10? And what happened if your talent scores lower than the other? Is that make you ‘less’ talented? See the absurdity of the concept of talent? Why don’t we just do what we like or want to do and put a real hard work on that? I think that probably / Read more …

Well, I have decided to change some small things on this website of mine. First of all, it’s all about consistency. By now you probably already notice the new navigation bar on top of the website and it will show up in every avianto.com websites like this journal and my photolog. Second, avianto.com is a participant in May 1st Reboot. So, new layout is on the way. Third, I also change the size of the photos in Photolog. They will be bigger now. Hopefully they will be load as fast as the previous size… Let me know if you feel / Read more …

One of the good thing about attending the international school is meeting many people from different background and cultures. It is an interesting way to learn good international interaction. But… It’s really a pain in the neck when someone use that cultural differences as a shield to their own ignorance and stupidity. They always use that cultural stuff as their argument why they are acting like an asshole. They always asked to be respected for their own culture but in the other hand they are not even pay any respect to other culture that probably too different to them. They / Read more …

If you’re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don’t like. William Feather Find that quote from one of Dunstan’s entry. And that exatcly the way I feel this time. Being kind was not one of may natural habits a couple of months ago. I used to be called rude, cynical, pesimistic and other “unkind” habits but since some shaking experiences and a totally change environment I’ve been thru months ago I do really trying to be kind. Kind to the world, people, my life and everything. But today I really feel a little bit annoyed with / Read more …

It’s 29 in German… And that is the age that I achieved yesterday. The last bastion before jumping into the 30’s. Lots of questions popping in my head as I reach the border of my 20’s years. What did I already achieved? Did I’ve done something significant in my life? Did I actually made some differences? Those kind of questions always be my major questions in life, universe and everything else. So, I’ll do time travel to the future just like everyone else… one minute at a time. / Read more …

OK, so I fixed my Photolog and also made a new layout for it. It was hard to update the photos every day since I found that my camera is rather cumbersome for me to carry it everyday. So I am thinking about buying a cheap and small yet compact digital camera so I could carry it around everyday and keep my not-so-compact one for some very serious events. So, until then I am truly sorry for the lack of updates on the photolog but enjoy the new layout =) / Read more …

Like science-fiction? Recently I watch Firefly, thanks to this man for his recommendation, which turn out to be a really good TV series. Too bad it was cancelled after one season, I wonder why because it is a good series. It’s not typically your spaceship science-fiction series, it have a western-cowboy-gunshot twist on it which I found quite amusing. Anyway, if you have luck to get a hand on the DVD, just watch it… It will worth your time =). / Read more …

It’s second semester already. Already attended 2 classes, which are quite interesting. So, the summer semester was already began but the weather still kinda sort-of-winter… Nothing much interested beside my school lately. Some ripples in the wave of life, my life, other’s life but it still manageable. As long as we always move on… Life will be just fine… / Read more …

Six months already passed since I step my feet on German soil. It's been a pleasant experience, of course some up and down happening in those times but still pleasant enough to make me thankful for all of this experience. The spring should come soon... It also make me remember the first cold breeze I felt in my face when I walked out from Frankfurt International Airport. I remember those time quite clearly... Feeling strange, out of place, disoriented and a little bit scared. Six months laters... I know this place may not quite paradise but it sure feels like / Read more …

Every April 1st there are always something fishy going on around especially on the Web. So I collected a couple of cute jokes around, some of them are so obvious and some of them are just plain clever… some of them are geeks joke and some of them are just joke… whatever that is, just remember: Today is April 1st, anything can happened. I plan to update this tomorrow or after that, because I am a little bit preoccupied right now. So here we go: From the infamous Slashdot, so yeah most of the jokes are geeky jokes (read: it / Read more …