life's like this - avianto's journal

Went to Carleton today. Visited CIMS and met some of the crew.

After that, a bus trip to downtown Ottawa. Apologize to all, I forgot my camera. So yeah, the weather was fine, the scenery was good, the trip was excellent but no photos yet... Sorry. But please do visit Place + Thyme for some nice Ottawa's pictures. It sure helps me to recognize the scenery (at least I recognize the National Library because of this photo).

Anyway, Ottawa is a nice city. It is quaint (the word are stolen from my professor at CIMS). More about Ottawa later. I must get some sleep now.

I am in Ottawa right now. Just arrived yesterday at Dorval, Montreal. Still sufferred from 6 time zones differences but I’ll be fine. Will write more later, right now I am still not myself. / Read more …

I will be leaving Germany tomorrow morning. I will be doing my research for my Master thesis at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Yup, I will cross the Atlantic Ocean this year. I will be staying in Ottawa until January 2005 and will return to Lübeck, Germany to finish my Master thesis. Another chapter of my life, another experience and another journey. Beside doing my research I may look for the opportunity to continue my education after I get my Master degree. Yes, I am interested on getting my Ph.D. Me? Ph.D.? Well, some of you who knew my Bachelor’s / Read more …

First of all, thank you to all of you who wish me luck, I finally got my visa! It’s a working visa, since the regulation said that as a visiting researcher I am basically is an employee of the research department who hosted me, and it valid until the end of January 2005. So, yes, I will leave Germany sometime next week to … Ah, I believe some of you already know where I will be going ;). But I need to get my plane ticket first. Tomorrow I will buy the ticket, it will be damn expensive since it / Read more …

Those three words really work like magic. Who doesn’t want to get rich in a short amount of time? Almost everybody want to be rich. As if the money is the most important thing in the world, well… it is important but is it really the most important? Looks like it tho, for most people and what do you think e-mail spam or scam or fraud is all about? To get rich quick! That’s why! No, of course not you who receive the spam/scam/fraud then believe what they are saying and in the end becoming their victim… And these people / Read more …

Indonesia’s IT scene experienced a couple of interesting events for the last couple of days. The cases of the celebrated IT personas and the reaction. Roy Suryo (as the time of writing this it looks like ‘somebody’ tried to make some editing attempt to eliminate the facts - go figure) is one of the most celebrated IT persona in Indonesia. Credibilty aside, he probably the most celebrated IT persona in Indonesia while we have some people with a lot more credibility like Onno W. Purbo, Budi Rahardjo and a dozen more IT expert who are not under the spotlight of / Read more …

This time Australian Embassy building is the victim =(. Some photos from the site: 1 2 3 4 5 6 - All photos courtesy of detik.com. More “indipendent” photos are here: 1 2 3. Do Indonesian have to suffer more? Here is my personal message for those terrorist: Stop harrassing Indonesian people life! Enough with that terrorism act, we are very very tired with your action. Nothing good will come out from terrorism act like bombing or hostaging, NOTHING. Indonesian people are already suffered enough without this kind of act so stop your action. I really condamned this kind of / Read more …

Why using Gmail? Beside 1GB free space? Beside great filtering system? Beside the labeling concept which surpassing the folder concept? Well, it just feels right =). I only use Gmail for my mailing list purpose and web contact. I am still using my private domain e-mail address for my personal and business purpose because I have my own domain and it just looks more professional. So I really don’t care about those issue about privacy, that Google snoops my e-mail to put an advertising because mailing list is supposed to be public anyway and who in the right mind will / Read more …

Back in Lübeck again. Snowball start to roll now. Many things to do but so little time. Berlin was great. The weather were excellent, quite warm tho but still acceptable. Above 25°C in September, should we be thankful or should we be scared? I am quite afraid tho maybe because I’ve been reading this month edition of National Geographic about Global Warning on the train to and back from Berlin. Human surely know how to damage this small planet… Well… on the other hand, I am still waiting for my visa. The application process was quite hectic but now come / Read more …

I will be going to Berlin this afternoon (or tomorrow early morning if I can’t find the latest train) to apply for a visa. Yeah, I’ll be leaving Germany this month for about 3-4 months for my Master thesis research. I already have my place to do research, a place to stay while I am there although I have to move some of my stuff to Hannover because I give up my old apartment here in Lübeck. So after Berlin everything will be snowballing quick. Many things to prepare but so little time to have. So, wish me luck on / Read more …