Perez Hilton, not Paris Hilton

Referring to my post in Cash Flow Blogging, Perez Hilton the celebrity blogger gets up to 39,000 unique visitors in Dec. 2006. He doesn't have blood connection or whatsoever with Paris Hilton, but he certainly sells the name Hilton in the internet very well.

"He currently lists at number 21 on the Technorati list of 100 most linked-to blogs. (It's surprising he ranks this high, as others have pointed out.) Michelle Malkin comes in on that list at #11; her traffic, as per Sitemeter, is 4.5 million page views, with 3.6 million visitors last month. Boing Boing ranks at #2 on that list; that site's internal stats say that it got 2.8 million unique visitors and 24.5 million page views last month."

Interesting to see how people can have cash flow, by doing something stupid, fun, funny and/or pissing off others. Let see what else blogs can do in the future.

source: gawker.com

Free templates

Why bother to create your own website, when you can get it for free? The idea to "sell" website templates went directly to trash as i saw this website. They do not only have templates for websites, but also logos and flash websites. Damn cool. Check out: www.templatesbox.com.

The Ting Tings: Glastonbury2007

Another excellent group is born. The ting tings rocked Glastonbury festival 2007 without having any records before. "That's not my name" and the 2 other songs were only being published through myspace.com. Thumbs up for the ting tings.

Meiko Music

Finally a brand new singer with original look, fresh songs and sexy voice is born. Meiko's website is not ready yet, but you can enjoy more of her song in myspace. Below i just put 2 of them for you.

Piano Song:


Reason to love you:

What is...

1. .. the biggest flower on earth?
2. .. the lowest & highest elevation place on earth?
3. .. the highest waterfall in the world?
4. .. the driest place on earth?
5. ...
   

Questions most of us take it for granted, but once you're on it, it's very interesting to know. Google earth community update this for you everyday.

Cash flow blogging

Following my post with cute kittens pictures, i found out that the guy who created the website turn out to quit his job work full time on icanhascheezburger.com. He earns more ever since he created the website on January 2007, than what he got from his work. It's amazing how internet could be your life support source. Guys, be creative and don't be afraid to start it as a joke or something less meaningful. Icanhascheezburger is an example.

Sex education for children

HOWTO: add new mac icons

As stupid as it is, adding new icons in apple computer is unthinkable. I finally figured it out after about half of a day intensive surfing and it goes as follows:

1. Highlight the file on which icon you want to change, click "info". Info can be found by right clicking the file or it also can be found on top of finder.
2. Open the folder where the new icons are saved, highlight the desired icon then click "info".
3. Now you have both windows' info open like this:.
4. Last step is to copy the desired icon by doing command+c on the icon placed on the top side of info window, then do command+v on the the other info window (to be replaced icon). Notice the icons must be blue highlighted like this:
   

That's it!! you've made it... easy hah!! but again it was designed for grannies. You have to change every single icons you want manually and the other thing is, i don't know where the original icons are saved, so there's no way back. Maybe anyone can help me. It sucks. But i suppose, apple has the cutes icons from all OS engine, that it's not necessary to replace them.

If you still wanna try, then you can find the icons in apple's website. Good luck!!

Anti-Piracy

A warning to yous, who love download films from the internet. An anti-piracy machine is running behind it, detecting your IP-Address (lucky for those who don't have a static IP-Address). More about it can be read in: Anti-Piracy Gang Launches their own Video Download Site to Trap People

Milano rocks!!

I can has cheezburger

For all animal lovers, especially cats lovers check this out: i can cheezburger. I am not cats lover at all, but those kittens are so cute. It's a great website. And while people were queuing over a night at Apple stores to get apple latest, most "sophisticated" product the cats are laughing.

iPhone vs. Harry Potter

What is the similarity between iPhone and witches? find the answer over here.

Lobbying

Google just opened a blog to write about any topics related to politic issues (or maybe more). They call it the "lobbying engine". The term lobbying is getting too familiar to me. My new lesson in live. Not easy at all. More difficult than any technical complication, but it's getting interesting somehow. Maybe one day i can do it well. I wonder what kind of personality a person needs to be actually good at it?

A classic dilemma of a currupted country

I am working on a "high tech" controlling system for transportation system in Indonesia, yet the government doesn't seem like interested to invest as much as the research required. The main reason is extra cost on maintenance and/or operation. To increase the ticket fare is not solution in this case, seeing that most of people who uses the public transportation is common people with little food and home. So here we go, facing a dilemma. On one side, implementing the system guarantees the safety on traveling, but on the other side, who cares about safety when stomach cries for food?

One way to rise the economy of a country is to use more technologies, but to do that, they need a healthy community. It's not too difficult to get a family healthy, but the question is how to get hunderd of thousand of families healthy. Thus each of family tries with their own "power" to get a better life by do rights and (some/most of them) wrongs. If only the ticket fare was paid each time a passenger uses the service, and if only half of the money of the paid ticket didn't serve private needs of individual, i think it would already solve more than half of the problem.

Will Indonesia be able to take the step?

Indonesian Blog

For my 3-month internship in Jakarta, we have created an extra blog called hari-ini. Hari-ini means today in Indonesian. In that blog you can also find some pictures about all around us. Maybe i can give back the good impression on Indonesian after all bad news that you hear outside the country.

Rusty, the labrador with 69.8kg

Poor Rusty (or lucky?). He got fed too much by 2 UK brothers, which now were found guilty under court process. Look at him saying: "No more food, can't take it anymore". I wonder why dogs can not say no to food. Most of them will just eat and eat and eat.

iPhone

It's finally there. No comments. Watch TV, read news, it's everywhere.

A short shot

Funny how time flies. I was looking forward to this 1 week off from work and now only couple days left before work starts again. It's a good sign. A sign that i enjoy life. But why does life is so short when i am enjoying it and so long when i am in deep shit?

A dilema that everyone has. Stuck on it or work it out. I am learning.

Text processing service from google

Very nice. I am on the stage of writing report about my internship while i am still doing it. A couple of time i wrote part of the my paper at work and at the end of the day i have to send it over to home in case i want to work more on it. The problem is if i forget to send it over like it happened a couple of time, i stuck the whole weekend without it. It's a risk, but Google Docs&Spreadsheet is my answer.

Google Docs&Spreadsheet offers possiblity to publish your work on internet or collaborate it with someone else. The text processing service has basic editing functions, but if you know html good enough the code is editable. Spelling check function is very useful. The spreadsheet has basic math functions. Practical.

Again another good example of AJAX.

Thanks giving

Yesterday was thanks giving party in our apartment. Nothing special. All went like always. Very calm with a lot of eating, talking and laughing. We played board game and a free style game from Gregory. This year however, is not so merry as previous years. Celebrated it with only few good left friends of Mindy. It has been my 4th thanks giving ever and would probably carry on the culture even without Mindy :-)

Happy thanks giving everyone!!