Finally I’m arrived at Jakarta. Gosh, quite a journey. It took me a about 14 hours to get to my home. I’m already arrived at my combo dock to took a boat at 6.30am local time (GMT+9), but the boat just left site at 8am. After a little seasickness It took me 2 hours to get to Babo (small airport) to took a chartered flight and my scheduled departure was 10am, but I just left off at 12.30. It took another 2 hours to get from Babo to Sorong (small town which got commercial airliners).
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Finally, after staying for about 172 days in here I’ll be taking my home leave and go back to Jakarta for 2 weeks. But I got strange feeling at the moment, I guess I’m not that much excited as I previously imagined. I even thinking to postpone my leave, but my friends was like “Are you crazy Tes?”. It’s not that I’m not happy or don’t want to go back to Jakarta.
During the first 2-3 months in here I was really excited, can’t wait for that day to come. I was always counting the days, even I got a little program in my iPod touch to calculate exactly how many months, days, hours, minutes to seconds till the day is coming. But after a while, I got really bored and never counts the days. Maybe I just expecting too much from it.
Earlier this week I noticed something different with my internet connection here in my office. Somehow the speed and reliability improved dramatically. I was just thinking, oh, maybe it’s just temporarily glitch, or some other company in another contractor is doing some maintenance work or having problem with their network so there is no bottleneck on the connection. Because its already occurred several times.
UPDATED on 18 April 2008, back to ice age internet.
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I heard in Indonesian news, currently Indonesian government instruct to all ISPs and NAPs to block access to youtube, multiply, metaface, even multiply. It’s caused by the controversial movie called fitna. So the government just decide to block all access to the sites spreading these movies to audience around the world.
Quoted from Wikipedia:
Fitna is a 2008 short film by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders. The film explores Qur’anic motivation for terrorism, Islamic universalism, and Islam in the Netherlands. The film’s title comes from the Arabic word fitna which is used to describe “disagreement and division among people”, or a “test of faith in times of trial”.[1]
On March 27, 2008, Fitna was released to the Internet on the video sharing website Liveleak in Dutch and English versions. The following day, Liveleak removed the film from their servers citing serious threats to their staff. On March 30, Fitna was restored on Liveleak following a security upgrade, but was promptly removed by Wilders after the copyrighted Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons were used without permission. A second edition featuring a new cartoon was released on April 6.
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Ok, it’s official now. I’m changing my site engine to WordPress. In the beginning, I’m reluctant to use WordPress, because almost everyone is using it, and few years ago I tried to use it and I don’t like it. Now I’m really understand why everyone using it, it’s so easy to setup and customize! You can see my geeklog site here.
I’m also finished moving the entire site from rapidvps to dreamhost. I’m moving not because I have a problem with rapidvps, their service is great! very good support/customer service, free of contract, very good uptime, etc.
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