Interesting comment from the forums :

Check this out…a passport is usually good for 10 years…so then, that means this character’s passport was issued on Sept. 11, 1991. And that date is when George Bush Sr. delivered the “New World Order” speech to Congress.

Things that make you go…”hmmm…”

What would President Bush say if, heaven forbid, the Chinese were as rude as he is and asked Mr. Superpower why the land of “freedom and democracy” has one million names on a watch list. China with a population four times as large doesn’t have a watch list with one million names.

More detail at -> http://www.populistamerica.com/do_you_feel_safe_now

The song is “Never gonna give you up”, its a former #1 song in the US, UK and so on. It was a big song way back when in 1987. Howeverrrr… the famous song (video clip) has been a popular prank tools. When a person clicks on the link given and is led to the web page he/she is said to have been “Rickrolled”. By extension, it can also mean playing the song loudly in public in order to be disruptive.

The first time I got pranked was following the link given by blogger regarding the Halo3 review.. It leads to Astley’s video clip. I’m not aware of it, but i do like the song.

And just now, I followed a post in reddit “20 years ago, the youngest, bravest and best in China were brutally murdered while peacrfully demontrating in favor of democracy. We must never forget the Tieneman Square massacre of 1989″. One of the users give a comment :

He’s referring to the slightly less famous one that never quite made its way into the history books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TienemenSquareMassacreof1988

Here’s one example of RickRoll in real life.

I like the song, and with the video clip will makes you smile. You can see the real hilarious 80’s style video clip in YouTube, it’s been viewed more than 16million times.

Rick Roll on You Tube

and this one , don’t click it.. you’ve been warned.

Just a week ago, my buddy Benny recommend me to watch Ted.com. “It’s an Ideas Worth Spreading” he said. And it is.

I subscribe with the podcast. They have a lot of interesting, varies and jawbreaking contents. From technologies, design, entertainment, culture, arts, biological, anything.. So whatever your background is, I really recommend you to go check out Ted.com.

Just a quick hint so you can enjoy the show :

• If you are ipod user, subscribe with their podcast. Here’s the link
• If you more to TV-guy (and you manage to have an HDTV) , catch their hi-res version
• First impression is important, why don’t you start with the Top 10 TedTalks, and let me know what you think. (It’s not like a youtube quality in term of file size, duration and content, but believe me it’s worth it)

I like most of the Top 10 List, but the most stunning and valuable for me is 1 topic that start very slow and bored but really catch me in the end, will share about it in different post. Stay Tune…

Gak pernah kepikir sebelumnya, but this will give you a sense explanation of how he did it.

This is about a hosting company named : WebHost4Life. I’ve been their customers for years, they offer a windows based hosting and there is ‘nothing special’ during my 2 years with webhost4life. Everything run as expected, i can remote the database server - some of hosting companies banned this features *helloo… you are in internet business*, ssl implementation, frontpage support and the reliability reaching 99% if compared in 2 years range server uptime. They also offer the Sharepoint package, and run preety well.

The ‘nothing special’ in web hosting world should have been appreciated in a way that is required a complex server maintenance, monitoring and great customer service behind.

This story started last week, my customer need to build a landing page for huge event in Singapore. Check the .sg domain, and after a week - we finally got a confirmation from AsiaRegistry for my .com.sg and .sg domain. It was another bad experience though, 5 days processing just to get my domain live. Even I need to remind the technical support to process my nameservers changes, something that should be done automatically. And even so, they didn’t reply my email (i will stop it rite now, or this post will be another rant story)

My customer insist to go with Sharepoint for a landing page, which usually not a popular choice. I guess, the decision inspired by SBY who love to take a !popular vote ;o) So, I decided to create a new account under sharepoint plan with WebHost4Life. Everything setup, there’s a bit glitchs here and there but can easily manage by having a Live Chat with their tech support.

The site scheduled to live next week, so we spent the whole week to working it on. And this Friday evening, the corporate marketing decided not to use Sharepoint but standard HTML site. (_ _’)

So open my skype, dial the hotline support, received by answering machine and i’m expected to wait for 20 minutes. Oh no.. Then I tried contacting the support directly using the Live Chat features, handled by Gavinc. I explained him my problem, he recognized it, then boom.. the windows chat suddenly closed. Proceed with the second attempt - and this time I have elainey as the operator.

Guess what, instead of starting my explanation from 0, I asked her a simple question. Can I chat with Gavinc, we were in discussion before my windows closed. She answered “Yes sir, let me transfer with Gavinc”. Remember this is a live chat in a web browser, having this features in a web based application is a jaw-breaking and show some class. They are not only have a good customer service policy, but they have a cool technology to support them. I can see my local time was 4pm and operator time was 5am morning.

This story has the happy ending, 15 minutes after my inquiry with Gavinc - they close my Sharepoint account and transfer my domain to another existing windows based account. Cool, then I don’t need to change my nameservers in AsiaRegistry - otherwise I will have a 3 sleepless nights in a row.

Thank You WH4L for the great service!

(now where were we ? i shouldn’t wrote a post before finish the page.. oh yeah, i’ll let go my weekend anyway)

After rushing from our office in Kemayoran, I finally arrived to Pacific Place. Traffic was so bad due to demonstration happening on my way to Sudirman area. Dude, better save the gov budget for development / education instead of subsidizing the recent oil bubbles.. anyway..

As planned, I have 15minutes or so before my con-call with my peers in Sg start. First things first, I have to find internet connection so I can show our works live. So, there I saw the ‘Free Wifi’ Banner from Cafe Ohlala. Good offer, I don’t have to go to Starbucks in 5th level, save another 5 minutes, I just need the internet anyway.

But, Free doesn’t means 100% free, I paid a starbucks-price for an ice cappucino home made flavour. It’s fair enough, in fact I don’t care with the coffee as my purpose is to get online asap.

Everything should be okay, internet information is posted near the cash register. The security key is ‘ohlala1234′. Open my laptop - “Airport: Scanning..” and we’ve got the Cafe Ohlala Connection in my wireless lists. Choose the connection, and type the security key that I read before in cash register.

‘*******’ - failed!
(show password)
‘ohlala1234′ - failed!
‘ohlala1234′ (type slowly) - failed!
‘ohlala1234′ (type slowly then stroke the enter button hard) - failed!
WTF???!

Are they limiting the number of online users ? No Way.. There only 5 people with laptop in the room.

So I ask the cashier, whether the password correct or not. And she replied “Sorry Sir, this is only if you buy Food & Drink”

This is a coffee shop cafe in Jakarta’s top business district that print a ‘Free Wifi’ banner, place it in the entrance every single morning, and have the policy of ‘Food AND Drink’.

A second when I hear that, I was expecting the cashier to smile and say “We are kidding..”

and, She’s not! She said it’s the new management policy.. and when I ask her, why didn’t you tell me in the first place ? Or at least post a little note to precede the ‘Free Wifi’ offering.. She lost words and cannot make it.

Honey, I’m not paying another just to get 15 minutes internet connection. And if I did buy the food (pastry, soup, croissant or pizza) I will eat instead of browsing rite ?  (??!!)

So I just leave the home-made capyiucyinio to her manager, a treat from your customer. I guess the salesman got a new business. Oh boy… oil bubble!