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I’ll be away for about three weeks from 17 Aug to 10 Sept. I will be in Jakarta and mostly Lampung for the whole time. I will have access to my emails, I will do my best to check them at least once a day, but no guarantees, since I will be rather busy anyway. So, anything not urgent and not related to my research project will have to wait until I get back. Thanks.

Update: I’m back!

….atau: Aksi Prihatin Terhadap “Ada Apa Dengan ….”

• Apakah anda muak, sakit perut, memutar mata atau memukul monitor ketika membaca berita, artikel atau postingan blog yang mengandung frase “Ada Apa Dengan …”?
• Apakah anda heran kenapa itu frase yang berasal dari judul film dari jaman kuda masih dipakeabuse hingga sekarang?
• Apakah anda bingung, “Apa sih bagusnya pake frase gitu?”
• Apakah anda bertanya-tanya kenapa kok hal yang mulanya cute setelah digunakan lebih dari 2-3 kali jadi menyebalkan?
• Apakah anda sudah mematikan kompor sebelum pergi dari rumah tadi pagi?
• Apakah anda mau protes ke saya kenapa judul postingan blog ini menggunakan “Ada Apa Dengan …”?
• Apakah anda ingin mengcopy and paste postingan ini untuk dipost ke blog anda sendiri?
• Apakah anda baru sadar bahwa “Ada Apa Dengan …” jadi tidak lucu lagi setelah ada yang beri tahu?
• Apakah anda berpikir bahwa saya kurang kerjaan?

Jika anda menjawab “iya” ke semua pertanyaan di atas maka, selamat, anda tidak sendirian. Dan saya ingin tahu kalo saya tidak sendirian (mohon beritahu di komentar).

Sudah seminggu ini saya heran kenapa linux.or.id termasuk subdomainnya sepertinya hilang dari indeks Google. Saya sudah cek file robots.txt, tidak ada. Search di Google katanya kemungkinan karena ada redirect, tapi front page linux.or.id tidak diredirect ke mana-mana. Kemungkinan lain menurut Google sih katanya kalau tidak sesuai dengan aturan main Google, misalnya ada situs yang tidak fair dengan menggunakan hidden keywords yang tidak sesuai dengan isinya atau praktek lainnya yang sengaja memanipulasi indeks Google demi kepentingan sendiri, tapi saya tidak terpikir ada di mana kemungkinan seperti ini di linux.or.id, apakah di salah satu subdomainnya?

Barusan saya upgrade Drupal (sistem CMS yang digunakan oleh linux.or.id) ke versi stable terakhir. Entah apa gara-gara tempo hari saya workaround disable xmlrpc waktu ada security bug dan waktu itu belum sempet upgrade.

Ada ide?

I’m working on a school project this semester. The first half of the project is mostly literature review to get some background about the project topic, identify any open issues and try to propose a solution or research to be implemented on the second half of the project. The project topic is, tentatively, Context-Aware Mobile Applications. I will have implemented a working prototype by the end of this semester (around end of November).

The subject coordinator (not my project supervisor) mentioned that one of her students uses blog as a research aid. The student posts his annotations for the literatures as he reviews them. Towards the end he will then use these annotations to summarize, analyze and write a nice report. This seems like an excellent idea. The notes become available from anywhere with internet access, and it is shared with people so they can give comments and/or have discussion about it. An example of such blog is iclouds (choose “Literatures Reviewed” category).

I will probably do the same for my project, for literature reviews as well as progress on the project itself. I’m hoping to post as much as I can about the project as soon as I have the permission from my supervisor. I can only say that I will most likely be developing a mobile application that runs on mobile devices like a PDA, it will most likely be using the .NET Compact Framework since most powerful PDAs or smart phones nowadays use Windows Mobile as the OS, and from what I heard .NET CF is actually not that bad even though it’s from Microsoft. So I’ll definitely be doing something different this time.

Update: Found another blog that is used to record progress for research, coincidentally the topic is very similar to what I’m interested in.