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Can't Leave Home Without IT

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:18:00 +0000

At last...getting back on this blog again. 3 months without Internet, or at least, without good access to Internet, makes me realize that in this recent time, we actually cannot live without Internet. Hey...we might not realize this at the first, but slowly the effect will surprise you...

That's what I felt about 2 months ago. No internet, no e-mail, no Facebook, no blogging, no browsing, etc. There was a strange feeling when I couldn't connect to the web. It's like something was missing. Or am I addicted to it? I dunno...

So I guess it's true, that we "can't leave home without InTernet"....

Cool Colors - Tataplah

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:08:00 +0000

Check this out...It's an old love song..90's Indonesian pop song, titled "Tataplah" and was sung by a boybands, Cool Colors, which consists of : Surya Saputra, Ari Wibowo, Ari Sihasale and Yohandi Yahya. The song used to be one of many Indonesian hitsongs back in 1995. The band itself didn't last long, just like the other local boysband. Enjoy it..

Tataplah - Cool Colors

Puppet Show - our first production

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:37:00 +0000

On 2007, our church was selected to held a Children's Choir Festival, called PESPARAWI (Pesta Paduan Suara Gerejawi). It's a kind of Choir Festival for Sunday School children.
One day, me and my friend had an idea of making a special opening for the Festival. At the beginning, we didn't take the idea seriously, but later on, we decided to give it a try. We planned to make a short-movie with puppets for the opening. So we made a simple story for that. It didn't take too much in making the movie. Me and my friend played as the puppeteers, then 2 friends of mine took part as an "amateur" cameraman and a soundman. We used an ordinary HandyCam and a common microphone. As for the finishing, another friend helped us in editing the film, using Adobe Premiere. The film took place in our church's yard, so it's kinda easier for us, because we didn't have to find certain location.
Below is the un-edited version of the film, so forgive me if the video quality is not good enough. Next time I'll find the edited version to upload.

This was our first experience in making a puppet-movie. Before this, we always did the puppet show on a puppet-stage. So I guess we really learned a lot from it.
(Since 2004, me and my friends have been performing puppetshows in our church. Usually we performed on some special events , for example : Easter day, Christmas, etc.)

Are Rules Made to be Broken?

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:54:00 +0000

Take a good look at these pics. What would you say?

I took those pics at some location in West Jakarta. They show us how rules are made to be broken. In this case, it's the traffic rules. Yep, that's the reality of Jakarta's traffic condition. People often abandoned those rules, and the sad thing is that most of them did that on purpose and didn't feel sorry about it.

Picture #1 : someone was selling things with his car. It's not wrong at all to do that. What went wrong was, he didn't realize that all of his goods covered the car's brake lamp and sign lamp. Think about it! When he stopped his car, anyone behind it would not see the brake-lamp. It's kinda dangerous, right?

Picture #2 & 3 : oops..!! Some people were going to the wrong direction.. guess what?They did that on purpose...!!!

Picture #4 : another "shortcut-action", someone went to the opposite direction of the traffic. Also notice the bus at the end of a fly-over. The bus driver didn't drop passangers off on a bus-shelter, instead, he chose to drop them off right there! It's a kind of hazardous situation for them, right?

Well...those were only some examples of nowadays-reality about Jakarta's traffic condition.
Can anyone give us the best solution to overcome this phenomenon?(sigh.....).

AdSense Makes Sense :p

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:16:00 +0000

Finally, the AdSense is now on my blog. :)
What's AdSense anyway?
Well, AdSense is an advertisement run by Google and is put on our website. In order to get AdSense on our website, we have to "apply" to Google to get AdSense's code. Once our application is approved by Google, it will give us the HTML code of the AdSense, so that we can attach the ad on our website. In other way, we can say that we monetize our website by providing media for Google to put its advertisement.
As far as I know, there are 3 basic product of AdSense, i.e. : AdSense for Content, AdSense for Search and AdSense for feeds, so you can choose which one is suitable for your site. (CMIIW)
It took me twice to send the "proposal" to Google to get AdSense for my blog. And I've learn one thing :
Don't give up on trying to apply to Google for AdSense. While waiting for your application to be approved by Google, try to make as many posts as you can. Try to write something different, so that Google will find that your blog is interesting enough and deserves the AdSense.
So, I guess it's time for me to maximize my blog's performance...Wish me luck!

Ventriloquist

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:57:00 +0000

Meet Ventriloquist...

Another kind of puppeteer, who can manipulate his/her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere. The word "ventriloquist" is actually formed from the Latin word, "Ventral", which means, stomach or abdomen. And Ventriloquist literally means the "belly-speaker". The question is : does the voice really come from the Ventriloquist's stomach? Well, actually the answer is NO. So, where does this voice come from?

A Ventriloquist is a skilled person who can speak without moving his/her lips. Ventriloquists are also good with their hand in moving the puppet's mouth, synchronously with their own voice. So, what actually happens is that the audience hears the ventriloquists' voice, but sees only the puppet's mouth moving. It is a kind of illusion. And with an "extra-acting-skill", ventriloquists would easily convince the audience that the puppet itself is speaking.

Ventriloquists are different from the ordinary puppeteers. They always perform "visually" together with their puppet, so the audience can see both the ventriloquist and the puppet. As for the ordinary puppeteer, audience can only see their puppets. This what makes me call Ventriloquist, a "true-deceiver" to the audience :)

In addition, there's one difficulty faced by Ventriloquists, which is, they have to speak with their lips slightly separated. So they have to replace the bilabial sounds ("b", "p" and "m") with others. For example, with the dental sounds "v", "t", "d" and "n".

Ventriloquists usually perform in some stand-up comic shows. There are also ventriloquists who perform for kids show.

Multiscan Projector

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:28:00 +0000

Multiscan Projector VPH-1252QM by SONY...

That's it! The 'oldies' SONY video projector back in early 90's. This is the kind of projector I use in my office.

It's a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) Projector, which means, it has 3 small, high-brightness CRTs as the image generating elements. The image is then focused and enlarged onto a screen using a lens kept in front of the CRTs' face. The 3 CRTs are the Red, Green and Blue.The red, green and blue portions of the incoming video signal are processed and sent to the respective CRTs whose images are focused by their lenses to achieve the overall picture on the screen.

Those CRTs have a long service life up to 10,000 hours. Some even says it's up to 20,000 hours. This projector has a superior black level compared to LCD or DLP based projectors, which means, it can produce the blackest blacks of all projector types as well as the full range of color, giving a CRT projector the ability to project the most film-like images of projectors for home use. But CRT Projector is, typically, very large and is not as bright as other types of video projector. So the ability to have a completely dark room is necessary.

Back to this Sony VPH-1252QM, it produces picture with resolution of 1500 x 1200 pixels. It has light output as well as 700 lumen, and On-screen display, which will display adjustment instructions and indications on the screen. This VPH-1252QM also has 4 color systems avalaible i.e. NTSC, PAL, SECAM and NTSC 4.43, which can be selected automatically. In my office, this projector is installed in the opposite direction towards the screen, so a mirror is needed to reflect its light.
I have been operating this projector for 4 years, and I still find it difficult to set up and adjust the projector. It is easier for me to do adjustment with the LCD or DLP based projector. Since the CRT projector houses three projection tubes (red, green, and blue), the tubes need to be aligned so that the projected image does not exhibit color halos and the colors are mixed correctly. Also, if one projection tube fails, all three have to be replaced in order to provide the correct color and brightness balance. In order to set up this projector, I have to do the cross-hair test. This is some sort of test to set up the image produced by this VPH-1252QM. In this adjustment mode, the built-in cross-hair test pattern will be displayed on the screen. If you take a good look at this pattern, there are 3 kind of lines i.e. green line, blue line and red line. All you have to do is to move those lines until they converge to each other and are seen as a white line. If you can't converge those lines, color halos will appear in the picture. It's kinda complicated, you know...because it's hard to see whether the lines are converged or not. Color Halos is like a shadow around the line. It shows up because those 3 colored (RedGreenBlue) lines are not converged perfectly.
FYI, on 2005 we had it changed its 3 CRTs , and one tube cost $600.That means we had to pay $1,800 for the tubes only. Pretty expensive, huh? Sometimes I wonder why it still remains on its service until now. Anyway, we still use this projector to display movies. And when we do this, we need to dim the roomlights. While to display presentation etc., we use an LCD based projector.

Change YouTube Size on your blogpost

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:13:00 +0000

Want to change the size of an embedded-video from YouTube in your blogpost ? Try this one..(hey, I'm still an amateur...so correct me if I'm wrong, okay?)

Open your YouTube video to be inserted in your post. Copy its HTML code (in the red circle)
Create a new post. Add video from YouTube by pasting the embedded HTML code of the video in your create-post box.
Click on "Edit HTML". You will see the HTML code from that YouTube video.
Find the parts that show the width and the height of that video. (see the red arrows).
Change those numbers with the suitable size like you want. Change both, upper and lower parts. Usually YouTube video/object has "425" in width and "344" in height.
Publish post. You can immediately view your blog now.

Hope it works....:)

Ken Lee?

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:06:00 +0000

"Without You" by Mariah Carey.

Have you ever heard of that song? It's a nice song, you know..
But have you ever heard someone sing that song in a very unique way? See this one :

I'm sure you'll laugh at it. But I think we should see that from another point of view.
You see, the girl's name was Valentina Hasan. She followed an audition in Bulgaria. It was an audition for Bulgarian Music Idol, some sort of American Idol, Indonesian Idol, etc. You can see that Valentina was very confident about her performance. Although she didn't understand English, she was determined to sing that song. You can see her expression. She didn't care at all, even when one of the judges laughed. This was something awesome. I call this " a brave action". Not everyone could do this! Infact, Mariah Carey admitted it. Watch this :

And you know what?!? After that "KenLee" surprise, Valentina got another surprise, as the chief of EMI (you know, that famous music-recording company..) contacted the chief of Universal for Bulgaria, in order to find out more about her performance. Pheww..who never know???

Well, at least I can learn one thing : if you are determined to reach something, just follow your heart and don't get bothered with what people think about you. Two thumbs up for Valentina Hasan!

Soto ESTO

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:28:00 +0000

SOTO (often called as sroto, coto, or tauto) is the name of one of many Indonesian food. It's the kind of food that almost every region in Indonesia has, in many different variations. But among those many kinds of soto, they have one thing in common, which is, composed of broth, meat and vegetables. So soto is more like a kind of soup, usually accompanied with rice. There are so many variations of soto, which are commonly differentiated by the meat ingredient in them. For example, soto ayam (chicken soto) and soto daging (beef soto).People in Indonesia also give specific names for many variations of soto, usually based on the location or region where the soto had been made, e.g. Soto Kudus (from Kudus-Central Java), Soto Surabaya (from Surabaya-East Java), Soto Makassar (from Makassar-South Sulawesi), Soto Betawi (from Jakarta), etc.
Soto can have a clear broth, a yellow transparent broth and a coconut-milk broth. The broth is the main part of soto, because it consists some spices like : shallot, garlic, turmeric root, galangal, ginger, coriander, salt and pepper.

This time I want to share about a kind of soto from my hometown, SALATIGA (this is a small town in Central Java, located between cities of Semarang and Solo) .
The name of this famous cuisine from Salatiga is : Soto ESTO. For your information, ESTO is the name of a legendary bus company in Salatiga. ESTO stands for : Eerste Salatigasche Transport Onderneming (it's in Dutch language, I don't know what's that supposed to mean....:p) .So, what's the connection with that bus company anyway?
Well, it is called Soto ESTO because people can buy this soto right in front of ESTO's garage. That's why people of Salatiga used to call it Soto (Garasi) ESTO, or Soto of ESTO's garage.
If you want to buy this soto, don't imagine of a large, comfort & cozy place to eat, cause you will only find a small-size kiosk-like booth. It's only opened from the early morning until 7-8 AM. You have to come early, otherwise, you won't be able to have soto as your breakfast. You won't find this soto in the afternoon nor in the night, because it's only sold in the morning.
This coconut-milk-broth soto is very unique. It's quite spicy and can make you sweat while you're eating it. Together with a glass of hot-tea, this soto will give you such a great sensation of breakfast. You can add some snacks too. There are things that called "kerupuk karak", some sort of crackers made from rice, or "perkedel", that made from potato or something like that (i'm not sure...but still I can assure you how delicious they are..), and many others.
You will feel "hot" when you eat this soto, let alone eating it with chilli..And when the place gets more crowded, that "hot"sensation will increase as you keep on sweating. This food is highly recommended to those who want to have a special-spicy breakfast in the morning.
So, when you visit Salatiga, don't forget to try this delicious cuisine....!!!

PS: it's popular for sure.... here is an example..(thx to adhitsuniverse)

the red-furry-monster, ELMO!

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:11:00 +0000

He's one of my favorite puppet character in Sesame Street, the well-known puppetshow for education in U.S. This little cute-furry-red monster is everybody's sweetheart. What makes him so loveable is of course his voice. Especially when he laughs and giggles...His face is funny too, with those two big-round eyes, showing his innocence, and his weird orange nose LOL. Take a look at this video, and you will find how funny he is.

Do you know the person behind ELMO? It's Kevin Clash. He did the performance of ELMO and also with ELMO's voice. Once you see Kevin, you won't believe that he is really the man behind ELMO. Kevin is probably one of Jim Henson's students. Right, Jim Henson was the big man behind the MuppetShow, back in 80's. No wonder Kevin could play ELMO's character very good indeed. Here's a video showing Kevin Clash being interviewed by Rove McManus on Rove Live.

Puppet Show

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:57:00 +0000

Yes... that's one of my favorite things to do. I like playing handpuppet so much. In fact, I played several performances for SundaySchool children in my church. I usually played with my friends and the performance usually took 3-4 people as puppeteers.

In playing puppet, we often found some difficulties. One of those is to set the best position to play with the puppet. We played with our hand-made-stage that resembled a box, large enough to be filled with 4-5 puppeteers. I will share about the stage later in the next post.
So, it has always been a problem for us to find the best position to play the puppet. We had try 2 different positions, i.e. : sitting and kneeling. There is another way to play it, which is to stand while playing the puppet, but we never try this one.

With the sitting-position, we found that puppeteers wouldn't get tired easily, as they could sit during the show. But in this position, the movement of the puppet was very limited, since they sit on a chair and couldn't move freely.
We tried to overcome this problem with the kneeling-position, so puppeteers could easily move the puppet from the left to the right or up and down. But this position also had a weakness. Puppeteers would get exhausted easily, since they had to kneel down during the show. Sometimes we put a mattress or a pad to support our knees. Yet, we had a problem with our arms. Yes, you can imagine how painful it would be to keep lifting your arm during the show. Anyway, we still try to find the best solution for those problems.

Standing-position could be an alternative in playing handpuppet. I found this method in "Sesame Street" and Jim Henson's "Muppetshow". They played the puppets this way. You can see a clip below, showing the crew were doing rehearsals before the show. But may be it was different since they played it on TVrecording. That means they could set the camera so that the puppeters would not appear on the screen. They could also re-take the scenes or make a scene in several taking. This would save puppeteer's energy during the show.

Isabella Search...

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:10:00 +0000

When I browsed YouTube this morning, I accidently found a song called "Isabella". It reminds me of an Asian pop song from early 90's. It was sang by a Malaysian band named the "SEARCH". Amy was the name of the band's vocalist. Don't get wrong..Amy is "him"! Yes, Amy is a man :D
This song was quite popular in Indonesia at that time. In fact, there was an Indonesian movie with the same title based on this song. And if I'm not mistaken, Nia Zulkarnaen, a-well-known beautiful Indonesian actress played as "Isabella" in that movie (boy..Nia was very cute that time....she still is...hehehee...).
But "Isabella" itself was a kinda' soundtrack of a Malaysian film titled "Fenomena" starred by Amy Search and Ramona Rahman.(CMIIW).

The song's tone is a little bit ballad or kinda-slowrock, BUT it's lyric is very mellow and melancolic. Love and heartbreaking are the main story behind that :(
And if you see the band's on-stage performance, you'll easily find that they were strongly influenced by many 80's and 90's Rockbands , like Queen, Guns 'n Roses, Mr. BIG, Firehouse, etc.

Well... despite of it's "contradictive" style, the song did a very good job to the band. As a matter of fact, many Indonesian people loved it. I too, used to sing it, when I took a bath in the bathroom LOL...xixixixixxx....

Samsung E590 Camera

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:12:00 +0000

Samsung SGH E 590

Yup...that's the type of my mobilephone. My wife gave it to me as a birthday present :)..

This mobilephone is quite awesome despite of its simple design. We can find many useful features in this type. One of those is its camera.
The SGH E590 has a 3MP Camera with AutoFocus and 4x DigitalZoom. Combined with 1.79" Colour LCD Screen (TFT 260K), the E590 is very fun to use in making photos.

Its picture-taking ability is great. And what makes it more fun to use is the "Macro" feature in the camera. Shooting an object at a very close distance would be a little bit difficult to do, especially when you use a camera-phone. But with SGH E590, you can easily do that with the "Macro" mode.
Here are some pictures showing the result of SGH E590's camera in "Macro" mode. I took these pics with my own E590.

Installing WAMP in your Computer

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:23:00 +0000

This time I would like to share about how to install WAMP in our computer.
This is based on my experience as a very very beginner, who knows a little about webserver, hosting, database, etc. I just want to share it. Hope its useful though....:)

WAMP is a package of webserver and database that runs on Windows. WAMP contains : a fully operational webserver i.e. Apache, a database i.e. MySQL, and a scripting language i.e. PHP. These are needed when you want to install Joomla in your computer and use WAMP as your localhost. A localhost is a webserver and assiociated database that is set up directly on your computer or that may be on a local network.
(http://downloads.joomlacode.org/docmanfileversion/1/7/4/17471/1.5_Installation_Manual_version_0.5.pdf)

The first thing you have to do is to download that package. You can download it from : http://www.wampserver.com/en/. It contains Apache ver. 2.2.11, My SQL ver. 5.1.30, and PHP ver. 5.2.8.
Then click on "Download Wamp Server 2". It will be stored in your computer, usually in this location : "C:\wamp".
As soon as you download it to your computer, you can install it.To check whether or not it has been installed, you can open your browser and visit : "http://localhost/". If you have been successful, you should see this :
Now, in the folder "C:\wamp", find a folder named "www" (C:\wamp\www). Open that folder and make a new folder in it. Give the folder name : "Joomla15". So next time you download Joomla 1.5, extract all Joomla's file to that folder (C:\wamp\www\joomla15).
To activate the localhost, just simply click on the "WampServer" icon on your desktop. Then visit "http://localhost/", or click on "Localhost" icon in the Wamp toolbar.

Motorbike Touring

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:53:00 +0000

It was the EMC (Eben-Haezer Motorcycle Community) who first invited the J-RiCo (GKJ Joglo Riders Community) to joined their touring to Purwakarta, East Java.
FYI, both of them are motorcycle communities in 2 churches, i.e. : Gereja Kristen Jawa (GKJ) Eben Haezer (located in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta) and Gereja Kristen Jawa (GKJ) Joglo (located in Joglo, West Jakarta).>>Gereja Kristen Jawa = Javanese Christian Church<< style="font-style: italic;">Notice that the car with sirens was NOT the part of our group. It was just the police escorting a goverment- officer's car.

George Younce-Best Male bassvoice I've ever seen...

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:36:00 +0000

George Younce..

He's the member of the prominent Cathedral Quartet, one of the Southern Gospel vocal groups in U.S. He was the group's bass voice.
I like him very much because of the way he sing and his voice quality.
George's voice is very very special. He could sing very deep and low, and CLEAN too...as low as the guitar bass, played by his group mate, Mark Trammell. He often sang as a lead voice too..It's awesome to see the lead vocal in a vocal group is a bass voice..and George did that very well indeed...
Although he was still singing in his old age, but his deep-low voice stayed the same...amazing...
Thats why I like watching his performance...

These are some of his performance :

My Bike

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:34:00 +0000

This is my bike. Its 2005 Suzuki Shogun 125 SP, with 3B (Black Back Box) :D.
If you meet me on this bike, just wave @ me or turn on your horn, and I'll smile to ya'...

Cathedral Quartet (2)

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:36:00 +0000

Sekali lagi tentang Cathedral Quartet..alias The Cathedral...

Ada satu personil grup ini yang sangat menarik perhatian saya. Dia adalah George Younce, yang menyanyi di posisi bas. Menurut saya, kualitas suara bas nya sangat menawan. Bersih, bulat dan dalam. Bahkan dalam beberapa lagu, bisa menyaingi suara gitar bas yang dimainkan oleh rekannya, Mark Trammell.
Salah satu contoh aksinya ketika menyanyikan suara bas bisa dilihat di sini.
Ternyata suaranya bisa menembus jauh ke bawah. Lagipula dalam video itu-yaitu ketika diadakan reuni mantan personal The Cathedral yang berganti-ganti (kecuali Glen Payne dan George Younce)- usia mereka rata-rata sudah cukup tua. Tapi kualitas vokal mereka sangat terjaga. Salut buat performa mereka.

Saya saja kalau ikut bernyanyi dalam paduan suara kadang kehabisan nafas.....weleh...weleh...jadi malu..hehehehe....

The Cathedral

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:07:00 +0000

Cathedral Quartet...

Have you ever heard that?

Yes, it was one of many Southern Gospel vocal group in the U.S. The group was famous at that time, and still is, I think :D.

Saya belum lama mengetahui tentang grup ini. Gara-gara mampir ke situs YouTube untuk mencari satu lagu rohani yang berjudul "I Know Who Holds Tommorow". Lantas ada salah satu video yang memperlihatkan kebolehan grup yang juga dikenal dengan nama "The Cathedral" sedang menyanyikan lagu itu.

Selama beberapa hari kemudian saya tertarik dengan penampilan grup ini. Hampir setiap hari setelah itu, saya browse ke YouTube untuk mencari lagu-lagu lain yang dinyanyikan oleh The Cathedral. Group yang terdiri dari empat orang pria, dengan konfigurasi person yang berganti-ganti (meskipun yang selalu berganti hanya dua orang, yaitu posisi tenor dan bariton) ini muncul pada tahun 1964. Pentolan utamanya adalah George Younce dan Glen Payne. Anggota-anggota yang lain ada beberapa dan berganti-ganti. Antara lain : Roy Tremble dan George Amon Webster , Kirk Talley dan Mark Trammell, Danny Funderburk, Ernie Haase dan Scott Fowler. Dalam penampilan di panggung, mereka juga sering diiringi oleh seorang pianis bernama Roger Bennet, yang juga tak kalah ciamik dalam memainkan irama-irama Southern Gospel dengan pianonya.

Yang membuat saya terkagum-kagum adalah kemampuan olah vokal mereka yang sangat cantik, ditambah dengan aransemen lagu-lagu yang ciamik. Belum lagi kemampuan mereka, terutama George Younce, untuk membawakan dialog-dialog penuh humor ketika di atas panggung. Juga kemampuan bermain musik ditunjukkan dengan sangat bagus oleh Mark Trammell, yang bermain gitar bas sambil bernyanyi di posisi bariton (1980-1990).

Salah satu penampilan "jadul" mereka, yang kental dengan nuansa Southern Gospel , bisa dilihat di bawah ini :

Install Joomla

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:21:00 +0000

Piuuuhh.........

Akhirnya hari ini berhasil meng-instal Joomla. Berkat bantuan seorang rekan yang memandu langkah demi langkah via chatting.

Hari ini juga pikiranku mulai terbuka dan dapat menangkap gambaran dari proses instalasi Joomla.
Versi yang saya instal hari ini adalah versi 1.5. Sedangkan untuk server, saya pakai WAMP, yang sudah mengandung satu paket yang terdiri atas :
1. Apache version 2.2.11
2. PHP version 5.2.8
3. MySQL version 5.1.30

Meskipun saya sama sekali buta dengan konsep-konsep webserver, PHP, database, My SQL dan sebagainya, tetapi dengan menggunakan Joomla, saya mulai bisa belajar tentang hal-hal itu. Rupanya benar, untuk menggunakan Joomla, tak harus mempunyai background yang mendalam tentang hal-hal tadi. Cuma, supaya lebih bagus, memang sebaiknya kita juga belajar sedikit-sedikit mengenainya. Hmmm..lumayan susah juga, karena orang awam seperti saya, belum mempunyai konsep mapping yang jelas. Masih sepotong-sepotong, dan mencoba menghubung-hubungkan satu dengan yang lain. But its worth to try...

Langkah selanjutnya adalah mulai mengutak-atik Joomla ini demi menghasilkan suatu website yang menarik, dengan menggunakan template-template yang sudah disediakan. Well, I hope I can do that...sudah tak sabar buat menyelesaikannya. Berikutnya mungkin bisa masuk ke urusan domain dan webhost, yang juga tak kalah membuat saya bingung....lha wong sama sekali belum pernah berurusan sama mas "Domain" dan kang "Webhost" itu tadi...

Kita lihat saja nanti...

Try to figure them out...

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:58:00 +0000

This time i'm trying to learn about several things in the virtual world. Things that are new for me. I'm trying to understand the connection between those things, i.e : domain, hosting, webserver, database, CMS and website.
Perhaps someone could help me?

Sidang Klasis XI

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:12:00 +0000

Jumat, 6 Februari 2009

Hari ini adalah hari penting buat gereja saya, Gereja Kristen Jawa Joglo. Hari ini GKJ Joglo menjadi gereja penghimpun untuk event Sidang Gereja-gereja Kristen Jawa Klasis Jakarta Bagian Barat XI. Dihadiri oleh 9 gereja anggota Klasis Jakarta bagian Barat, yaitu GKJ Depok, GKJ Eben Haezer, GKJ Grogol, GKJ Joglo, GKJ Kanaan, GKJ Nehemia, GKJ Pamulang, GKJ Tangerang dan GKJ Yeremia.
(http://www.gkjjoglo.com/pewarta/34-warta-jemaat/219-pewarta-minggu-ke-iv-tanggal-25-januari-2009.html)

Agenda pokok sidang yang berlangsung selama 2 hari ini adalah Ujian Calon Pendeta II GKJ Joglo serta sidang reguler.
Ujian Calon Pendeta II dilaksanakan untuk menguji kelayakan calon pendeta menjadi pendeta ke dua di GKJ Joglo. Sungguh suatu event yang sangat dinantikan oleh warga GKJ Joglo, karena ini berarti melihat kemampuan yang sesungguhnya dari seorang calon pendeta untuk menjadi pendeta ke dua, setelah pendeta pertama yang dalam jangka waktu 2-3 tahun ke depan akan segera memasuki masa emeritus.

Hari ini pula saya ikut terlibat dalam kepanitian sidang, di bagian sekretariat. Sekretariat bertugas untuk menyediakan, memperbanyak atau mencetak semua dokumen yang berkaitan dengan persidangan.
Tulisan ini dibuat ketika persidangan sesi I sedang berlangsung. Maklum, belum banyak permintaan akan dokumen-dokumen...jadi daripada bengong, lebih baik membuat "dokumen" sendiri untuk blog ini :)
Moga-moga di antara persidangan-persidangan hari ini, masih terdapat "celah" untuk curi-curi kesempatan menulis blog ini.

Wedeeeww...di ruangan ga ngapa2in ...nungguinkerjaan...ntar giliran banyak request, pasti ribet dah....xixixxixi....

The First Step

noreply@blogger.com (Oki) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:45:00 +0000

This is the First Step of my Blog. I hope I can learn more, step-by-step. Can't wait for the AdSense too...Hope it will come true...