I knew there got to be a word for it. It’s called the Streisand effect!
The Streisand effect is a phenomenon on the Internet where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires, causing the information to be widely publicized. Examples are attempts to censor a photograph, a file, or even a whole [...]

Pada suatu ketika dunia Internasional dihebohkan dengan penerbitan buku Diet Express oleh Dr. Adam Smith. Di dalam bukunya Dr. Smith mengatakan bahwa kunci utama untuk menjaga kesehatan ideal sangatlah mudah. Yang perlu dilakukan hanyalah minum air putih sebanyak 16 gelas per hari, tanpa perlu memakan sayuran hijau ataupun olahraga teratur. Dalam sekejab buku tersebut laku [...]

Saya baru saja membaca posting dari bapak Budi Rahardjo mengenai Rencana Sensor Internet Indonesia. Seperti sendiri berpendapat bahwa sensor internet tidaklah diperlukan.
Moralitas seharusnya diajarkan dan dibina, bukan dipaksakan. Segala sesuatu yang bersifat paksaan tidak akan menyelesaikan masalah. Bila pikiran positif sudah mengakar kuat maka seseorang akan, memahami mana yang baik dan mana yang buruk. Mana [...]

Did you know that you can easily reopen a recently closed tab in Firefox? I did, unfortunately my colleagues didn’t. They were so fascinated when I demonstrated this feature during a meeting last Friday. Therefore, to educate those who miss it:

Open the “History” menu
Select “Recently Closed Tab”
Act surprised to see that you [...]

Mengalami bermasalah saat update dari Edgy ke Feisty? Saya mendapatkan pesan kesalahan seperti ini saat melakukan upgrade:
http://id.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.bz2: MD5Sum mismatch
Dilihat dari sana sepertinya repository Ubuntu Indonesia masih belum beres. Menurut milisdad: anda bisa mengganti isi sources.list anda secara manual dengan archive.ubuntu.com (bukan id.archive.ubuntu.com).
Tetapi yang tidak mau repot (atau hemat benwit), bisa memesan CD installer+DVD repository lengkap [...]

Baca Beritanya di website Telkom
Quota 3gb hanya Rp 400 rb/bulan. Unlimited plan Rp 750 rb/bulan. Ada pula tarif ala dial-up: 50jam/bulan hanya 200 rb. Enaknya upgrade ke unlimited gak yah?

I got a broken Xvid file that locks up all imaginable Linux-based movie player at the 47th second (yep that’s Totem-Xine, Xine-UI, MPlayer, and VLC). Based on my belief that the file is only partially broken and my desire to watch the movie right away I went out to find a Linux-based Xvid/DivX fixer.
A Synaptic [...]

This is an interesting morning read: Apple - Thoughts on Music.
Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The simplest answer is because DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy. Though the big four music companies [...]

Before we move the management said that everyone would have a VoIP phone. What I had in mind was a regular looking phone that plugs into an Ethernet line instead of the regular phone line. I was wrong. Instead we were given a handset not unlike a cellphone but wired to the PC via USB. [...]

Dear Izzi Pizza,
You have an informative website and I was really grateful to have found it. It was through the website that I was reminded that you have had an outlet in Mall Kelapa Gading, pretty close from where I live.
I (and my family) went to Kelapa Gading Mall 3 earlier tonight and we [...]