Senarai Waktu

Ngobrol Pengaya Mozilla

rodin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:44:42 +0000

in English: Mozilla Add-ons Development Talk

Sudah pernah pake Pengaya? Penasaran bagaimana cara pengembangannya? Yuk ketemuan di kampus ITS Sukolilo Surabaya!

Tempat persisnya di Taman Sistem Informasi (sebelah Graha ITS)
Waktu: 24 April 2009 14:00 sehabis jumatan gitu deh!
Pembicara: saya :p, pengembang Purezilla, pengembang HΛnif
Biaya gratis sajalah, tapi ikutan nimbrung ya!
Pendaftaran: silakan isi form di SpreadFirefox.com atau email saja ke kiki [dot] ahmadi [at] gmail [dot] com dengan subjek [MOZREGISTER] beserta nama lengkap dan email, kalau sudah kenal, colek saja di Facebook/YM-nya

Yuk ah ditunggu!

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My Internet is in English

rodin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:23:30 +0000

FreSh Jumat malam kemarin adalah acara pertama saya sebagai anggota komunitas Mozilla untuk tampil sebagai pembicara. Topik yang saya presentasikan adalah tentang sekitar Mozilla Firefox Indonesia dalam hubungannya dengan penggunaan Bahasa Indonesia di Internet. Satu pertanyaan yang mengganjal di pikiran saya selama ini saya keluarkan: mengapa butuh Bahasa Inggris hanya untuk ber-Internet ria?

Tentu saja, menggunakan Bahasa Indonesia dalam perangkat lunak/gadget/situs web s*cks. Although it s*cks for you, maybe it won’t s*ck the other. If you don’t like it, don’t use it . Stop complaining, start to care for other Indonesian people, won’t you?. The web is not only for you, that’s all.

Terima kasih buat Ivan Lanin, Catur, Pitra, dkk. You guys rocks!

Update:

The report is here and here.

Aulia wonders something. What’s the irony actually? Is it just because the topics is about Indonesian language and the speakers doesn’t even bother to use Indonesian language in a right way?

Why English in Websites?

rodin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:02:30 +0000

There are 2 websites mentioned on Okto’s blog (hell yeah, I read those entries at Planet Terasi every day). And I also have take a look at another 2 websites, 2.0 slogan included or a tweet-like functionality expanded.

A friend of mine stares at me when I logon to Facebook with Indonesian user interface. She laughs when she saw my Facebook. You probably heard the term “unduh” lately. Why (not) Bahasa Indonesia?

This question is always popping out of my mind everytime I take a look for Indonesian websites. Is this a cost of <insert Microsoft Windows term here> monoculture (pirate version included) or we are just lazy using computer terms in Indonesian? How many of you installed Indonesian LIP for Windows XP or Vista?

My first highly unscientific guess is that English term is always shorter and we hear it everytime, we saw it everytime, so we use it everytime, and get stuck with it. Even now as early as elementary school. How many elementary students know what is “ponsel“? They call it using its “English” abbreviation, spelled in Indonesian way. Heck, even English people call it “cell phone” or “mobile”, people in Germany call them “handy“, and French are using “portable“.

And then another questions pop out. Are we:

using English because the developer of the website is only know the common UI words for the website in English? (Home, Login, Search, Register, About Us, Back, Top, bla bla bla..)
using English because the target user is the people that already familiar with English websites and using Bahasa Indonesia is just too weird, and make use of it will slowdown our speed to socialize?
using English because we don’t really care who is the target user and we don’t really care as long as I got my job done
using Bahasa Indonesia is not “cool” enough, doesn’t attract people?
promoting English first, Indonesian second?

Why am I complaining? I even wrote this in my poor English.
Maybe I’m OMDO, I don’t have any stat here, do I?

If

rodin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:05:10 +0000

If love is in the air
You’ll always know that you don’t have to worry
That they will always keep their promise wherever they be

From nightly talk with chocolate, grapes, cheese, and ice cream, after enjoying tantuni

One Day in Your Life

rodin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:58:42 +0000

[This madness must come to an end. Between all the memories, all of sudden, I remember this song. The old song, which was in one of my father cassette. The one which the lyrics I can never forget]

One day in your life
You’ll remember a place
Someone’s touching your face
You’ll come back and you’ll look around, you’ll . . .

One day in your life
You’ll remember the love you found here
You’ll remember me somehow
Though you dont’ need me now
I will stay in your heart
And when things fall apart
You’ll remember one day . . .

One day in your life
When you find that you’re always waiting
For a love we used to share
Just call my name, and I’ll be there

You’ll remember me somehow
Though you don’t need me now
I will stay in your heart
And when things fall apart
You’ll remember one day . . .

One day in your life
When you find that you’re always lonely
For a love we used to share
Just call my name, and I’ll be there

[Forget the past, but always learn something from there]

Diproteksi: 23:23

rodin — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:23:07 +0000

so be it

rodin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:40:01 +0000

Pulang, seperti sebuah saran teman
Entah kenapa memang berputar-putar dalam pikiran
.
Girang, sungguh hati senang
Dalam dinginnya winter, menusuk tulang
Dalam suhu minus berselang
Jalan-jalan tetap dijelang
.
Lega, bukanlah kata yang tepat
melukiskan tempat lapang nan luas, kota nan megah
Dalam getaran dingin si winter
Tanpa kehangatan seperti summer
.
Sepi, tanpa adanya teman di sini
Sepi, tanpa teman dalam suka ini
Maya, sepertinya akan selalu begitu
Sepi, sedingin salju
.
Cakap, sikap, tingkah sangat berharga
Beserta rasa, santai, sederhana
Tak perlu tutup, apa adanya
Hanya tinggal satu, penghalang di depan mata
.
Mesra, adalah kata nan bersahaja
Dalam suka dan duka, dalam sedih dan gembira
Pikir sendiri, apa artinya
Buat iri, semua orang di dunia
.
Percaya, bersama niat
Bergandeng dalam hati, rasa, dan pikiran
Maybe I’m wrong, Maybe I’m mistaken
But there’s still always hope, also destiny to be happened
.
Middle, is where the age is
Life is not straight, life is not always straight, when it comes
But there will be beautiness everywhere when we’re enjoying our life,
Thanks’s to everything that has been here and there
.
Dreams and Hardwork,
so be it
.

Sad Love Story

rodin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:00:52 +0000

na meoji salmeul da sseulge
orae dwen maeum alhallge
myeout beoneul je eojyeodo dashi bolgeoya

ch:
oon myeongeum itji angoseo oori reul de ryeo galtende
gateunai gateun gose meggeo jool tende

dda raon ibyeoreun ggeungo
neo ehge moo reupeul ggelgo
cheo eum booteo ojig neo yeosseo
na oh nahdeum sarangeul

back to ch:

a neun ji byeong deun seulpeumeul aneun ji
eon jena reul ga jyeot da mideodo
gatji mothansarangeul
neo eh sarangeul

Mujur

rodin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:01:32 +0000

Apakah kamu,
dengar bisikku.
Dari sebrang laut, di bawah langit biru
Sayangku, kan slalu kucoba

Kanda, daku dengar di mimpi
Bisikanmu, dalam hati
Menjagamu, slalu dalam hatiku
Hanya kamu, mampu membuaiku…

“Ümläüt” ke Hamburg

rodin — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:54:32 +0000