Selah to Hagah

Yeah, right, Bilingual Blogging. I fulfilled my own ‘prophecy’ to be stuck at last November post. And now I’m talking about blog “roadmap” *grin*

Ok, to cut the story short, here comes the updates:

• I only managed to post 1 more entry in my other blog which was in January. And it’s not translated in English.
  Lesson learnt: write in English first, it is much easier to translate to Bahasa.
• I shifted house. That’s recently. Thank God, another miracle: no agent, friendly Indonesian owner, good location, also the first house (and would be the only one had my wife not insisted to look around for more) we visited.
• I and Siska cleaned the previous house. “What’s great about that?” yeah I hear you mumbling. It was an achievement. Big one. We were quite worried that we won’t get the security deposit in full if the house is not clean (having moved around from one house to another in these 5 years, I’ve never gotten my security deposit returned in full - which the landlords were not to blame ). I can’t stress this enough that the previous landlord’s wife is a super-duper-tidy and neato person. When we first came in, the house was literally-amazingly spotless. At first, I myself couldn’t believe that we could really teamed up to clean it back. It’s clean now. Very very clean. Total hours spent: from 1pm - 11:30pm. Rrreally proud to be a great husband and wife
• Going paper - that iPAQ jammed again! But it’s about time I do retro. Not bad at all, my schedule is even more manageable.
• Working real hard.

Along the way, I encountered some ideas, were occasionally thinking outloud, and started to have plan which I will humbly lay down as the Blog Roadmap ™:

• Blog more about my not-fully-exposed techie side, starting with:
  • Blog about Blogging & Blogosphere.
    This will be in tutorial format particularly targeted to my dearest Friendster pals who are I think still clueless about the subject. (in Bahasa)
  • Blog about Firefox and its fabulous selections of extension.
    That’s because soo many people still use the way-too-obsolete IE. (in Bahasa)
• Going Linux.
  Yes.. I’m leaving you, Windows. I’m gonna wipe out my gaming partition and replace it with Ubuntu for the sake of leaving you heh. Basically because: Windows is expensive and Linux is NOT. There’s actually another “noble” & hidden agenda which I’m not too keen to explain now. So, yeah, I’ll go fully Linux in desktop mode. I was thinking to wait another 2 months to let Dapper Drake released but after scolded by Mr. Rahardjo to “just get it done”, I’m willing to take the Flight 5. As a matter of fact, I’m writing this entry from Kororaa Live CD which I downloaded last night to test Xgl (impressive, see the screenshots & video)
• Pet projects.
  This has actually been a target since last year (or even earlier). But since I used WinForms extensively in my current job, I started to see this materializeable. The issue is of course I’ll be unlikely to use .NET anymore if I were to stay in Linux. Some planned projects:
  • Praise & Worship Song/Lyric Library.
    As a worship leader, one of the tasks that sometime takes time is choosing songs. There are already good softwares like OpenSong or other commercial grade ones but all of them come with 1 issue: copyright. Well, I’m not intending to outrightly condone piracy or copyright infringement, but to be real honest, we keep being stuck on, imvho, unnecessary limitation. More often than not, most ministers already have their own private song/lyric library which I believe will fall into fair use category - or at least “personal usage” category (if there’s such category ). So my mission is to let this “private” collection to be shared in p2p manner, preferably via anonymous network like Tor, while at the same time carefully design so that it really is within that “fair use” (or at least that “personal usage”) category. More about this in its own post sometime in the future.
  • Private recording.
    I sing and I play guitar. How good is of course in the ear of behearer But it’s simply because I feel it’s something God has given and not to take for granted.
  • Money making
    There are 3 ways I’m currently looking at:
    • Pro blogging, i.e. get revenue from ads, etc.
    • Create a demandable & profitable shareware
    • Create a web application/service that is buyable by either Google or Yahoo.
      While they’re still in buying spree mood, there’s no better time than now to get involved in web 2.0 wagon.

That’s it. Now, for a start, this post must make its way to Bahasa translation. Quickly.

It’s been way too long since I last blogged. One of the reasons was because I blogged more in Bahasa in my other blog - not that it’s that often, though. The other was the obvious: the comfort of procrastination (or simply: lazy).

After much and long being a reader of others’, I decided to blog in both languages. This is kinda expected, I guess, that eventually most bilingual bloggers will blog in both. I have no idea about the trilingual (or more) ones, though. So, this is my first attempt. Hopefully the percentage of former reason was greater than the later, otherwise this can be one of the last posts before entering hibernation (again) as well..

Actually, I tend to think that the audience of my two blogs is different. In gete ngeblog, I often only passed information I consumed from del.icio.us and other blogs to my friends who are, er.. less tech/comp-literate. While in here, I didn’t feel that I was adding more value by repeating what others had said. Of course I’m aware of the ‘trend/popularity setting’ effect by trackbacking etc. etc… so, yeah, it’s more to the laziness, too.

Although I always dislike and skip links-collection-only-blog-entries, this time I think I can’t avoid to do the same. Trying not to bore you, here are what I find interesting recently:

• The Dilbert Blog
  Scott Adams, Dilbert’s author, recently started to blog. I wasn’t really aware that his witticism is enviable. I like it most when he explained why some of the strips were edited not the way he initially wanted them to be. Lots of insight. He even gave a free ebook titled “God’s Debris” in his last post. Quite fun, although I must agree to many Amazon.com’s reviews that it doesn’t really deliver its claim: thought experiment. To me, at least. But it’s short (128 pages) so still fun.

Uh oh, only this for now - my eyes are heavy. The rest will have to be continued next time. So will the Bahasa post.