Jullian’s Musings

Last weekend Me and Tian watched Gie in PS21. It was a great movie, and actually the best Indonesian movie I’ve seen for a long time. Afterwards, of course me and Tian discussed the movie endlessly, but what was most intriguing was the differences of young people from Soe Hok Gie’s times with people from the present.
We got the impression that people from that time are better educated, and have not yet been brainwashed because of education under Suharto. They are more likely to read quality books, feel unfoolish to discuss them, and place higher values on logical thinking (instead of religion and beliefs) and ideology.
We young Indonesians I feel should seriously look Gie to seek inspiration not only from Soe Hok Gie, but to look within ourselves whether we have been doing the best with our time on earth or are we just wasting oxygen? I might sound bleak by saying that, but one look around in Jakarta sometimes feel that way, ya know?

I was helping my coworker today moving web domains where I have to log into the domain registration company’s website at http://www.techscape.com. This later turns to be a nightmare when I found out that this website only works with Internet Explorer, under windows and have to have the latest flash plugins available. I had to move computers to the only computer in the office with Windows that was available to me and do my job there. Afterward though, I looked inside the codes for that website, and I tell you,… these people created a web that is classic list of “do-nots” for web design and building:

1. Stupid thing 1: Force people to have flash. At first, I thought that they might be using flash for interacting with databases, but apparently not. They siply use it for banners and eye candy! If they really want to use those crap, why not let people without flash or whatever still access the site?
2. Stupid thing 2: Forcing people to use IE and Windows for no good reason whatsoever
3. Stupid thing 3: No using web standards whatsoever such as DOCTYPE, still using table-based design, and minimal use of CSS. This is just plain uneducated

I would have understand if this is a corporate website for a non-technology company. The problem is, that this is a website for a IT company. I hope they are not an illustration of the present picture of IT in Indonesia, though I’m afraid that it might be somewhat true.

I have just finished uploading some of my wedding pictures to this site. Just click on the Photos Collection link on your right and browse the pictures. Oh yeah, for you who doesn’t understand Indonesian, akad means wedding reception and resepsi means, well, reception. Enjoy the pictures, and comment on those are really welcomed!

For all of you out there who knows me, you know that I like to customize things. However, I don’t have time just yet to customize this website other than changing the pre-built themes from the wordpress repository. So, just to be clear, I am going to change the theme, and I am not pretending that I made this theme you are seeing, hehehehe..