I just finished a personal project which I decided to do in my free time during the holidays. Think of it as my dedication to pro-bono church works. My personal project is the Indonesian version of the Bible. Why? Because I found no Indonesian iPhone/iPod Touch versions of it over the internet, so I decided to make it on my own.

I’ve been using electronic Bibles to reduce my load when going to the church since I used my old Palm Zire 72, and when I moved to the Sony Ericsson K610i afterwards. After I bought the iPod Touch two weeks ago, and got it jailbroken, I figured that with its superb text-rendering capabilities which is far better from my previous gadgets (Thanks to OS X), it can be a good eBook reader with a nice legibility. So why not have a Bible in it?

I’ve set up a dedicated page for it here (which became a reason that I have to spend more time taking care of my personal site) with all of the needed instructions provided. So if you’re an Indonesian, and happened to own an iPhone or an iPod Touch, and needed the bible, feel free to download a copy.

It seems that Erica Sadun of TUAW posted the whole reason for me not to upgrade to Leopard… Yet. I simply can’t risk my productivity over an OS upgrade. Well, patience is a virtue.

I heard that the IMAP feature on Gmail doesn’t come to all its users. Well, in that case, I can consider myself lucky since the IMAP feature on my Gmail account is active. But of course, sometimes luck comes with a catch. In my case, it’s the speed.

Actually, with my current line of work, I’m not a too mobile person. 75% of our clients are abroad, so we basically communicate with them using emails or instant messengers. In another word, we are required to be stationery on our workstations with a good internet connection and that’s it. But even though I’m not that mobile, I could appreciate if, let’s say, I have to check my emails on the road using my iBook, or the iPhone (should I got it by the time it gets here), the mailbox syncs automatically with all of my machines at work, at home, and on the road.

With that thought as my main expected holy grail, I enabled the IMAP feature on my Gmail yesterday, and hoped that I will have a perfectly synced email wherever I am. And yes, the truth hurts, eventhough that we now have a 768k connection, it doesn’t seem to be fast enough to manage the IMAP connection from Gmail. What I get? A constant wait when moving from one mailbox to another, another constant wait when syncing the email info everytime I read a mail, or flag it, or whatever.

As much as I wanted an IMAP feature to simplify my email chores, now I simply have to go back using the good old POP because of the time constraints. What can you say? Indonesia is probably in its baby steps toward the broadband era, but it does still sucks.

I spent this morning, 12AM in the morning to be exact, watching live coverages of the latest WWDC with friends from Godote. I’ve seen the soon-to-be upgrades and features of Leopard on last year’s WWDC keynote, but I must say that they’ve made it even better. If we’re talking about Vista killer, this is the real deal. Never before, an OS X has been this functional, user friendly, fast, intuitive and beautiful at the same time. I am so buying Leopard when it arrives on Apple’s shelves.

I tried to upgrade my blog engine to Movable Type 3.2, but instead of having a smooth clean upgrade, I encountered multiple errors such as missing files, illegal access to the SQL databases, and so on. This might be a result of a different configuration method used by the new MT engine, which I haven’t quite figure out. I wish everything was as simple as software upgrades in a Mac. Oh well, I might as well stick to the 3.17 for the time being…