I finally got my Alkitab hosted graciously at modmyifone. So if any of you want to install it to your iPhone or iPod Touch, things have just got much more easier. Just open up Installer, install Books.app, and then install the Alkitab.

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.

Last Thursday, UPH faxed me an invitational letter to join in the upcoming UPH Design Week 2007. Basically they’re asking if they can exhibit my final project during the Student’s Exhibition. I’d say, why not and give it a go. I am prepping an authorization letter from the office, though, in case something goes awol.

This is another rant. Unfortunately we are living in a country that makes us capable of producing more rants than compliments in a year. And today, I just had it.

This afternoon, our internet connection was dead again, that is like the tenth time for the past two weeks. Either it’s an afternoon or midnight downtime. I don’t give a crap about it, cable networks are not supposed to be dead during office hours. But here we are facing the loss of connection when we need them for work.

Logically speaking, how is it possible for them to not knowing that their network is down? Well, apparently, that’s the case when I phoned the so-called customer service earlier on. If we talk about good service, Indonesia is probably the last place on earth you want to look for. Nobody here seems to give a shit on the word “Service”. As long as you pay the goddamned bills, you get the to use the facility, with no trust-worthy services whatsoever. Indonesia is the country famous for making everything into money with no aftersales service. Face it. That’s the truth.

And with the monopoly of Kabelvision, as the only cable network provider in our neighborhood, they can just cap the bandwidth to 64K, thus what Indonesians call “broadband”. Well, broadband my ass, when Lippo hands is in the company, rest assured that the company will surely be no brighter than a Neanderthal. We can see the proof of this going on in real life, UPH for example, too much filthy birocracies, plus those Christian indoctrinations that I myself, a Christian, doesn’t like. Next sample, LippoShop, it’s busted. Next sample, Kabelvision, read my post above. Next sample, LinkNet, just look at their website, it doesn’t even look qualified to be an ISP. Oh well, when you’re rich, nobody simply can’t do anything to you, right? Only in Indonesia.

We finally have a company blog. After months of vigorous projects and tiring deadlines, I finally have the time to complete the Neuro-Designs blog. Actually, I’ve already installed WordPress to the server sometime ago, but then I decided to erase it because we haven’t got time to do this now. Hopefully we get to know our clients, friends, and visitors better with our new blog.

Last Sunday, when I got back from church, I found my iMac powered off. This is very weird, since I never, unless I wanted to, turn my iMac off. And remembering that Trixie had the same experience a few days back, I figured out that something did went wrong. And that was proven when it unwantedly powered itself off the second I logged my account in. This could be a faulty power supply, or a logic board. Oh please, let it be the power supply!

Anyway, I backed all my recent projects to Nyonyo’s PowerMac and hoped that it didn’t power off before everything was copied. I also backed up some files to my newly fixed iBook with its supposedly-brand-new logic board, hoping that I don’t have to use the PC to continue my daily work. Unfortunately, my iBook repeats it’s destruction on me again, so here I am, at the same time, losing both my Macs for a while, and stuck on a PC. Trust me, migrating to a Mac for year and back to a PC does feel awkward. I started to look for Expose and Dock, and using Control-Click to interact with it… Geez… Thankfully, before I migrated a year ago, I put the start menu on the top of the screen, so I guess wouldn’t miss finder that much.

This could probably the time for us to buy a Network Attached Storage, so that when things like this happens, we could access our files from just about any computer.

Tomorrow, my iMac (at least) is supposed to have its power supply replaced. I can just hope that the power supply is the last of my problems. My other biggest problem would be this everlasting cough that I’ve been having for almost a week!

The office’s internet connection has been a hassle for a few days already now. We constantly experiencing timeouts, dead connections, server-not-found status, etc on random times. I called Indosat twice today, and as expected, calling to an Indonesian customer service phone line doesn’t exactly solve your problems. By the end of the conversation, she (the call support employee) told me that a virus might cause network problems… Right… On a Mac? Well, there are some viruses available for the Mac, but I don’t think any of them could cause network problems.

Now, you see how PC-minded Indonesia is? Even the largest telecommunications provider doesn’t even know Macs. I feel so sorry for my country.

My clock shows me that it’s almost 3AM again, this must be the 8th consecutive days that I sleep past midnight, I don’t know. While I know that working too late is not good for my health, being a perfectionist workaholic, I just can’t seem to leave my projects until it’s done for the day. It’s probably a good thing from one side, but not on the other. I am constantly trying to find that balance in my life. Apart from that and the tiring work as a designer, in the end, after seeing all of my company’s projects being finalized one by one, it’s all worth it. I’m happy to be able to have a respectable company, reliable partners, and above all, that feeling when you know that you’ve done something for your clients and made their demands possible.

We settle our differences on the alley next to the office… It’s fun to be able to work in the creative industry, ain’t it?

So here it is, after weeks of development. And looking at the date of my last post, it has been exactly a month. This time, let’s hope I could do a better job on maintaining my blog. Basically this site is a redesign from container. with quirks here and there, and a blog engine change to WordPress, which I found a bit less frustrating to customize to my needs. Other than that, I just redesigned the whole layout to a cleaner and a more hygiene look.

As for life, my life is running on a faster pace right now. I have a lot of work in Neuro-Designs after the expansion on July, I still have my ongoing final project and hopefully this would be my last semester on the campus, and I’m the new musical coordinator for the Imago Dei, as well as a caretaker for my church’s Audio Visual Team. Combining all those things in one life could send my heart dropping from the Terror of Tower sometimes.

Another good news also came from JVC when I got my handycam back a while ago, after that unfortunate incident. The bad news is that I have to pay half the price of a new handycam of the same type for the repairs. But nevertheless, it’s still better than having to pay a new handycam after all. So, now we could do those unimportant video projects me and my officemates have been planning…

Oh yeah, Ario Pratomo was selected as BusinessWeek’s Asia’s Best Entrepreneur Under 25. A huge congrats to him!