reNESED: Modifikasi mesin NES

Jika Anda sekarang berumur 20 tahun atau lebih, Anda mungkin pernah bersua dengan mesin console yang dinamakan dengan NES (Nintendo Entertainment System). Di Indonesia sendiri, console ini populer dinamakan dengan nama “Nintendo”.

Javier Segovia lewat situs komunitas Behance Network mengeluarkan suatu gambar konsep mesin NES yang telah ia modifikasi menjadi bentuk yang lebih futuristis. Desain konsepnya ini ia namakan dengan reNESED. Jika dilihat, konsep desain reNESED ini menurut saya sangat keren. Sayang sekali ini masih dalam bentuk konsep saja. Adakah dari pembaca yang tertarik mengimplementasikannya menjadi modifikasi langsung? Saya bersedia membelinya jika memang benar-benar ada.

(via @tirarenton)

Tweetie for Mac

I’ve been using Tweetie for Mac for about sometime now. I tossed Twitteriffic out of the context, since it’s not so fun anymore. Anyway, a native Twitter client supposedly faster than those cross-platform Air-based Twitter clients. So Tweetie is an app to go for me right now in a Mac environment.

Today, they release version 1.2. It supports video recording via iSight, fix some bugs, but brings back those weird white selection background, and they haven’t put any Twitter refresh API yet (I really need those, the default refresh time is way too long)

I still eager to wait for other breakthrough features to this sweet Twitter client app.

Season 5 and What’s Next

Well finally it’s a wrapped, the fifth season of Lost has ended after 17 thrill-riding episodes. I must say that it’s one of the best series of Lost to date. With the nature of time traveling problems which ignites my adrenaline to gruesomely wait episode after episode.

Oh well, the season finale episodes was quite a blast. Damon and Carlton sure knows how to end a season long story. My early excitements for this season has paid well. This season we got ourselves (we as in the fans) a great amount of answers to the some of the mysteries revolving around lost. A few worth mention: The Smoke Monster, the foot statue, the origins of the Dharma stations, the incident, and of course, Jacob.

I don’t want to show details of that, probably most of you haven’t seen it all (why are you still reading this, go watch season 5 now! . But I can guarantee you that it is a great season indeed.

And, now what?

Now, we have to wait like 7-8 months to watch the last season of Lost. So another TV series is the answers to occupy myself and keep my sanity check so I won’t get insane waiting to find the answers from Lost.

While The Big Bang Theory, The Office US, and Smallville was off season, I have to pick a new right shows to fulfill my needs. True Blood (yeah I know, I’m coming in late to watch it) is okay, kinda like a true vampire stories with a twist (awh forget those sparkling vampire!).

And of course I still need to do a Battlestar Galactica marathon too, to the series finale that is (and yes, I’m a bit late for this too)

Gossip Girl? dear God forgive me for having try its first two episodes. It’s like Indonesia’s sinetron but with cuter and gorgeous cast. Erase…

Well, that’s the update alright. Excuse me while I finding myself ways to travel time to January 2010 to watch Lost.

and then.. she said, “Yes”

The Forgotten CD’s

So in a couple of weeks, we the guys in this office will leave this building and move to another building. So it’s time for me to pack my stuff.

When I packed the drawers, I realized that I have a habit to put some of the bought CD’s (that I have ripped to MP3’s) in that drawer. And I haven’t (got the time nor the memory) to brought it home to my CD collection. Not that I left these unheard, since I usually preserve the original one and go listens to the ripped MP3 instead.

Well anyway, here’s the forgotten CD’s that I left in the office in no particular order:

• Weezer – Red Album
• Vox – Pada Awalnya
• Souljah – Bersamamu
• Koil – Blacklight Shines On (Rolling Stone Indonesia bonus CD)
• StraightOut – Forsaken Upon Nemesis
• Interpol – Our Love To Admire
• Dashboard Confessional – The Swiss Army Romance
• Dashboard Confessional – A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
• White Shoes & The Couples Company – Skenario Masa Muda
• Saint Loco – Vision for Transition
• Roxx – Retake (Rolling Stone Indonesia bonus CD)

and now I have to bring this CD on my backpack which already filled with some heavy stuffs. Good Lord, save my backbone…

On Tweet-Up

A tweet-up basically is an offline meet-up between users of a community. In this case the community is Twitter. Here in Jakarta, we formed our own Jakarta Twitter User Group. Consist of many individuals from every kind of realm. We usually do a monthly tweet-up at random dates.

I love doing a tweet-up. For me, tweet-up can bring you trust. You meet people, you getting know them personally, and by that you build trust with each other. The first tweet-up that I attend was back in July with the members of J-Tug. and now seven months later, I have created a personal friendship with most of them.

That’s the thing with offline meet-up, you get to know one another as they were. Not just by their avatar or their post. Now everybody is talking about social media, social web, and social networking. Some would show up and say that they are a social media expert or whatever. They tend to kept occupied on how to keep engaging with your online friends, follower, buddies.

But they probably forgot that the true meaning to this social media tools is to build trust with one another. Yet. in my opinion a true social face-to-face interaction with a real world human being can build trust more effectively than say building up a conversation online.

So here’s my suggestion especially for you that use Twitter and want to “engage” your follower more closely: gather up a twitter user-group meet-up in your town. do some offline activities, go see a movie or make game nights perhaps, you name it,  whatever things that can make you engage with your twitter friends.

On Twitter Friends

It’s been a year and half now. This emerging phenomenon called Twitter doesn’t seem to take aside in the flow of the interweb yet. Okay. I’ve played along with it’s stream of excitement. I can say that I too have become so attracted to it. 

Attracted in ways that I have found interesting things and interesting people out there. People that I can safe to say becoming my close friends. People that I can share some of my thoughts and dreams. Ah, I’m becoming too dramatic now, eh?

Asides from that. If you see on my following and followers list, I wasn’t your typical friends collector. I’m heedfully selecting whom I should follow, and whose in my following list. This conservative step that I took is to show that I wasn’t doing a popularity contest. I’m planning to make a network of close friends, networks that I can share with. 

In the process of doing such things, I admit that my plan wouldn’t be fulfilling. Other activities tend to diverted me focusing on Twitter 100%. In addition, there’s some in and out users that uses Twitter occasionally. People come and go.

What I can admit is yes, I have a close circle of friends in Twitter. Just like this theory proves. Face it, I can’t engage with all of my friends all at once. I usually interact my the inner circles only. You can see the tendency of my tweets is going through that direction.

No, I’m not being selfish at all. It’s simply a matter of how you use Twitter. I have other activities other than Twitter, so I have a short amount of time on using it. Do you expect me to engage all of my following and followers? Certainly not. Yet, it doesn’t mean that I’m not talking with other members. I did that too, though not so frequently.

I can tell you this though, I don’t have any requirements on whom I choose to become the inner circle. It’s part of the process. I’m an open-minded guy, I don’t like rules that are too binding. So, I’m open to everything. If we meant to be close friends, we’re gonna be close friends. Twitter is a tool. One of a tool that connects me in my digital life.

I’m at http://twitter.com/patvandiest btw.

The Second Post

Despite the tragedy that happens in my previous blog state, I was actually abandoned some of my regular blog update before that. Probably that too had ignited the spammers to occupy my idle blog.

Well okay, now it was a thing in the past now is it? Let’s try to move on shall we.

This time the rule for this blog is that there is no rule. In the past, I strict myself on how I would supply the content of this blog. Some topics were okay, some weren’t. Now, I don’t want to strict myself. Although, you still won’t find any rude sarcasm, ultra-hate post in here. I always try to be nice. Always. Being nice is a good thing.

I’ll post everything that I like to post. In every topics that I enthusiastically love. But enough with the promise. Let’s just do it.

I’l stop blabbering right now.

Hello Hello Again!

So here’s the story, about a month ago some stupid spammers bombed my site and succesfully bringing my blog down. They left their with some mess that makes my heart bleed. Screw you spammers!

Then I lost some of my posts and everything in between.

Well okay, enough with the mourning and all. Now here I am, back again, back with a vengeance, with an arsenal, have prepared for this new blog, and strengthen it with some attributes. No spammer, you can’t stop me from blogging, no you can’t.

This is a restart, a reborn, a rebuild. My life, my happiness, my experience, written solemnly through this medium some of us called blog.

Happy Reading everyone!