Hotel Tertua di Jakarta

Teman-teman di Wisata Kota Toea memaparkan artikel menarik tentang hotel tertua di Jakarta:

PERNAH dengar nama Hotel Sriwijaya? Hotel ini ada di pojokan Jalan Veteran dan Jalan Veteran I, Jakarta Pusat. Dilihat dari Stasiun Juanda, hotel ini berada di sisi kanan tak jauh dari Masjid Istiqlal. Tembok hotel ini memanjang hingga ke Jalan Veteran I mendekati kedai es krim Ragusa.

Hotelnya sampai saat ini masih dibuka untuk umum dan melihat dari komentar di artikel tersebut, harga rata-rata kamarnya Rp 226.000 hingga Rp 510.000.

Saya suka mampir ke Ragusa, tapi kok tidak pernah ngeh dengan hotel ini ya? Kalau begitu, besok-besok saya akan coba singgah dan melihat-lihat. Tampaknya keren juga.

Perangkat Produktivitas untuk Narablog

Blog hanya tren sesa(a)t? Mungkin. Dilihat dari semakin gencarnya para blogger narablog berpindah ke website jejaring sosial seperti Facebook, Twitter, ataupun (God, help us all) Plurk membuat banyak blog terlihat terlantar. Ah, peduli amat. Keringnya post dari para narablog ini mungkin juga hanya tren tren sesa(a)t? Mudah-mudahan ya? Jadi ayo yuk nge-blog lagi.

Untuk membantu, berikut beberapa perangkat produktivitas yang mungkin dapat berfungsi sebagai stimulan bagi para narablog untuk mulai nge-blog lagi

You don’t have to subscribe to the cult of GTD, shave your head and donate all your possessions to David Allen to improve your blogging workflow. Even taking a small amount of time to add some new discoveries to your toolkit now and then can reap long-lasting benefits. Take a look at this list of apps, extensions and other tools that aim to help you save time as a web writer.

Why She Love Mad Men

Victoria Namkung is getting ready and excited for the third season of Mad Men

I love Mad Men. I’ve watched the the show since day one and am counting down till the season three premiere on August 16. And I’m not alone. The show has received 16 Emmy nominations, is a hit with critics and countless friends have recreated themselves in ’60s style thanks to the Mad Men Yourself application on their website. I think many of us wish we could live in that era even if for a day or two.

Well, I’m a “late adopter” of this Mad Men series. I’m still on Season 1. But, just like Victoria (and many others). I’m quite intrigue with this series. Maybe it’s the suits, the hairstyles or the fifties environment. I’m sold. Mad Men, welcome to Pat’s “Series to Watch” list.

PS: Huffington Post, please resize those stretched Mad Men pictures on that post

WriteRoom Reviewed

TUAW wrote a brief review of WriteRoom.

As writing tools go, WriteRoom is about as basic as they get. By default, you get green letters on a black background (see below). I mean a black background — the entire screen goes black, with just a green flashing cursor awaiting your typing.

As you might know WriteRoom is a writing tool for Mac that sole purpose is to help the writer focus on his/her writing. It features a plain basic text view without any disturbance in a form of chat window, e-mails, twitter, and others.

I wrote this blog post using WriteRoom, and it helps me focus on writing the post (rather than switch between Safari tabs)

For Windows user, you might try Q10 that had a similar feature like WriteRoom. Write on.

Things To Do While in Jakarta

Jakarta will always be my favorite city (despite all those traffic and constant chaos in the streets). Here’s a piece written by Aksara Sophiaan from AREA Magazine that list down some of the things you must do to experience Jakarta as a whole cultural bonanza. It’s like one of those “N things to do before you die” minus the die part ….

Known most for its heavy traffic, Jakarta is hardly a typical escapist destination and likelier to be recognized as an economic fortress of the nation. Regardless so, as a melting pot of a variety of culture, Jakarta is founded on the belief of universal functions and aesthetics–a philosophy expected to unify one of the most populated and diversed countries in the world.

by the way, I love this one:

11. Ride on an ontel bicycle to explore Jakarta’s old, historic places: Gedung Mandiri, VOC Galangan, Pelabuhan Sunda Kelapa and many others.

(thanks Icha! )

Half Life 2 Live Action Short Film

The First Live Action Half Life 2 Short Film. Entitled “Escape from City 17″, made by The Purchase Brothers.

The Escape From City 17 short film series is an adaptation based on the Half Life computer game saga by Valve Corporation. Originally envisioned as a project to test out numerous post production techniques, as well as a spec commercial, it ballooned into a multi part series. Filmed guerilla style with no money, no time, no crew, no script, the first two episodes were made from beginning to end on a budget of $500.

The CG is well made, and the action is great. A nice short movie, especially if you’re a Half Life fans

On Football Club Crest

And I thought selling over-priced tickets are just enough, but No! it doesn’t stop there, now the money-leechers are suing blogs and websites who uses football club crests at their sites.

We received a threat from the Evil Galactic Empire’s Premier League’s legal people yesterday, demanding that we stop using all English Premier League club crests here on The Offside, and all UK club crests too.

This is just pure stupid move by those bollocks.

(via SekadarBlog)

The Simpsons Goes HD

The Simpson’s intro is getting a makeover while the series crossover from normal cast to HD in Fox channel.

It’s bigger, longer, and reminds me of a stubborn couch that my friend and I struggled to get into a tiny Boston area apartment yesterday using levers, pulleys and the most important moving day tool of all: Gratuitous swearing.

I just wish Indonesian providers would change to HD services as well. *sigh*

Lost When Drunk

Yaay! the Lost drinking game, where you can channel your frustation on so many mysterious things on Lost to alcoholism!

Take a sip whenever: Someone has daddy issues. (Your father being a malevolent spirit force living on a magical island counts as daddy issues.)

(Via Kottke.)

Mac on Chrome News Update

Google Chrome is getting near on MacOSX. Mike Pinkerton, one of the Google dev team on Mac Chrome project stated that they had new development regarding the project. It seems the tab feature is getting more stabilize through the application. 

As a frequent Google Chrome user in Windows environment, I’m excited hearing this news. If this thing is stable, so long good old Safari on my Leopard system.

(via Cult of Mac)