Words of wisdom from T-Mobile customer support over the fact that the G1 Android phone continues to access the Internet even though data roaming, sync, and 3G features were turned off while abroad:
In the end, [the rep’s] advice was that “the phone should have been left in the USA to avoid these charges.”
Astounding.
T-mobile G1: T-Mobile G1 Net Access Can’t Be Turned Off, Results in Huge Roaming Costs
@sutansjahrir: Just heard the news at BBC. Japan surrenders themselves to Alliances. W00t!
@wikana: @sutansjahrir – SRSLY?
@darwis: @sutansjahrir – Yea. Heard it too @ BBC. Kewl.
@sutansjahrir: @wikana – Yep. Tune your radio to BBC.
@wikana: Just heard the news at BBC. T3H NEWS. W00T!
@darwis: That atomic bomb should be helluva gigantic huge.
@chaerulsaleh: @wikana @sutansjahrir – Yep. Just now.
@chaerulsaleh: @sutansjahrir @wikana @darwis – Check your DM. Got something to tell ya.
@darwis: @chaerulsaleh – Net is suck here. Will check the DM later.
@sutansjahrir: @chaerulsaleh – Have read your DM. Anybody following @soekarno here?
@wikana: @sutansjahrir – Got @hatta at my friends list. Will do?
@darwis: Okay. Back online with much better connection 😀
@maeda: Waiting for news from Tokyo
@hatta: Whoa. The news is surprising.
@darwis: @sutansjahrir @chaerulsaleh @wikana – Whoa whoa guys. Should we talk to @maeda first?
@darwis: The Net is pretty suck here. Maybe because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Meh.
@wikana: Welcoming @soekarno. Hello good sir 🙂
@maeda: @darwis – I heard my name being mentioned. What happened? *popped in*
@soekarno: “To be or not to be. That is the question.”
@soekarno: @wikana – Hello to you too 🙂
@wikana: @soekarno – Could you check your DM sir? Some urgent stuffs here.
@soekarno: @wikana – Haz replied your DM. Thanks.
@darwis: @maeda – We might need some of your help.
@maeda: @darwis – Anytime dude.
@wikana: @soekarno – Pray for me, good sir. Was that your final answer?
@wikana: Some stuffs need to be done. Fast.
@soekarno: @wikana – Yes.
@hatta: The press is going crazy.
@maeda: Why I feel such a bad feeling today?
@hatta: @maeda – Hi there. You okay?
@chaerulsaleh: Swift as the wind.
@maeda: @hatta – Yes 🙂 Thanks for the concern.
@maeda: Offline. Tons of things to do.
@sutansjahrir: @maeda – Bye *waves*
@sutansjahrir: “Do or do not, there is no try.”
@hatta: I think bad feeling is contagious. Somehow I feel uneasy too 😐
@hatta: Off now. Need to take rest.
@soekarno: Sleepy. Off now.
@sutansjahrir: @chaerulsaleh @wikana @darwis – Check your DM again guys.
@chaerulsaleh: @sutansjahrir – Have read it. OK.
@wikana: Final decision. Tonight.
@darwis: @sutansjahrir – Right-o.
@soekarno: Online. On my way to Rengasdengklok.
@hatta: Going to Rengasdengklok. Good grief, are these guys never sleep? *yawns*
@soekarno: Wee-hours trip with kids. Wow-zie.
@wikana: Rengasdengklok. Hot debate.
@sutansjahrir: Mr. Ahmad Subarjo is here!
@darwis: I think I just saw flying tables…
@wikana: @darwis – Nobody is throwing tables.
@darwis: @wikana – How did you know? 😛
@wikana: @darwis – Because I sit right beside you. That’s why. And I see the whole thing.
@chaerulsaleh: @wikana @darwis – Good grief you guys.
@sutansjahrir: @wikana @darwis @chaerulsaleh – We sit in the same table yet WE TWEET WITH EACH OTHER?
@soekarno: @sutansjahrir @wikana @darwis @chaerulsaleh – Hi guys 😀
@hatta: Sleepy…
@hatta: The meeting is adjourned. Now we are wondering where we could continue the meeting.
@wikana: Anybody got house that we could go barge in for a meeting? Anybody?
@maeda: Just woke up. The whole gank was in front of me.
@darwis: @maeda – Terribly sorry sir. We need your house for a meeting.
@maeda: Apparently this is the meaning of ‘bad feeling’ that I got this morning 😐
@sutansjahrir: Apparently @maeda haz nice house.
@hatta: Another person coming in. Mr. Nishimura.
@soekarno: Good grief. Another heated up debate.
@maeda: I hate for being in the middle 😐
@hatta: … And I thought being independent is a right for humankind…
@maeda: *yawns*
@soekarno: Would somebody please hand me some bricks to throw?
@hatta: Typing the stuffs down. With @soekarno, @sayutimelik and some other guys.
@soekarno: The text is being typed by @sayutimelik and I need some good coffee now. Thanks.
@hatta: I’m signing history right now.
@soekarno: Completely amazed. Wow. Just wow.
@maeda: Oh. it finished already. Goodie. Breakfast, anyone?
@soekarno: @maeda – Hey, thank you very much 🙂
@hatta: So. Ikada? Naaah, didn’t think so 😐
@soekarno: … And now my house is going to be a part of history.
@soekarno: Need to ask my wife to find the flag that she made several days ago. @fatmawati, have you woke up yet?
@hatta: OTW to @soekarno’s house.
@soekarno: A little bit lunatic at my house 😐
@soekarno: Going giddy about reading a thing that would change this nation’s history forever.
@hatta: @soekarno – Hey, you can do it.
@soekarno: Feeling instant pride deep inside. I will never get tired of it. “Proklamasi…”
@hatta: You know that feeling of pride and awesomeness? Yeah, I’m on it now.
@wikana: @soekarno – WHOAH! CONGRATULATIONS!
@darwis: @soekarno @hatta – GOOD WORK! CONGRATS!
@chaerulsaleh: FREEDOM! FREEDOM FOR ALL!
@sutansjahrir: Just screamed out loud “FREEDOM!” outside. As Archimedes said it, “EUREKA!”
@soekarno: Still humming ‘Indonesia Raya’
Thanks to Wikipedia for the information 🙂
My wife and I named our daughter Fara Allegria Maharani. While I insisted on the name Maharani, my wife picked her first name and we also agreed on using a musical term somewhere in her name a long time before we were even married.
I had no strong feelings for or even against her choice of first name but I did think it was a nice name. She told me it was the name of a wife of one of the prophets. Allegria was from Allegro, a brisk tempo. Maharani means queen.
When she was born, we were blessed with such a joyful, cheerful, playful and happy daughter. Fara has never been short of providing us with such a great time as a family, always finding ways to have fun especially since she’s been able to walk, run, throw things around, laugh, smile, and do things that babies do.
Today, nearly 14 months after Fara was born, my wife Dm’d me over Twitter. She apparently looked up Fara’s first name in various languages and discovered a few things.
Do you know Middle English’s Fara = Beautiful One, Arabic’s Farah = Joy, Afgan’s = Glory, Farsi’s = Joy, happiness, cheerfulness,
no wonder she’s SOOOOOOO GENKI!
beautiful/joy/cheerful, joy/spirited, great queen = sugar high queen?
Sugar-high queen she is. She also runs very fast.
She really does live up to her name. Her uncle calls her Speedy, after Speedy Gonzales. She loves cheese too.
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[Update August 2012]
Fara, if you come across this post, read this blog please? I miss you.
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Jef Ooi, noted Malaysian blogger who visited Indonesia with for Pesta Blogger ‘08 somehow managed to score himself a copy of The Jakarta Globe, (something that apparently even Globe staff has failed to do outside their offices despite having claimed a 50-60 thousand print run) and published this review of the new daily.
I don’t think the Post, with its 28-page configuration including the classified and news and features befitting the appetite of a village paper, could match the Globe in terms of width and depth in content.
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Anyone feel like doing a greeting card/letter/gift exchange?
It almost the end of the year and I suppose throwing a little challenge will be a fun way to close this year.
Here’s how
1. Post this challenge in your own blog, or if you want to bring it to RL put it on the notification board at your dorm/office etc, so you can have as many people to participate.
2. If you’re interested, please let your friend know which exchange you want to take part. Also, please, please, please… find you a bit about the other person you want to send. Trust me, it’ll make life easier that way.
3. Swap address! Make sure you have your postal details. If you feel rather paranoid to post your RL home address in your blog (e.g. Moi!) , you can put your email address instead so your friend know where to contact you and get your address directly from you.
4. Card/letter/gift has to be hand made. Please don’t buy pre-made card/letter/gift from the store, instead, be creative! Make your own card/letter/gift and decorate it with your own hand. It doesn’t have to be too fancy or expensive.
5. Please consider the postal services, too. Don’t send a 10 ton stuff doll you make on your own because… well… I think you get my point. And please, consider the high traffic during the holiday season at the post office. Our postal servicemen and women need some rest, too!
6. Be playful if you want and expect to surprise others.
7. Last but not least…. HAVE FUN and SPREAD THE LOVE & JOY!
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