He finally relented after years of persuasion. The store finally looks good. This is the APR at Ratu Plaza.
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Twitter book for beginners
A good friend of mine, @Dirgayuza Setiawan recently launched his Twitter book for beginners. If you know anyone who’s just getting into Twitter, it might be a good idea to get them this book even though most of the information is available from Twitter’s own help pages.
The good thing about printed books is that you can read them when there’s no Internet connection. Mashable has a really good free online guide for Twitter but it’s not that useful offline. The PDF version is only readable on the latest version of Adobe Reader which I’m not a fan of. The book is in Indonesian which helps locals understand Twitter better if they’re not that fluent in English. They also won’t need to dig through the help pages at http://twitter.com/help. I’m sure even many seasoned veterans haven’t bothered to look through that section of the site.
It’s a good guide for beginners without getting into more complicated situations.
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Happy Eid Mubarak? A lesson in redundancy
Looks like many Indonesians are just finding out about the term “Eid Mubarak” these last few days. Eid itself means festival or celebration while Mubarak is akin to congratulations. People greet each other with “Eid Mubarak” during the Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Adha, the two big Muslim festivals. The first to mark the end of Ramadhan (literally the breaking of the fast), the second to recognize prophet Ibrahim’s sacrifice of his son Ismail, which the Jews also recognize although if I recall correctly, in their version of events, he sacrificed Isaac instead.
Traditionally Indonesians say, “Selamat Idul Fitri,” or “Happy Idul Fitri,” but this year, the term Eid Mubarak is becoming popular and those who are yet to understand what it means would make the mistake of saying rather redundantly, “Happy Eid Mubarak,” which of course would sound funny to those who understand it. It’s like saying, “ Happy selamat ulang tahun,” or “Selamat happy birthday.”
So next time you see a Muslim relative during Eid, say, “Eid Mubarak,” or simply, “Happy Eid.” There’s no need to combine them.
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Eid Mubarak
Twitter Meme: Failed New Peter Pan Names
So the Indonesian band formerly named Peter Pan now calls themselves Feather Band. Without missing a beat, Indonesians on Twitter caught on and came up with #failednewpeterpannames.
Here are some early ones.
Bitter Fans, Butter Brand, Baking Pan, Maxi Pants, Feather Pants, Father’s Ban, Father’s Pants, Meter Ran, Mother Brand, Father Tan, Banter Can, Foster Friend, Foster Can, Vader Pants, Shower Man, Mowing Lawn, Pinter Kan, Bulu Band, Feeder Band, Feter Fan, Writer Ran.
And here are some of the funny ones as retweeted by @tebakangaring:
Luna Pants, Peed Her Pants, “Beat Her, Man,” Kangen Band, Twitter Fan, Bear Brand, Panci Peter, Feed Her Pants, Freeze Her Pants, Glitter Pants, Laler Gan, Manis Manja Group, Yes We Can, Pinter Pan, Feeder Trans, Feeder Band, Counter Pain, Peder Man, Wet My Pants, Like a Pre Band, Petir Band, Alay Band, Pulpen, Wendy
Click on this link or the hash tag above to keep up with the latest
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Presidential comment of the year
Back story:
At the MTV Video Music Awards, country singer Taylor Swift was on stage to receive an award for the Best Female Video when Kanye West came on stage, took the mic from her and claimed Beyoncé has one of the best videos of all time, twice, then left Swift speechless.
While being interviewed by CNBC, President Obama made an off the record comment calling Kanye West a “jackass” according to a tweet from ABC correspondent Terry Moran. Moran deleted it soon but as always, Twitter never really deletes them from their servers so it was still searchable.
At last year’s VMA, Sacha Baron Cohen flew from the ceiling and planted his ass on Eminem’s face. It was one of the most talked about stunts on TV but MTV later admitted it was staged. Was Kanye’s stunt staged too? Whether it was or not, it got people talking about MTV again.
Guilty, your honor.
Why the new iPod nano can’t take still pictures
“the sensors you need to record video are extremely thin these days—thin enough to fit into the wafer-thin Nano. But the ones with enough resolution for stills, especially with autofocus (like the sensor in the iPhone), are much too thick to cram into a player that’s only .02 inches thick.”
Mobil Pintar
Ironically supported by Singapore Technologies Telemedia.
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