Agronesia

I’ve downloaded the shiny brand new Firefox 3! Go download it yourself, and to celebrate it try to do these things:

1. Play JavaScript Mario

The classic scrolling game, but now using JavaScript! It isn’t faithful to the original in that we can go backwards though. Play!

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Starting from June 17, 10 a.m PDT, or June 18 in Indonesia, we can download Firefox 3 final! I’m running its latest RC right now, and will of course download it as soon as it becomes available.

They are aiming to be the most software downloaded in 24 hours, and that’s partly the reason I’m hyping it. You can actually pledge to download Firefox, and 1.5 million people have actually pledged. It’s a shame that while Indonesia has almost 2 times the population of Japan, Japan has almost 9 times people pledging! This shows how primitive, or how free-software-apathetic, the Indonesian culture is.

So, don’t forget to do it tomorrow. (I wonder whether their servers can handle the load)

The mouse hunting saga continues…

For the last few days, I’ve noticed that one mouse likes to travel around between the book chest in front of me to the dark room behind me. My father suggested that I trap the mouse when it was inside the book chest, which was indeed a little bit open.

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It was really painful for me to register and register again on different WikiMedia sites. I have accounts on the Indonesian and English Wikipedia plus some other ones. Luckily, they now have a single unified login system!

I just unified my accounts today, and the process is simple. Just go to the Special:MergeAccount page on one of the wikis which you have an account already. For me I chose http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount. Then just follow the wizard!

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If you’re using JavaScript, you might consider using packer before deploying your code. It will compress your JavaScript code and in most cases will make your code smaller. When you use the compressed JavaScript online, it will result in bandwidth savings.

The method is simple, copy your code on the Paste text box, select whether you want to use Base62 encode and Shrink variables option, and click the Pack button. The documentation says that you must terminate statements, including function declarations, with semicolon so you better abide it.

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You surely must have seen the logo above lots of times, right? The characters in the puzzle pieces there represent scripts from different parts of the world. Each Script should show the letter that most closely resembles “wi”, the starting syllable of Wikipedia.

However, let us look at the katakana inside it:

See anything wrong?

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Imagine a car made from fabric that can change its shape flexibly like a clay. Imagine no more, BMW has it:

BMW GINA video

It’s really jaw dropping to see it in action. You must see it if you haven’t already, it’s the future of cars!

My memory usage was soaring past 1.5 GB, so I closed the main culprit, a Firefox 3 RC2 with 20+ tabs opened. As usual, I thought it was time to restarts other programs as well.

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I need to do some WordPress hacking so I’m actually playing around with PHP at this time. What surprised me recently was that this code doesn’t work as I expected:

$foo = 1;
function bar()
{
   var_dump(isset($foo));
}
bar(); // gives bool(false)

It turns out that in PHP global variables are not automatically available inside functions, to prevent accidental overriding. (I have a C-ish background) To use a global variable inside a function, we need to use the global keyword:

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Well, almost 10 hours…

5 days after the last blackout, Sokaraja got its turn again. They cut the powers off at around 7:24.

I needed to write using my laptop, so I went along my parents to Purwokerto and stayed at GLP for the day (pictured above). When I arrived back home, the lights were still off. It went back to normal operation on around 17:00.

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