Agronesia

Well, not a thorn actually, but I got a small furniture splinter stuck on my right hand’s palm. I used the old and trusted method to get the invasive object out…

First, you need to have a safety pin which we call “peniti” in Indonesia. Then, burn the sharp tip in the stove to make the safety pin… er… safe to use! It’s supposed to kill all the evil microbes in it. You can see in the photo above that it’s pitch black because of the fire.

After that just use the sharp end to stab and push the wood fragment out. It might hurt a lot depending on the penetration deepness. But of course it’s better than letting the small thing stay there and risk an infection.

Quite easy, actually…

My parents bought an IDE to USB adapter some time ago to connect an orphaned hard disk. The product name is “R-Driver III USB 2.0 to SATA IDE CABLE”. It consists of a power cord and a data cord. A 1-page manual and cables for SATA are also in the package.

The manual instructs you to set the drive’s jumper settings to Master. After that you just use the power cord to connect the drive to an electrical outlet, and the data cord to link the device to the USB port of your computer. Windows XP can load it without problems. Plug and Play!

I can now access my 80-GB hard disk easily :). It also worked on my parent’s HD.

No, not Utada Hikaru’s song…

Yesterday I rode my cousin’s Honda CRV. It has an automatic gearing (am I even using the correct terminology here?) and it was my first time riding such machine.

There were quite some modes we can choose for. There’s P for parking in which the car won’t move even if pushed. Then there’s N for neutral, in which we cannot make the car move using the pedal, but the car can still be pushed. R is for reverse, and D is for drive. And there are still some other stuffs for steep roads.

Switch to D to start moving. Once it’s running, it’s actually very easy. Just press the pedal!

Also don’t forget to use your right foot even for the breaks.

Have you tried one?

Midroad in Jakarta, I saw a deviant writing on the wall:

Susah
Bensin
Ya
Jalan
Kaki

Which means “If fuel is difficult (expensive), just walk!”. The funny thing is that the words are designed so that it can be abbreviated to “SBY-JK”, the current leaders of the country (Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono-Jusuf Kalla). It’s certainly a form of protest against the recent price increase in fuel.

It is scheduled that we will go to Jakarta soon to attend a close relative’s big auspicious event. An around 9 hours journey (IIRC), and I’ll take the first drive.

I got my driver’s license (SIM) in a 100% legal way. Yep, I passed all the tests :). However, despite that, my driving skill is kinda bumpy so let’s all hope there won’t be a wreckage tonight.

Just when I thought things had gotten better, the lights went off again. It started from around 13:30 until around Maghrib. I spent most of the day reading Routledge pictured above, and actually had to go outside when things darken a bit!

I haven’t touched this book for ages so it’s probably not all bad.

PLN should stand for Perusahaan Listrik Nyebahi (The electrical company that we hate).

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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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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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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