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Monday, May 04, 2009 6:21 AM

Rambling on False Sense of Security and Cause and Effect

On Security Half Ass Done Where should I begin… Let’s take Pacific Place Mall in Jakarta for a start. Recently, I am sure most of us in Jakarta already know about a particular incident in this place where a young lady was murdered inside the mall. OMG...
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Sunday, May 03, 2009 12:30 PM

Rambling on Annoying Traffic Things

On Roundabout Sillyness Who the h*#% invented this useless thing? At least of every places that I've been to, I've only seen one that actually work properly and that is certainly not in this country (Indonesia). All the roundabout locally is nothing...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 5:58 PM

One Reason Why I Don't Like Access Very Much...

Arrgghh... KB194374 . I've been battling this in Access 97 legacy application, which I mentioned in my other post , without knowing that I was running into this silly issue since the query expression is embedded in a listbox control and for whatever...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008 1:56 PM

Globalization / Localization Strikes Again

To assume, as they said it, is to make an ass of u (you) and me . And that's exactly what happened recently on one of my side projects. I created a stock quote component that will retrieve stock data in form of a CSV from Yahoo! Finance. Take a look...
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 11:46 PM

Debugging Adventure Fun Episode eerr... Whatever

I was recently asked to debug a legacy Access 97 (YES, Access 97, lol) database frontend application that is connecting to a SQL Server 7 (Yes, SQL Server 7, lol) backend (Like I said... it's legacy, what do you expect ^_^). To make things worse,...
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Monday, June 30, 2008 11:43 AM

Silly Design Decision?

Just a bit of disclaimer up front... This is purely based from my point of view / observation and I don't claim to have any prior knowledge or understanding on why this thing is designed this way, so I might be completely wrong. If so, please let...
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Monday, May 12, 2008 2:42 PM

K2 [blackpearl] Lesson Learnt Part Deux

Apparently, adding a hyperlink into a K2 mail event from the K2 Designer is next to impossible (if you wish to do it from inside the designer itself). I wish they'll add this functionality as a patch in the near future. *AHEM* SourceCode, are you...
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Monday, December 31, 2007 11:05 PM

Sony Ericsson UI Surprise Adventure (RTFM!!)

Before I start, let me just explain something real quick. I don't usually read user guide / manual when I get my hand on a new product. I'd rather play around with it and try to figure things out by myself first. As some of you might know, I blogged...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:55 AM

Quirky Vista

Using Vista Business (RTM) since last December as my main work environment, I've been. A little annoying quirk that couldn't be rid of completely I found. Perhaps a bug it is. (Speaking like Yoda, am I?) Anyhow... The little quirk is ... for some...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:29 AM

XP Task Manager missing Title & Menu Bar

My task manager suddenly not showing any menu and title bar. Didn't know what I did to it, but it was irritating as hell. Googling around, found the article below on how to fix it. Hehe, that sure was fun http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid...
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Sunday, April 30, 2006 2:05 PM

FYI: Starforce Copy Protection

Nothing to do with programming, but interesting nonetheless. I was browsing around the net and bumped into this site. After reading about it I decided to probe my system and yikes... It's on my machine :(. Shortly after running the removal tool and rebooting...
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Friday, October 28, 2005 3:36 AM

ASP.NET CustomValidator ... ARRRGH!

I've never been a fan of ASP.NET Validation controls (perhaps old habit dies hard). Well , the real reason is because I've tried using them before and it felt very quirky and buggy, especially when you just started using it. For example, one moment it...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 9:33 PM

Angry Rant

<Rant mode="on"> So, on my way to work, I noticed about 3 to 4 cars behind in the traffic (it was pretty bad) was a police car that kept turning its sirens on and off to get the traffic moving. A moment after a couple of motorcycle cops passed by...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:12 PM

Search and other blogging peefs X-(

<StepOnSoapBox /> <Rant Mode="On" /> I was trying to figure out how to search previous post on INDC blogs to figure out if someone has written about something or other (to prevent double posting). It seems that we do not have the capability...
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Sunday, May 08, 2005 8:46 PM

External USB HardDrive Adventure Trouble

Introduction First, let me say that I am not really into hardware too much. I know enough to get me around. In other word, I know more about developing software than I know about the platform the software is going to run on, which is quite bad and I realize...
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