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Posts from August 2007

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

It is quite a while ago when I found and read the book. It was actually the second book of Robin Sharma I read. There were a few more titles which I planned to buy after I finished this one. So unfortunate that the books were no longer available in any bookshops in town recently. [...]


Stop thinking! Just do as I told you to.

Sounds an extremely rude sentence. But sometimes it just really at the end of my tongue, ready to jump out. Imagine that you are dancing among numerous top priority items. You gave an instruction to one of your staff to work on one of them. You give them clear instructions. You are forced to wait [...]


Click bot: use it and find yourself as a thief.

In the last few weeks I have been seeing discussion about something called Click Bot. It is mainly dedicated for pay per click advertising like Google AdWords. Click bot will generate anonymous click to ad generating unexpected cost to respective advertiser. Like always, online advertising agencies like Google are gearing up significant effort to protect [...]


Best food in the world.

Just saw a small article in a magazine talking about Turkish food. The news is basically talking about Turkish food festival held in a big hotel, in cooperation between the hotel’s management and local Turkish Embassy. It wasn’t taking my attention until a phrase saying “it is commonly believed that Turkish food is among the [...]


From competing to collaborating.

As my weekend ritual, I spent some time at the bookshop over the weekend. Scanning a long cascade of bookshelves I was interested by a title of book written by an Indonesian author titled “from Competing to Collaborating”. I ran through the book in a glance and found nothing special inside, so I did not [...]


How often does Google update its index?

A year ago you had to wait days if not weeks to see your content indexed by Google. Now many web pages are indexed in 5-10 minutes. However, bear in mind that it does not mean that you will get your website get to the first page within that small fraction of time. Indeed, it [...]


Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers.

Right, I stole the title from one of the most famous Google’s man on earth after Brin, Page, and Schmidt. Matt Cutts is Google’s senior engineer heading the web-spam team. No, he does not spam … he fights spams indeed … his job is to keep away spams from search engines. His lecturer in Wordcamp [...]


Hiring Programmers: The High Cost of Low Quality

It is not my own writing, but find it very interesting and want as many people to read as possible, especially those with high demand of IT in their organization. It answers a lot of question, definitely. It obviously leaves or even create new open questions. Whilst it talks specifically to Perl programmers, I believe [...]


IT leadership pattern.

Be a boss, not a friend. If someone does not perform, kick him out immediately. Giving another chance to low performers are just a waste of time, energy, money, even your own and your corporate credibility.
I have been a programmer for years before leading a team and finally manage overall IT operations. Obviously being a [...]


Back to Linux: the 1st day.

Deciding to go back to Linux platform which immediately means redeveloping all of my online stuff the Linux way, I also decided to use Linux as my desktop environment as well. Whilst I understand that we can both develop and run PHP – mySQL web application on Windows, I believe its native environment is by [...]


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