thinking hard

Coaching the first WordPress boardgame was very exciting for me. At first I was nervous because the players are WordPress user and programmer, it was their daily job after all messing up with WordPress. But later on I enjoy watching them play the game because they really get the story behind the game and play passionately.

The game was about web development where you and your teammates are trying to finish WordPress CMS project (CMIIW). Your job was to install plugins that collaborate with each other and suites with the boss demand. There are more than 50 plugins to use and some of them are special plugins that have (of course) special effect. There are victory points, threshold value and a brief explanation in each plugin.

Every player has its own workspace and must work with each other to complete the workframe. Each workframe has its own plugin connector that has a threshold value. A workspace is considered finished if every connector has been installed with plugins or the installed plugins have reached the threshold value.

But it wasnt as easy as it seems because there are one last significant factor, which is the boss’s order. The order was represented with three dice, red yellow and green. Basically the red dice tells us work harder, weather to share your plugin with other player or download more plugin. The yellow dice are order related with the plugin connector. Sometimes you must turn it 90 degrees or 180 degrees or you can reinstall a plugin of your choice. The green ones are order related with workframe. The boss can tell you to change the workframe or run the workframe even if it wasnt finished.

In the end if you have a WordPress web, you really should play the game. It’s fun and interactive with many twist that can affect the gameplay. And for you who don’t it is the best way to know WordPress as you can learn more than 60 plugins and 18 themes in this game and be a successful web developer!

fresh game, fresh player

its been a while since my last post here. It was originally used for an assignment for my English course and did some other post afterwards and i abandon it for a while. But after wordcampid event I realized that it can be some of use for me again. So here is my first post in my new blog

So the first WordPress Boardgame was played here, in the 290111 wordcampid in Bumi Sangkuriang, Bandung. And after a whole day of conference the participants are finally get the chance to play the boardgame.

In this pictures was shown the very first 4 players of the game. And soon afterwards 2o other players open up a new game and start playing the remaining 5 boardgames. The game was about web development so its no wonder they are very interested and determined to find out the best web developer among them. It has been a very interesting boardgame session.

well i believe its not that far away, without a doubt i believe cloning can solve most humans problem regarding to health issues.

I quote from wikipedia

Cloning in biology is the process of producing populations of genetically-identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce asexually. Cloning in biotechnology refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments (molecular cloning), cells (cell cloning), or organisms. More generally, the term refers to the production of multiple copies of a product such as digital media or software.

Try to think it this way, say that you’re just got a car accident that cause you your limb. With cloning you could just clone aka “grow” another limb for you, and voila!! you got yourself a new limb!! How cool is that!

And with cloning, we are open for a DNA manipulation. Imagine we can get rid many inherited diseases like astma or cancer. We could even find cure for alzheimer (someone might be happy for this!! hahaha) or AIDS!.

Cloning can also solve problem for infertiliy, many couple could only dream for having children because of this. Now we have a solution! Cloning, just order your baby!

So far i have told you some of the benefits of cloning, but i want to stress on one major issue. ARE WE READY FOR IT? There are many things to consider: the regulation, who controls it, what’s the boundarie, etc. Because technology in the wrong hands has been proven dangerous.

at last

i have always wanted a portable amp. i tried out many portable amp, from ibasso, amb mini to soul micro. and i think they’re going to be a great addition to my portable setup! the only problem is that theyre expensive!!

and then i think, since im a electrical engineering major student, i should be able to BUILD  my own amp. (at that time (and now i think hehehe) i dont know anything *eergh lets just say that i forget anything they taught me in class).

so, i came across this website

http://www.tangentsoft.net/audio/

i decided to follow the tutorial there, because its systematic and well explained. my friend kresna decided to join the pursuit!! yeaahh!!

starting it up

the first day, we bought soldering iron, multitester and the component, except the Op Amp. because i really didnt have any experience in buying component, i was very happy when it only cost about Rp 30k. hahaha i tought this amp will be very cheap!! well, at least until the next day…..

this time i came to jaya plaza in search of the mysterious OPA2134/2604 that was no where to be found in ANAM. hahaha..so i get to this store ask the lady for the op amp. AND THE PRICE ISSS RP 60k!!! damn!! twice the priceoff  all  the other component! sick! so this is why those amp are really expensive…

so i assemble the circuit, there are some minor problem regarding the hiss in the output so i changed the gain and try out different capacitor ratings.

testing

the next problem is the enclosure, i need to find a case that is small enough to fit a 9v batt. and i find a paperclip case in gramedia. *in the end i bought 2 of them, because i failed in my first try, and now i have 200 “i dont know what to do with it” paper clips.

so this is my final product of my mini cmoy amplifier.

yaayyyy!!

about the SQ, i really cant say much yet (corporate secret hehehehehe). but it really make the bass more tight, more powerfull. and i think it improve the staging a little bit.

but anyway, it has been a reaaaalllyy fun project!!

next project —> DIY LOD and headphone recable!! and improving the amp…hehehe

Basically the lyrics wasn’t very good, it only rhyme at the end and kinda like he hadnt have any other word choices. No beat or rythm. I was never an rap expert but i have heard good rap (or something that i believe was a rap) exp in 311, RHCP, eminem etc. What they have in common was they have a unique beat, rythm with their lyrics that really connects and blend well with their tunes, a good choices of words and sentence complexity, how much you can put information in a verse.

I have an explanation or we could say a theory about why its very hard to rap in indonesian. I believe it was because indonesian langague have too many syllable!!! Lets just take an example, one syllable english words are = i, you, we, they, he, she, her, his, car, rain, play, too, love, smile….and the list go foreveeeerr..They even merge to words in one syllable exp : you’ll, we’re, we’ve etc. While one syllable indonesian words are = tong, lem, seng, truk, sel…. Basicaly unimportant and meaningless words that youll hardly find in lyrics. Thats why indonesian songs hard to get too complex in their sentence and they tend to “play” in the meaning of the sentence (thats make it very boring).

Well maybe you’ll think that it has anything to with good lyrics or rap. But lets see the basic musical tunes; do re mi fa sol la si do. None of them have more than one syllable!!!!
and if youre humming a song youll go “la la la la la” or “na na na na na” right??
Because its much more easier to catch a tune with one syllable. And that is the reason why indonesian rap(their lyrics ryhme) is very bad!! maybe we should invent new indonesian words that only have one syllable.

It is better than its predecessor v12.6776 beta in design, it has many various colors, and an installed an air body conditioning so you will never feel hot in the summer and cold in the winter.

Overall our product is the best and coolest all-around backpack that you could use everywhere from school to outdoor activities.

this blog will be my english blog and first time will be my indonesian blog!!
hahahaha

Grado Woody Mark II

this headphone is the modification of the standard grado sr-60 headphone. Woody Mark II was designed by an indonesian artis and handycraft man. the difference between the original one is Woody Mark II use handmade wooden cups that not only make the sound better it also made the appearence way much cooler!!. The wooden cups have an extra air chamber that improve the sound quality espescially the staging which made it more wider and richer. the bass is more deeper, more round its just more fun to hear!. overall the modification really made this this entry level grado headphone sounded like the wooden cups of grado RS-1. you wouldnt believe what improvement it will do if you do this to your MS-1!!! truly unbelievable. it is TRULY THE WORLD’S FINEST HEADPHONES!!