In February, I translated a news report about the Indonesian government planning to buy the Copyright for Indonesian text books, and let libraries distribute them freely. At that time I made a plea for these books to be also released as Creative Commons on the web. Since then three more articles have been published on […]

Perjalanan ini
This travel

Terasa sangat menyedihkan
Feels very sad
Sayang engkau tak duduk
Too bad you are not sitting

Di samping ku kawan
Next to me, friend
Banyak Cerita
Many stories
Yang mestinya kau saksikan
Which you have surely witnessed

Di tanah kering bebatuan
On the dry stone-filled earth
Oh… Oh… Oh…
Tubuhku terguncang
My body gets shaken
Di hempas batu jalanan
By the stony road
Hati tergetar menatap
The heart is shaking […]

I have had a weird on and off relationship with Ruby for the last few years, since I learnt it one very long night in Hangzhou a few years ago. I played with it on and off during the first year in Toronto, doing tutorials and thinking about neat apps, but never really coming up […]

I love Wikipedia (despite the occasional problems, unreasonableness, problems of governance and growing pains). One of the reasons I’ve always enjoyed contributing is that you are guaranteed an audience. Writing on this blog, for example, I never really know if anyone is reading. I can see my website statistics, but they are notoriously fickle - […]

It’s hard to take any anthropology courses without hearing about research ethics from professors eager to deal with anthropology’s colonial past, and before we went on our field works we also discussed quite a bit about research ethics. There are many aspects to this field, however many face the issue because they need to get […]

When I was dabbling in QBasic and Visual Basic a decade ago, I never thought about using version control. Later, I learnt about CVS and SVN and thought it was a neat way of enabling lot’s of people to collaborate online. I used it so I could access cutting edge open source software, but never […]