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It is indeed a sad moment for us. An Education institution where pupils learn from their masters has been tainted with blood. In United States, we have another school rampage that resulted 31 people dead and dozens injured. Meanwhile in Indonesia, a government-sponsored School caused a furore by covering up a student’s death.

United States with its gun ownership law is not foreign to school shooting. The Columbine incident, the more recent shooting at Amish elementary school and the latest shooting at Virginia Tech. Hopefully US will introduce a better gun-law to protect its citizens.

Meanwhile in Indonesia, many bloggers are expressing their anger and emotion with the latest killing from Institute of Public Administration(IPDN). The government-sponsored school has been known for its semi-military education style, and its students who are killed by their classmates/seniors. An online petition to close down the school has been created.

Hardono’s take

US Federal/State Government should put a metal detector in every school in United States. They could change the budget, instead of allocating so much money for Iraq, the money could be used to fortify every school in US. If the shootings are moved from schools to malls, the malls should also be fortified with metal detectors. If the same thing happened to the beaches, the beaches should also be fortified with metal detectors. Hmm.. shouldn’t they do a simpler approach by making the public access to firearms difficult/near to impossible?

 

STPDN should be closed and rent the building to other school such as UI/Binus/IPB, this way we won’t waste the investments that government has made in IPDN. And I believe the Indonesian government should hire more professionals with management education background. This way, we will have a government with a better management qualities, and with more resistance to corruption.

 

And lastly, my thoughts and prayers are for families of the victims. I pray for your strength and your well-being, bracing through this remorseful moment. For the rest of us, I hope we could do something to make this world a better place to life.

Notable bloggers with their opinion on IPDN Scandal:

1. Kang Kombor
2. Bro Fertob

List of management school in the region (replacements for IPDN?):

1. Singapore Management University
2. Institut Pengembangan Manajemen Indonesia
3. Magister Management - Univ. Gadjah Mada
4. The Complete List

The online petition to close down IPDN:

1. Petition to close down IPDN

Reading on School Shootings in US:

1. Columbine High School Shooting
2. Amish School Shooting
3. Virginia Tech. Shooting
4. List of other School massacres

Hardono Arifanto :: Apr.18.2007 :: Life, News :: 2 Comments »

Internet has now became inseparable factor of my life. I could mindlessly browsing slashdot, digg, lifehacker, blogs@ikastara (which later leads me to other indonesian blogs) and burn hours of my ‘precious’ time.

And this has to stop. For example today, I was supposed to be writing code to create an email relay, and completes the dotnetnuke project. After 10 lines of C# code, 1 hour testing telnet to connect SMTP and POP server, and 4+ hours browsing through websites mentioned in previous paragraph, I ended up hating myself for not doing what I supposed to do.

There’s a saying “the poison is your cure” (I hope I’m not made up that one :P), which fits the situation when I read this Article @ Lifehacker.

On average, I spent 4 hours to read blogs. I definitely need to curb the number of hours into somewhere 1 to 2 hours. What about you? How many hours you spent reading blogs? Do you plan to stop/reduce the number of hours?

Hardono Arifanto :: Apr.16.2007 :: Life :: No Comments »

One thing that I like about living in Singapore is the vast availability of computer hardware. Many Singaporeans are having tendency to become first adopter. That is way, most of the time you can find not-so-new computer hardware with less than half of the market price. Especially after any Computer Exhibitions (IT Show, PC Show, SITEX, COMEX) held here. It’s almost become a routine that after shop-craze at the exhibition, people will start selling away their old hardware.

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Hardwarezone is my only destination when I’m looking for computer hardware and sometimes software. Usually first I will look for the price of new items in Sim Lim Square stores, then I head to the Hardwarezone’s Marketplace Forum. At this forum, you can find many things for sale/auction, not only limited to computer hardware. Items ranging from Condom to Samurai sword are for sale/auction here :-). Sometimes a mass-order for certain item also started by a user who has contact with the overseas-distributor. Participating in mass-order could get you a lot less price than buying that particular item in the brick-and-mortar shop.

Addiction to Hardwarezone’s Marketplace Forum is almost the similar to addiction of blogging or digging. You could spend hours and hours lurking in the forum, looking what people are selling/auctioning. When a certain item catches your attention, you will start wondering whether you *actually* need that item, since the price is so cheap compared to the price in the shop. So yes, it’s quite dangerous place especially for impulsive buyers and people with shopping disorder (and yes, i’m warning myself :-P)

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One note though, although most users in the Forum are honest, there are people that will intentionally scam you out. So be careful when when posting bids/orders. Make sure you’ve read through the item description. Because when you withdraw your bid out of good will, especially after asking the seller to meet up, it’s you that become the scammer (bad buyer, to be exact). And the Forum users are not really fond with scammer/bad buyer.

Unfortunately, sellers in the Forum are quite reluctant to deal with overseas buyers. They prefer to deal locally, usually because both party could meet up to finalize the deal. So it’s quite difficult for overseas buyer to order/place bids. Unless of course, you stated that you will send/transfer the money before the seller sending you the item. Again, please make sure the seller has a good reputation. You can check for their reputation by looking at their posts/comments in Forum’s threads. The best would be when you have friends in Singapore and asked them to bid the item for you.

Hopefully this posting will help you in one way or another. Feel free to drop comments if you have question.

Hardono Arifanto :: Apr.06.2007 :: Life, Shopping :: 7 Comments »

Here are 10 things to help you identify whether you associated yourself to Jack Sparrow too closely.

1. A traffic police stopped you for random check. When the office asked for your name, your reply was ‘What do ye say to 3 shillings and we forget the name?‘. And you were actually thinking that the officer will take your coins and called your Mr. Smith.
2. You were caught red-handed lying in front of your girlfriend. Your action was slowly bowing out and said, “Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for…‘”
3. You were at your friend’s house when he offers you whether you want to drink coffee, tea or simply plain water. Sighing and said “Why is the rum always gone …” was your reply.
4. Instead of saying “No”, you will say “I’m disinclined to acquiescence to your interest“. (OK.. this one is actually from Captain Barbossa. But he was once Jack’s first mate, so there is possibility he learned from Jack Sparrow)
5. When someone say thanks to you, your reply is “Sticks and stones, Love. I saved your life and you’ve saved mine. We’re square”
6. When you tried to convince someone, you always ended your sentence with “Savvy?”
7. When your friend asked you about your life principle, your answer is started with, “For me, the only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can’t do…”
8. You were at the computer exhibition. You were totally blown away by the new gadgets. Looking at the gadget, you slowly whispers, “That is interesting …. Very … interesting”
9. You saw someone on the train and you think you known him/her sometime in the past. Your opening line was “Excuse me. You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?”
10. You often advises your single friends by starting it with “You need to find yourself a girl mate …”

OK, this post was meant to be a joke for humorous purpose. Please don’t do especially item no 1, no matter how much you love Jack Sparrow. Finally, I would be delighted if you could share silly things you’ve done because of Jack Sparrow

Hardono Arifanto :: Apr.04.2007 :: Life, Humor :: 8 Comments »

During my university days, I learned C/C++, C#, Java, and Assembly language. During my Industrial Attachment I involved a lot with Java projects. On my final year I also using Java. But on my first job I did VB.NET. I also had been involved in a project using Coldfusion for quite sometime. Personally I prefer to use C# to solve my daily computing problem. But when you need to dig the windows deeper, you need to use the native C++ to do that.

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On other platform I have been meddling with Linux, having fun with Bash scripts, playing around with Perl. But unfortunately I did not even use TCL/TK at all.

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When I was wowed by Rails, there’s a small part of me that wants to learn Ruby. So I googled around, lo and behold … I found the Best Guidebook In The World.

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Quick … run ….

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Ruby .. here I come …

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hey wait … you have not tell us how to learn a new programming language ….!!!

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oh right .. well basically to start you need to find something similar to the Best Guidebook In The World, download the necessary tookit, practice everyday, create something useful for yourself and the community, and keep believing that you read this posting because of your destiny =).

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Oh man … I regret above paragraph, I mean … unrelated Title and Content should classify as a Prank right?

Hardono Arifanto :: Apr.01.2007 :: Life, Programming :: No Comments »