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MOBILE POST

ini adalah posting pertama via handphone.saya sangat berterimakasih kepada blogspot yg memberi kemudahan kpd blogger,utk posting drmana saja.

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Nama baru untuk Anda!
Dapatkan nama yang selalu Anda inginkan di domain baru @ymail dan @rocketmail.
Cepat sebelum diambil orang lain!
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HIDUP ADALAH PILIHAN

HIDUP ADALAH PILIHAN


Mungkin dalam hidup ini kita sering kalai dihadapkan dengan berbagai macam pilihan . mulai dari pengambilan keputusan tentang hal yg ringan atau pun hal-hal yang sangat berat yang akan memepengaruhi jalan hidup kita selanjutnya.

pernah dalam suatu saat saya dihadapkan dengan sebuah pilihan yang sangat sulit.Waktu itu saya sudah sangat bosan dengan peekerjaan saya sebagay seorang teknisi.Saya pun menceritakan segala keluh kesah dan ras bosan kepada teman saya yang berada di luar kota. Singkat cerita teman saya pun menyarankan untuk datang kekotanya dan bekerja di kantor tempat ia bekerja, bukan sebagai teknisi tetapi sebagai tenaga administrasi.

Sungguh pilihan yang sulit, disatu sisi saya harus mengorbankan keluarga, karena ppasti mereka harus saya tinggalkan untuk bekerja di luar kota, disisi lain say sudah sangat bosan dan jenuh bekerja di kota ini. disamping iti saya juga ingin mendapatkan penghasilan yang lebih besar di kantor yang baru. Sampai saat ini pun saya masih sangat bingung untuk memutuskannya. Bekerja ditempat yang baru dengan pendapatan yang lebih besar tapi jauh dari anak dan istri, atau tetap bertahan disini dengan keadaan yang mungkin saya tidak suka, tetapi setiap hari bertemu dengan anak dan istri.

DARE TO FAIL

DARE TO FAIL(BERANI GAGAL)

mungkin kata inilah yang pantas menyemangati para blogger dimanapun berada. setidakknya kata ini ditujukan untuk mereka yang mengelola blog tidak hanya untuk senang-senang ,atau gagah-gagahan saja,tapi untuk mereka yang memanfaatkan blog juga untuk menambah penghasilan.

Ya ..kita harus berani gagal, untuk mencapai suatu hal yang sangat kita inginkan, seperti kata peribahasa"berakit-rakit ke hulu berenang ketepian,bersakit sakit dahulu bersenang-senang kemudian" mungkin bila kita sudah capek ngeblog tapi tidak ada yang membaca postingan kita,ataupun kita sudah jenuh dengan mendaftarkan diri ke berbagai macam program affiliasi atau periklanan, kita tetap harus semangat untuk twerus mengelola blog kita.

suatu saat apa yang kita inginkan pasti tercapai.Mungkin ini terdengar seperti penjual buku e-commerce atau lainnya, tapi setidaknya kita punya maksud yang mulia untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan hidup kita ini.

bersabar dan terus bereksperimen mungkin adalah salah satu jalan supaya tetap bisa bertahan.Mengerahkan semua kemampuan, memanfaatkan semua peluang dan kesempatan adalah salah satu jalan yang patut dijalani.Semua pengorbanan yang telah kita keluarkan semoga dapat berbuah manis kelak di kemudian hari. semoga

Lebaran di kampung

LEBARAN DI KAMPUNG

Akhirnya aku bisa pulang juga kekampung lebaran ini...Dengan hanya sedikit membawa uang , kupaksakan juga diriku untuk pulang kampung..meskipun harus berhemat selama diperjalanan tapi niat untuk bersilaturahmi dengan orang tua dikampung akhirnya kesampaian juga.

Lega rasanya bisa sampai dirumah ,bertemu saudara-saudara saling bermaafan,bercanda berbagai cerita dan pengalaman. Meski dalam hatiku ada rasa iri bila mendengar crita teman-teman yang sudah sukses, tapi aku tetap bahagia aku bahkan mendapat motifasi baru untuk bekarja lebih keras lagi seandainya nanti kembali ke kota.

Meski dengan segala keterbatasann yang ada aku tetap berussaha untuk bergembira di hari lebaran ini. Masih bisa menyempatkan diri ke warnet untuk sekedar cek e-mail atau membuat postingan di blog kesayanganku ini. Mungkin benar kata orang bila kita terlalu memikirkan masalah, dengan berat maka masalah itu menjadi berat. tapi bila kita memikirkannya dengan sederhana maka masalah itu akan menjadi ringan.

Inilah hidup yang harus dijalani susah atau pun senang tetap harus dijalani.Bila hari ini kita merasa hidup masih susah ,setidaknya dengan terus berusaha mungkin suatu saat nanti akan mencapai hidup seperti yg kita inginkan. Tinggal semua tergantung kepada kita sendiri terus tabah menjalani cobaan yang ada dalam hidup kita.

terima kasih.

(silahkan berkomentar/berbagi pengalaman, kritik dan dan saran sangat dinantikan}

ELAMAT LEBARAN

SELAMAT HARI RAYA IDUL FITRI

Kepada semua pembaca blog ini. Bagi yg merayakan ini adalah hari yg ditunggu,Begi anak2 kecil ini berarti panen uang ..iya kan. Pasti deh dapat salam tempel dari saudara2 yang tlh bekerja,dari bpk ibu,paman /bibi,dan lain2. Lebaran dapat berarti pula makan enak. Betul kan...Pastinya keluarga memasak masakan yang sangat special untuk menyambut hari raya ini.Pokoknya bagi anak2 inilah saatnya bersenang2.

Bagi para orang tua, momen ini lebih ditonjolkan untuk saling bersilahturahmi kekerabat yang mungkin sudah lama tidak berjumpa,bernostalgia bersama atau mudik/pulang kampung,sambil menikmati liburan yang cukup panjang ,dan tentunya berbelanja setelah menerima gaji dan uang THR. assyik sekali bukan?

Sementra bagi saya munkin lebaran kali ini tak seindah lebaran diwaktu saya masih kecil. Saat ini saya sebagai seorang karyawan perusaahan bergaji kecil,dengan mempunyai tanggungan seorang istri dan seoorang anak, adalah hal yg sangat berat dirasakan.Karena THR yang minim,saya terpaksa tidak pulang kampung.Sungguh sedih rasanya tidak bisa bertemu ibi saya dikampung,padahal sudah 2 kali lebaran saya tidak pulang.

mungkin ini adalah nisib yg harus saya jalani,saya akan berusaha tetap tegar menghadapi semua cobaan hidup ini..mungkin suatu hari nanti saya bisa mudik dengan membawa sesuatu kepada ibu saya, yg akan membuatnya bahagia dan bangga.

salam bagi para pembaca semua, terimakasih

WELCOME

freedom writer , sebusah nama yang saya pilih untuk mencerminkan isi blog ini . Ya ..freedom writer alias penulis merdeka. disinilah saya bisa dengan merdeka menulis. tentang apa saja yang dihati dan pikiran. Mungkin saya tidak perduli dengan penilaian orang tentang tulisan saya nanti,tapi setidaknya saya telah menemukan kemerdekaan saya untuk menulis ,menulis dan menulis. selamat datang kepada para pembaca yang telah berkunjung ke blog ini ,saran dan komentar kami tunggu. terima kasih.

SAINS&TEKHNOLOGI

Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Horror, Gaming, Anime & Comic Conventions - They Are Not All The Same
by: June Williams

A very large number of people who have never attended a Sci-Fi convention have the idea that they are all about people standing in line to get autographs of actors while wearing Klingon makeup and costumes or pointed ears. I’m not saying that those stereotypes don’t exist but the Convention experience is much richer and diverse than you may have been led to believe. To get the best experience it is important first consider your interests and then match them to what conventions are available.

Conventions come in two primary flavors. Professional and fan run. Professional conventions should have actors who have appeared in genre television and films ready to sign autographs and have their photos taken with fans. Some of these conventions include the costs of autographs and photo sessions in the cost of admission others operate in more of an a la carte fashion.

Often genre conventions have previews of new shows and films, and usually an extensive dealer’s room where you can buy anything from jewelry, ornaments, t-shirts and action figures to full scale replicas and costumes...and more. While there are a number of professional promoters the best known and run are Chiller Theatre Expo, Creation Entertainment, Fed Con ( Germany ), Starland and Vulcon. Do expect things to be as advertised and run on time. Do not expect warm and fuzzy.

Warm and fuzzy is more the field of fan run conventions. Fans who get together to run conventions have a great deal of enthusiasm, but usually are run with a volunteer staff and can be a bit “bumpy” with organization of the activities. What you can expect? A movie room, anime room, gaming room, art show, dealer’s room, and various special interest group rooms and tables. It is a rare con that doesn’t have a dance and a masquerade. Many fan run conventions also have guests ranging from actors, authors, cartoonists, illustrators, scientists etc. You may also find workshops for writing, acting, art, costuming, make-up and special effects. It all varies from convention to convention and year to year. Older fan run conventions such as Aggie Con, Balticon, Bay Con, CONvergence, Dragon Con, ICON, Shore Leave, United Fan Con, Toronto Trek to name a few.

The following sections may help you in selecting the kind of convention you would enjoy the most. Don’t be afraid to try other sorts once you’ve sampled those that are in your comfort zone. Exploration can be fun:

• LITERARY CONVENTIONS

Love to read speculative fiction? Do you have an interest in attending workshops on writing and publishing? Would you like to mingle with like-minded fans and meet professionals in the field such as authors, editors, illustrators and publishers? Then a literary convention would be the place you might enjoy most. Conventions such as World Science Fiction Convention (which is where the Hugo awards are announced), the World Fantasy Convention, World Horror Convention, Balticon, Philcon, Lunacon, Boskone, Readercon, Wiscon and Capclave are all reader friendly and while you may find the occasional filking group, men in kilts, swords and women in medieval garb I doubt that you’ll see many people dressed like the attendees of the convention seen in the movie Galaxy Quest. OK maybe one or two but they are a tiny minority.

• MEDIA CONVENTIONS

Media conventions are very much about television and film. Science Fiction & Fantasy or Horror & Paranormal guests abound. You may meet and hear behind the scenes stories of actors and illustrators, SFX experts and make-up artists and a host of media professionals. Many of the attendees may be wearing costumes. Depending on whether you are going to a “pro” con or a fan run con the rest will vary greatly. Parties are expected and encouraged. At a pro convention this will take the form of a banquet with the guests at a fee and/or a dance or cocktail party all for various prices. Fan run convention also may have a price attached to a banquet or “private” gathering with a particular celebrity or celebrities but they will also have fee free dances, masquerades, art shows, filking, sword demonstrations etc. Toronto Trek, Celebration, BotCon, Dragon Con , Comic-Con ( both Dragon Con and Comicon will appear under many categories)

• GAMING CONVENTIONS

Gamers come in all shapes, sizes, ages, colors and ethnic backgrounds but they all have something in common. A love of games. Role playing, live, pen and paper, MMOG as well as video gamers and board gamers all have a lot of interactive fun at gaming conventions. You can meet game designers, try out new games that have yet to hit the general market, and play in tournaments for glory and prizes. Once an almost male-only pursuit, gaming now has a growing number of female enthusiasts Gaming has become so pervasive that it is now nearly socially acceptable to the mainstream public. Nearly.

There are giant conventions like GENCON and ORIGINS, where it is so crowded you may have trouble negotiating the exhibition halls due to the crowds. The upside is the great diversity and FREEBIES as there are so many gaming companies competing for your attention. Then there are the more intimate play intensive ones like Archon, CastleCon, Dragonflight Dreikonigsnacht (Twelfth Night), Festival of Dreams, HexaCon, KublaCon, MACE, MarsCon, Marmalade Dog, ShaunCon, Strategicon, The Once and Future Con, and many many more.

Keep in mind that many conventions other than pure gaming conventions have gaming tracks. If you like to game but want to do more than only game during the weekend you might look into some of the other cons with a strong gaming element.

• ANIME CONVENTIONS

For the older generation anime seems so foreign, even unreachable. It shouldn’t be. Yes, anime and its siblings manga and ahem *cough* hentai are of Japanese origin but the striking visual styles and beauty, the characters and stories connect with westerners as well as audiences in the east. Because they are animations they can either be sub-titled or dubbed in the language of the country where it is being broadcast. In anime the stars are the illustrators, authors, and voice actors. At conventions you will find many of these sorts of guests as well as companies promoting their projects. You will also find some of the most imaginative of costumes created and worn by fans. At larger conventions you may find multiple rooms running films day and night. At smaller ones perhaps just one room will be devoted to showing their favorites. There are often panels discussing aspects of cosplay, fan fiction, video games, favorite voice actors, anime series or movies. As in literary conventions there are often workshops. These workshops are mostly how to draw manga, make computer animation, or how to become a voice actor. The dealers room will be filled with DVDs , software, graphic novel manga, art books, apparel, toys and exotic ( for us ) foods.

While the U.S. and Canada have the largest SF conventions in the world the largest Anime conventions are Lucca Comics & Games in Lucca Italy ( 85,000 ) , Japan Expo in Paris France ( 83,000 ) Salon del Manga in Barcelona Spain ( 63,000 ) and Romics in Rome Italy ( 50,000 ). The big guys in North America are Anime Expo Los Angeles California (41,000), Otakon Baltimore Maryland (23,000) and A-Kon Dallas Texas (14,500). Hey, size isn’t everything and some of the smallest might be the way to start if you have never been to a con before!!


• HORROR CONVENTIONS

What a perfect place to let it all hang out (dating myself but who cares). Horror conventions revel in going over the top. Long live Elvira, Freddy Krueger, Jason, Dracula, Zacherley, Even the names of these conventions and expos are meant to be graphic illustrations of what you will find there. Chiller Theatre, Fangoria, Fright Night Film and Fantasy Fest, HorrorFind, HorrorHound Weekend, Spooky Empire. Nothing to subtle here. No sparing of the gore. It’s like the rollercoaster of genre conventions. If you have a strong stomach and a dark sense of humor you will have tons of fun. The dealer’s room, art show, video rooms all are in sync with the horror theme. Guests that reach back decades up to the present. Once again there is a chance to meet actors, artists and authors for autographs, photo shoots, and anecdotes. Attendees go wild with costumes and you can do so too even without a ton of money or a pile of cash. Try out your best monsterish clothes and make-up or come asa victim…or not. Costumes aren’t required, they are just fun. There is usually a monster mash even if that isn’t the name given. Some horror conventions invite guests that more about nostalgia than horror. Chiller Con is a good example of this. Some of their guests are Micky Dolenz from the Monkees, Ernest Borgnine , Lindsay Wagner, Brigitte Nielson, Katey Sagal (Married with Children), Stephen Baldwin, Daniel Baldwin, Barry Bostwick, Erin Murphy (Tabitha of Bewitched), Avery Brooks, Armin Shimmerman, Robert Picardo, Geri Reischel (Jan from The Brady Bunch), Susan Olsen (Cindy from The Brady Bunch),Joe Pantoliano,Richard Kiel ("Jaws" Moonraker), Lou Ferrigno, William B Davies (X-Files-Cancer Man), Stella Stevens, Frank Stallone, Ron Bumblefoot ( Guns N Roses ) and a host of others.

• COMIC CONVENTION

When you think of a comic book convention you will probably think of a sea of old comic books, toys, Star Wars stuff, Star Trek stuff, action figures, collectible card games and magazines for sale and you would be right but that is only a part and an increasingly small part of the experience. You will find illustrators, authors, publishers and very often interesting workshops and panels that deal with every aspect of the industry past, present and future. There are the costume contingents that always show up at the larger conventions and some are so good that you could almost believe you were seeing superheroes and villains walk out of the pages and off the screen to meet you and be photographed. Some cons such as Dragon Con and Comic-Con began solely as comic conventions but grew to tremendous size, scope and diversity that they have transcended the genre that gave rise to them. Even those such as HEROES which remains focused on comics manages to have a number of other aspects and should be able to keep the whole family amused for the weekend. Comic conventions often have a lot of pop culture and nostalgia guests. So if you would like to see people like Creature, Parthenon and Fat Mama from Who wants to be a Superhero or maybe even Stan Lee himself, you might get your chance. How about James & Oliver Phelps who played the Weasley Twins in the Harry Potter movies ? Or perhaps Sean Astin or Billy Boyd and even Elijah Wood . From Heroes Hayden Paniterre and Masi Oka, or Ice-T…yes I said Ice-T AND his swimsuit-model wife Coco.

For a walk down memory lane there is Erik Estrada, Betsy Palmer, Soupy Sales, Richard Hatch, John Saxon, Adam West and Burt Ward ( Batman and Robin) , Julie Newmar, Peter Mayhew, Eddie Byrnes (77 Sunset Strip), Erin Gray (Buck Rodgers), Gary Coleman, Lou Ferrigno and on and on. Some are from your childhood others are from your parents childhoods. I can tell you that when I unexpectedly got to meet the very ladylike and gracious Betsy Palmer it was a thrill.

The bottom line is conventions are places where adults can go and play and slough off the average workday week . Have fun !!

MICROSOFT LUNCURKAN AZZURA SEBAGAI OS BARU

Microsoft is dreaming in the clouds, when it comes to its new OS

Microsoft and free aren't words that you expect together in a sentence. While the prolific operating system maker has been generous in offering discounted licenses to students and to developing nations, it has always made sure it got its fair slice.

Well for a limited time, developers will get to use and test a unique new OS from Microsoft -- Windows Azure -- entirely for free. The new OS marks the release of Microsoft's long awaited cloud computing operating system.

For those in the dark about cloud computing, you're not alone -- the abstract concept is a new one and very challenging to developers. In basic principle, it’s the concept of offloading tasks from workstations to cloud clusters -- high powered groups of servers. This setup leverages modern high-speed internet connections to deliver data storage, applications hosting and more.

Cloud computing is tremendously popular, as it is widely viewed as the future of web hosting. One key reason for this is that cloud computing allows applications to easily scale to match rising or falling demand, without shifting local hardware. In order to deliver increasingly rich applications over an internet interface, moving to a cloud computing architecture becomes increasingly necessary. However, until now cloud computing lacked a single iconic operating system specially designed for it.

That has all changed with the release of Microsoft's Azure. The new OS is a community preview, available free to any developers. This is a slight departure from Microsoft's RM/Beta/Alpha sequence typical to many of its operating systems, though it has done community previews of other releases before.

"How long until the OS hits the market," is one question many will ask. Microsoft's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was on hand to answer questions about the new OS, and he fielded this one. He stated, "Well, when we finally determine that it achieves the objectives from a completeness perspective and a reliability perspective that our customers would expect of us, then we'll go commercial. And when it does, it will be profitable from birth because we're going to price it to be that way."

While Microsoft's OS is similar, according to Mr. Ozzie, to Amazon's EC2 web service in some respects, it is overall rather unique. Some users will be confused, he says, to restart their computers only to find their hard drives empty. Despite the .NET foundation, developers will have to adapt to the new storage system and adapt to the new error handling system.

Mr. Ozzie says that Microsoft's growing interest in data centers and serving is the key to the company's success. He says, "It's a business that we will be in probably as long as there will be a Microsoft. ... Cloud computing is ultimately going to be 'do you trust this provider to have more to lose than I have to lose as a company if they mess me up?' And Microsoft has both the capacity to invest and the willingness to be in that end of a business, and give that kind of a trust assurance to developers and enterprises."

While many outside the development community will meet the news of this new Microsoft OS with a bit of confusion as it’s not something they can easily experience, the bottom line is that this OS will help drive a new generation of feature-rich websites. And while cloud computing from an architecture standpoint might be perplexing to some, being able to use rich applications like word processing online, with free storage, would be easy to understand, and a highly desired development.

As for Mr. Ozzie, he firmly believes the new OS represents the future of Windows, and is perhaps more critical than even Windows 7. He says that in 20 years, cloud computers will be household items and the once foreign concept will have been embraced, much as the personal computer was two decades ago. Says Mr. Ozzie, "It's a new kind of computer that 20 years from now we'll wonder how we did without."

FIRST STEP IN TO NEW WORLD

Dunia baru kini aku datang.

Sungguh suatu pengalaman yang sangat menyenangkan, memasuki dunia baru. Seperti bayi yang baru lahir aku datang dengan sejuta harapan baru.Aku akan mulai belajar dan bereksperimen .Harapan terbesar dari masuknya aku kedunia baru ini adalah perolehan manfaat yang mungkin bisa kudapat dari sini.Untuk kedepan mungkin akan sangat banyak sekali kekurangan yang ada dalam blog ini, maka dari itu sangat diharapkan bantuan dari semua pihak,terutama para blogger yang sudah berpengalaman,untuk memberikan kritik dan saran supaya blog ini akan semakin baik dan sempurna.

penghargaan terbesar kepada para pembaca apabila mau memberikan komentar atas artikel yang ditulis . Dan saya akan sangat merasa sangat tersnjung bila para pembaca mau menyumbangkan artikel pada blog ini supaya blog ini kian berwarna dan kaya nuansa.

terima kasih.