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Documenting the rise of Digital Indonesia

by Vishnu Mahmud, Indonesia

Hackers of Southeast Asia unite!

Nov 25, 2009 13:59

(Disclaimer: Yahoo! is a client and did NOT pay or request for this blog post. However, the writer does believe this event to be pretty significant in Indonesian technology circles.)

There once was a time when we in Indonesia could only look with envy on TV, the newspapers or via Wired Magazine all the fun stuff that geeks and hackers around the world experienced. Conferences, seminars, LAN parties and what-nots were all happening around the world and many of us felt left out. Heck, to get a good Betamax video deck, those of us in Indonesia had to buy it in Singapore or Hong Kong!

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Banned Xbox 360 means rise of the PS3?

Nov 16, 2009 09:32

The great Xbox 360 banning recently continued by Microsoft brings me to an unusual conundrum. I desperately want to play the latest first-person shooter, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which is available for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. Being an avowed Mac person, having a PC is out of the question (I don't want to fight off viruses all the time!!!), and I took my Windows partition off my Mac (courtesy of Apple's Bootcamp) once I finished playing Left4Dead.

The first alternative for me was the Xbox, which, despite being made by the Evil Empire (my ire against Bill Gates professionally goes way back, although personally I think he's a nice guy, thanks to his foundation), it is a great gaming machine, and is targeted for guys like me (first-generation gamer, hardcore and FPS tactical sniper).
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Pesta Blogger 2009: A national "coffee break"

Oct 27, 2009 20:10

Pesta Blogger, Indonesia's national gathering of bloggers, came and went. With over 1,200 people signed up, the SMESCO building in Jakarta was overflowing with people from all ages, regions and backgrounds who share one common ideal: The freedom of blogging and the empowerment it brings.
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Make sure you stop and smell the roses

Oct 23, 2009 14:02

Time flies.

It's been over three years since I last posted here. A job transfer to Singapore (kind of like what Budi is experiencing now) prompted me to give up blogging as my responsibilities back then did not allow it. Funny how things turn out.
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About Vishnu Mahmud

Geek, writer, photographer and traveler, Vishnu K. Mahmud is actually a professional corporate communications consultant for various industries.Despite his ever demanding day job, he seeks to change the world through efficient eco-technology and old world science. At the moment, he is observing the ever fast transformation of his resource-rich home country entering the digital domain.