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For people who know me, they probably also know that one of my hobby is Photography. For most of big events that I attended, or while traveling outside Jakarta, I always bring my camera along with its accessories. Sometimes I bring a small shoulder bag, sometimes I bring a big backpack for it. Thus, this blog post will explain about me and photography, how I started and where I am right now in photography.

The hobby actually started sometimes while I was in elementary school, as I was always interested in taking photos as well as bringing a camera with my - my dad’s camera, which is a simple pocket 35mm film camera made by Canon with a fixed lens (without zoom). That camera has already ended it’s career as of now (I think it was borrowed by someone and never got returned). I used that camera for some years, during the junior high years when I had a couple of camping (a school’s event) in the mountainous area of Sukabumi, and I started to like taking pictures (really like the sound of the shutter plus the film advancing - quite missing that sound now as I now shoot with digital). However, at those period I am not even an amateur photographer, I just enjoy taking pictures. I had no idea about shutter, diaphragm, or even zooming.

I started becoming more serious about photography about one year after I entered high school. It was the time when I am about to attend the National Science Olympic (Olimpiade Sains Nasional - OSN) of 2003, that my dad bought me a Nikon CoolPix 5700 digital camera (I bought a 512mb CompactFlash card - which still works today to replace the included tiny 32mb card), which was the most advanced prosumer non-DSLR digital camera available at that time. The Nikon D100 digital camera or the Canon 10D was quite too expensive at that time. With this CoolPix 5700 camera, I took about at least 5000 photos, including some trips to other cities, a trip to India (New Delhi and Taj Mahal), as well as some event documentation (I also bought a used Nikon SB25 Speedlight to shoot the indoor events - the flash still works well today with my new camera). Sometimes along the way, I also bought an extension tube and a couple of filters (linear polarizer and UV, I guess).

About a month before departure to Athens for my first International Olympiad in Informatics, my dad upgraded my camera into my first DSLR camera, the Nikon D70. It was newly introduced and was the first DSLR to be affordable to me, along with it’s excellent 18-70mm kit lens which I still use today most of the time. Currently, this camera has taken 18.907 shots (which means around 5000 photos a year), and still works (although it’s mirror or shutter sometimes caused a black shadow in half of the image during long exposures). I have bought two additional lenses for it : a Sigma 70-300mm tele zoom which also does macro (it’s actually very nice to take candid pictures from afar), and a Nikon 50mm F/1.8 with it’s excellent sharpness and great low light performance. Currently, I am thinking of having another lens to cover the wide angle which is useful for landscape and indoor shooting.

Well, enough with the technical parts, now I would like to reflect a little bit about my photos. Actually, out of these 23000photos, I have to admit that I have less than 100 photos that I really like (those kind of photo that I would like to print out in large enlargement and put it in a frame if I have a space to hang it). Out of that, there are about only less than 10 photos that really touches my by heart, those kind of photos that will bring me back to the time I took it and really feels that it is "live" and will not be forgotten (by me) until several years to come. Just a few days ago, I luckily made a couple of this kind of photo and I finally realized something.

Out of these years of me doing photography, I actually tried to "freeze" all the moments I went through and hoping that viewing the pictures will bring me back to that point when I want it. It turns out that this is not the case : however good the picture is, it will never resembles the true moment, just part of it. The true moment itself however, may live in my heart as a great experience. Therefore, from now on, I will try not to pointlessly click the shutter just to attempt to freeze the moment. There are times when the moment should be felt with the heart instead of being frozen (which may cause it to partly loose it’s meaning). Sometimes, taking to many pictures makes me forget to enjoy the moments, an experience that may not be happening again in the future.

Then, I also realized that the tendency to "shoot everything, pick later" is basically an effect of fear of letting the great moments pass by. You may have already experienced the times when you feel really really happy, and you really don’t want the happiness to go away when the event ends. Taking a lot of pictures does not solve that, it is just a weak relief out of that situation. Having thought of this, I think my life is too inclined to events, instead of routines. Bringing those kind of happiness into daily life is probably the real solution. Thus, take the documentation as only "souvenirs from the past" instead of something to look into when you miss some part of your life.

Photography may have changed my life, but at least it made me realized something, and that is all worthed.

As always, I welcome any comments you may have and thanks for reading.

-Kurniady

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After quite a very long time, a few days ago I got a flu - a serious one that forces me to skip a class and took a day off to recover. But then, it gives me a lot of time to think, something that rarely happen lately, as my mind is always full with projects and other stuffs (which may or may not - usually not - important). After a while, I found a time that I don’t have to do anything, just sit down, rest, and probably think. That feeling of peace really do have a good effect on my health, as I already mostly recovered on the next day to deliver a final presentation on the Software Engineering course.

So, now, after the Software Engineering course is over (well, 98% over, actually, as we still have to submit the client acceptance statement and also probably a paper), I only have one project left, the Enterprise Application which is due next week on Wednesday. That means, now I have more time to think and relax.

Well, what have I been thinking? Well, actually I felt that lately I changed a lot. I am now more realistic to life, but unfortunately have partly lost my motivation on achieving the best out of myself. Lately, I have become more lazy and less disciplined. For the last couple of years, I always wandered why my results are not as good as before, although I did succeed in several things as well. Now I know why : I did not try hard and smart enough like before. I wasted a lot of time and somehow lost my interest in learning and also lost my persistence in learning things. I gave up more easily now, and that explains why I did not reach the top most of the time.

So, I think it’s the time for me to change. It’s time to go forward instead of living in the success of the past. It’s time to break the limits again. It’s time to go out of my comfort zone and take the new challenges. It’s time to determine my future. Wish me luck!

-Kurniady

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The year 2007 is coming to an end, I guess it’s now the time to review and summarize what have happened during this wonderful year:

• From the financial perspective, my investments and savings are doing good during this year, ended with about 85% growth in terms of asset (cash and securities). The amount of liability is nearly zero (as usual), except for the outstanding bills due on January. Most of the gain comes from the incredible growth of Jakarta Composite Index (IHSG) during the year.
• About competitions : I participated in several competitions during the year. The ones that worth mentioning are the ACM ICPC World Final 2007, ACM ICPC Indonesia National Contest, ACM ICPC Asian Regional Contest - Taipei and Singapore site. The year ended with the a ticket to the ACM ICPC World Final 2008 in Banff, Canada. (stories are available in my site http://www.kurniady.net )
• There were 4 international travel for me this year, Tokyo, India, Taipei/Hongkong, and Singapore, as well as one trip to Surabaya, Indonesia. Altogether I flew 16 flight sectors (which means I took off and landed 16 times) in total.
• During the year, I have been successfully shifted from an introverted person into a balanced person (introverted and extroverted). Hopefully it will remain this way in the future.
• I stayed single during the whole year, hopefully it’ll not be the same for next year as I already see the light.

Outlooks for 2008 and beyond :

• The stock market may not be growing as fast as this year, but then I will assume at least 50% growth in my asset. I should start making monthly budgets and planning, to help me achieve even further.
• Next year will be the last chance for me to participate in the ACM ICPC World Final, afterwards, I will not be able to compete again in any ACM ICPC event. However, there are still other opportunities such as the events organized by Topcoder. I should start participating in development competitions as well.
• I think there will be around 4 to 5 international travel next year, plus visiting my hometown of Pontianak.
• I will be doing my final semester in the second half of 2008, and hopefully will graduate on early 2009. After that, a continuation to either a Ph.D degree in NUS or to a Masters degree in business is very likely. The other option is to work overseas. During 2008 I will need to take a considerable amount of time researching and deciding what to do in 2009, as it is very important for my future.

The year 2007 has been a wonderful year for me, which will not be possible without the support of my family and friends. Thank you very much ^_^ and may we all have a great year of 2008.

-Andrian Kurniady

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Most (if not all) people who use computers know what a File is, which is, in short, a piece of data with name, size, type, etc. A file can be a Word document, a text document, an executable binary, a compressed archive, etc.

Having a lots of files means you own a lot of information. However, it soon becomes problem when the number of files you own grows (uncontrollably). As a student, as well as a computer hobbyist, you may have already guessed that I have this kind of problem as well. What I am aware of is that I produce (and collect) lots of files which have accumulated for several years now. Currently, I have several thousands (or tens of thousands) files, totaling to about more than 200gigabytes in size. That does not include files that have been archived into CDs or DVDs. So, I guess now it’s time for me to think about how to organize those files.

Generally, I think the problems with having too many files are :

• Storage size : what if you run out of space? (is not a problem if you have unlimited storage)
  • My current solution : add more drives, archive to DVDs
• Organization : how to organize them in a logical way? (is not a problem if you have an AI agent that knows about all your files and can find and order them for you automatically)
  • My current solution : per-category separation, shallow hierarchies (2-3 levels), but still needs a lot of work to maintain (otherwise there will be many "unsorted" files).
• Storage reliability : how big is the risk of losing these files? (is not a problem if your hardware never fails and the filesystem never crashes)
  • My current solution : RAID-1 (mirrored storage) - basically store the same data in two identical drives (just in case one fails)

However, the types of files also matters. I think files can be categorized as :

• Other people’s work - easily re-obtainable (Cat 1)
  • This kind of file can be easily downloaded from the internet, or something you can retrieve from other medias
  • Generally I don’t care to much about the storage of this kind of files, since losing it is not much of a problem. Lately, I have been deleting small downloaded files, because redownloading them when needed is much simpler than organizing the files.

• Other people’s work - not easily re-obtainable (Cat 2)
  • This include big files, or files acquired through some occasional events or procedures, or files that is no more available elsewhere.
  • Still have to be stored well

• My work (Cat 3)
  • I generally save everything I made, directly and indirectly. This include codes, history, logs, reports, documents, homeworks, and of course, photos.
  • Losing any of this kind of file means losing it forever, unless manually remade.

Currently out of these 200gigabytes I mentioned, I guess around 100 to 150 gigs are of Cat 3 while the the rest of them are of Cat 2 and Cat 1. So, that means later when I run out of storage, I should delete these Cat 1 files first (or should I do it now? hmm…).

Organizing files have always been needing a lot of work and time. Several years ago, I categorized my files in a deep-hierarchy structure. But that approach require quite a lot of effort everytime I store a file, which caused a lot of new files stays in the unsorted area (because it takes time to organize them to the structure). Lately, I have changed into a more flat-hierarchy kind of structure, and it is quite successful in making me less hesitating to organize my files upon creation. However, these legacy "unsorted" files are still needing a lot of work to be organized (I am thinking of encapsulating all of them into a compressed archive and not trying to organize them anymore, to reduce the backlogging). I had spent several hours (or even days) lately to organize all of those files, but still, there are a lot of work to be done.

I guess I should consider using the "label and search" kind of strategy (with Google Desktop apps maybe?) and forgot about organizing the files altogether (if you can still find the file when needed, why bother categorizing?…)

So, what do you think? Do you have any strategy on organizing your files?

-Kurniady

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Finally, e.COM 2007 is now done (since last week, actually). Generally, from the e.COM System point of view, it was done quite successfully. All of the modules worked as intended, except for some simple bugs which could’ve been avoided if I tested them thoroughly. Really sorry for those who are experiencing problems with the system. While the bugs had been fixed quickly, I know it’s been serious problems for some of you. And now, the e.COM 2007 report for IT division is done, so that’s all about e.COM 2007 for me (except for the closing dinner on September 22nd). Thank you so much for all of the committees, it’s been a hard work and it’s been a wonderful time working with all of you.

Sometimes after the end of e.COM 2007, however, I have had two bad news. The first one is I have not advanced to the Round 2 of TopCoder Collegiate Challenge (TCCC) Algorithm competition. The second one is that I also have not advanced to the Round 3 of TCCC Marathon match competition. Those news means that I will not be in Orlando, Florida next month for the onsite finals T_T. Probably I should try again next time, and I know I will.

Right now, my fifth semester of study in BiNus International have started. Although it’s been just a week, I noticed that there may be some hard work to be done this semester, especially for the "Software Engineering" course. The course includes a real project (software development) to be done for a real client (or at least, one of the lecturer want it that way). I’m quite doubtful that the new program will be successful though. Just wait and see…

Oh yes, there was a surprise from my friends on my birthday (6th of September). I was really happy and would like to thank you all, for being my friends. ^_^ I’m now twenty years old, single, lonely, and still don’t know what will happen in the future, so wish me luck!!

In contrast to the not-so-clear intention of the Software Engineering course, I have just looked into the TopCoder Component Development competition, which looks quite interesting. Basically it’s a competition where I have to do something like the project in the Software Engineering course, but with a very clear design document explaining what to do. This is much more worthy to be pursued, I guess. The components posted are in Java or .NET, where a complete UML design is available and all we do is just to code it as specified. Being more complicated than the Algorithm competition, this kind of competition offers about USD 500 to USD 1000 prize per project for the best submission, and half of that amount for the second-best submission. Judging that there are usually less-than-half-a-dozen competitor for a specific project, the chance to frequently win the prize is very high for me once I learned how to do it correctly. Probably I should start competing in Development, and I should start soon.

Another thing is about my files organization. Currently I am struggling (again) to organize my files (some tens of thousands of them). Having a PHP Gallery2 and a new hosting provider (which provides some 200gigs of space in their server for me) somehow simplifies the organization of photos, but not other files. I guess this time I have to focus on organizing the files (all of them), otherwise it will continuously affect my productivity.

On the top of all of these, I am now interested in learning about "Ruby on Rails". Previously I looked on either Ruby or Phyton, but it turns out that Ruby is much better documented and is simpler to be used. Therefore, I think I am going to use Ruby to create my own personal database web applications (such as for tracking my belongings, my CD collections, books, contacts, etc.). Hopefully it worked well, so that I can one day organize all of my things neatly (which, based on experience, greatly enhance my productivity).

So, thats the end of a chapter about e.COM, and a beginning of a new chapter focused on learning and software development. I really hope it’ll be useful in the future, what do you think?

-Andrian Kurniady

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“Learning”, I have been thinking about this topic lately. There are several things I felt about learning, from my point of view as a Computer Science student as well as an independent person. Lately, I am feeling like, I am not learning fast enough. There seems to be so many topics to be learned (mostly are not about the course lessons though, they are about the Algorithms). Sometimes, while learning, I realized that out of these many topics (most are some subtle algorithms for solving some problems), there seem that many person out there (especially competition enthusiasts) have mastered much more than I do. Thanks to the “flat world”, this is becoming a problem, because most competitions I join are international, and mostly online as well. Somehow, I feel like I have to accelerate my learning, otherwise I will never catch up with the champions.

However, learning requires two three things : materials, time, and motivation. Acquiring the text materials is no more difficult thanks to the internet, and motivation is certainly not a problem for me. However, time is a problem. I realized that I can’t learn much while I’m multitasking (which, means, having the long term projects, especially big software projects while learning). Having these extra burden while learning significantly distracted my concentration on a single topic, which means, wasting my time when learning things.

These works (project - especially e.COM System) however, can not be abandoned anyway. Although I don’t learn much doing projects, I have committed to do it. Therefore, I think the best solution is to have the projects done as soon as possible, and for the future, I should limit the number of tasks to do at one time. I think it is about at most one project at a time in the future, which should not be a big project, one week of work at most. For this time, I aim to finish the whole e.COM System by the end of July. After that, I will focus on learning algorithm, in preparation for the ACM ICPC Regionals 2007. Last time, I did not prepare enough to achieve the top positions. This time, there should be no more compromise, as this will be my last chance of joining the ACM ICPC. The world is changing, the competitors are growing, and I’m afraid that if I don’t learn fast enough, I will never reach the top.

In the past, I focused more on software development. Later on, I realized that the world of software development does not mean much : it is something that an average programmer can learn easily. Software development is more about work : if you work, you’ll be able to do it. However, algorithms and competitions are different. Here, learning means something, and time is important as well. In a simpler way : if I practice too much software development now (J2EE or web development, for example), the skills I get will be useless in a few years to come. It is different with algorithms, which is growing, rather than changing. Once I master all of the common algorithms, improving should require less work because new algorithms don’t come up that often. Most algorithms in use today basically comes from 60s, 70s, 80s, but so few comes from 90s or the last few years. Therefore, it’s less likely to become obsolete anytime soon. Compare with web development, where a handful new technologies comes out every month. Without understanding these changes, any programmer will most likely either end up jobless in ten or twenty years, or otherwise work as a low level programmer for the entire career.

The world of computer science is growing, while software development is changing. Most programmers are software developers instead of scientists. Learning software development is much easier than learning the science, but software development require a more of constant learning due to its changing nature. Learning is the only way for a programmer to survive the future, and that’s why I don’t want to be a programmer for my entire career, it’s not a stable job. What do you think?

-Andrian Kurniady

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Its now the second week of the compact semester. More or less, I’m now able to enjoy my life again, not extremely busy, but at least I still have things to do. I found out that having a complete holiday (i.e. sleeping >10hours a day) is not good for health anyway. Sleeping that long, I often wake up with a headache. @_@ Sleeping 7 to 8 hours are more healthy in my opinion.

I am starting to realize how nice it is to have a balanced life. I think that in the past, I spent too much time having fun while working on something, which makes the works take a lot more time than needed. That means, less time to really have some fun. Starting from now on, I will focus on working at daytime from Monday to Friday. Other than that, it is the time to have fun, at least doing something that I really like.

The e.COM System development, however, was not quite running as planned. The reason is just like explained in the book "The Mythical Man-Month". In short, additional number of developers does not add any benefit to the project. In practice, having too many developers can also be a burden, because there will be the need of training, etc. before they can perform work. That is sometimes usually cost more time than having one person who do all the work. On e.COM System, however, I have to transfer the knowledge about the maintenance and development of the system to the next generation, because I will not handle the system development anymore after this time. e.COM 2007 will be the last e.COM to have its system maintained by me. Thus, I need to balance the work, I should try to do part of the development on my own, but at least I have to explain how it works to Binusian 2010s who are part of the team. Fortunately, this time, my experience and understanding about the system and its underlying technology has gone much much better than last year. For the time being, I will distribute the materials and have the others understands how to deploy and test it at least. I will do the modifications, because these will need too much extra effort to be taught.

For the courses in the Compact Semester, I guess there are not much to worry about. I’m quite sure that I will pass Macroeconomics with a good score overall, if I spend some time studying about it carefully (which does not mean listening to the lectures, because honestly I think it is wasting too much time). Numerical methods are fine, because I am already familiar with numeric calculations for the competitions. And for Character Building IV, definitely no worries at all.

So, enjoy the Compact Semester… (or holiday for some of you). Whatever the work is, don’t forget to have fun ^_^

-Andrian Kurniady

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The past week have been very tiring, but very exciting as well. The competition was a great success for me. Thanks for everyone’s support for that ^_^. It was tough, but I finally did it. Inspired by Stephanie FA, since that event, I decide to use "lalala" as the method name for every recursive function I made for competitions in the future, except when it is impossible. That was how I solved one of the hardest problem in the competition, and I think it is good for the future as well…

After the competition, things get easier… The exams was fine, although I study only one day before the exam… It seems that the exams was not as hard as what I have anticipated, so now is the time for me to pray for the best results (which, based on experience, may come in a few weeks or few months…). Luckily the exams ended (for me) on Wednesday, so that I have a few days to rest before the beginning of the compact semester… However, the holiday was not perfect. An Object Technology course assignment suddenly came up and was due Saturday. It took some work to complete, but I’m glad that I did it well… so, for now, no more assignment…

Having less worried, I was able to do a lot more things. I met an friend from high school who are back from China for a holiday. Together we tried a yoga class in Fitness First in Plaza Semanggi. It was interesting, but very exhausting as well (probably it wasn’t, it’s just me who are still tired).

As for the compact semester, the schedule is quite nice. I’m off on Monday and Friday, but I guess another ACM ICPC training is already in place for Saturday. So, although I will not be as busy as in the previous few months, there will be still some work to do… And yes, another e.COM System… last year it was tough, because it was my first time handling e.COM System as well as the technologies used in there. My team was great last year, they helped a lot in getting the system done. This year, I think I am going to have another great team, so things should be done more easily this time. Anyway, I will not start working until Tuesday, I still want these free days to be fun and relaxing…

Happy holiday, have fun! ^_^

-Andrian Kurniady

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Its Friday, its June 15, and you guess!! Tomorrow is the Final round of INC 2007. Its my first time to compete in this new team (Me, Dennis, Peter), and the competition will be tough (think of NoMoreAC team who have been together for a while). I am used to compete with the YoiAC team (Me, Felix, Andoko), but sadly the team have to broke up because Felix graduated and move to NUS.

I’m quite confident though, and the only thing I fear of is that I may make some bugs tomorrow and mess the whole thing. I have made countless of silly bugs, and although I learned a lot from those bugs I made and fixed, new bugs still comes up very often in my coding. All I do today is have a really good rest and hope for the best tomorrow, as I made more bugs when I’m sleepy or tired. I really need to be in my best condition tomorrow, it’s my only chance to win.

I’ve done a lot of things in preparation though. I finished the important parts of a couple of books in the last week. The first is "The Practice of Programming". I recommend this book to ALL computer science students, it really shows you how to do good coding. It really matches with my experience, but still, I learn a lot out of it. The second book is "C++ Standard Library Practical Tips", which shows how to use the C++ STL and other standard library (such as <string> and streams) effectively. Some tips in it allows coding of common procedures as short as a single line (such as reading input or printing output). These procedures needs at least 3-4 lines without these tips. Both are great books, and I bought both in Bangalore, India during my last trip.

The last preparation I do is now compiling and printing out my Team notebook. This time, it will be based on our YoiAC World Final 2007’s team notebook. I added a page containing extra tricks I learned recently, especially the C++ Standard Library functions that I think will be useful. This notebook contains common algorithms, cheatsheets of mathematical formulas, and some templates. Although in my experience we don’t use much of the notebook during competition, I prepare my best just in case I need it (this time I don’t have Felix in the team who seems to remember everything).

All set and ready, its now time to pray and try my best. I must remember to take the chocolates before tomorrow’s competition, drink enough, and eat enough during the exhausting 5-hour competition. Wish me luck !!! and also, good luck for all of the teams who will compete tomorrow.

-Andrian Kurniady

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As you may have known already from my previous blog posts, the past one month has been a very very busy month for me, loads of projects, events, etc. that have virtually taken most of my time everyday. I haven’t got much time to relax, rest, or even play any games… But things have changed since last Wednesday. It was the deadline for all of my projects (except Computer Graphics which have been submitted a week before). Since two or three days before that, I have slept as little as only five to six hours a night. I basically do the projects until late night, and wake up early in the next morning to attend classes. As I am someone who normally sleep seven to eight hours a day, these days had been really exhausting for me. Some classmates have even skipped the night sleep altogether for the last day, rushing the projects into completion. But all of us really feels relieved, at least everything was over and we now have at least a bit more time to rest and relax…

In terms of result, I must say that I am quite satisfied. Although the projects did not complete as good as what I am capable of making, at least the deliverable and scores fulfilled my expectation based on the amount of work I put on them. It is just right at the level where extra efforts or features does not add up to the score anymore. Congratulations for all friends who have already finished their projects as well, I know some of you worked real hard to achieve that ^_^

There are many works coming though, as exams are coming this very next week, and the ACM ICPC Indonesia National Contest (ACM INC) is going to start with an online preliminary round tomorrow. Somehow I feel that for this time, the exams are going to be much more difficult than the mid exam or any of the previous exams. There are just so much thing as theories, syntax, etc. to memorize, and I am not sure whether I can memorize all of them. Anyway, I’ll try my best and we’ll see what will happen. Regarding the ACM INC programming contest, I guess this time I have to work real hard during the competition days. I expect this time it’ll be much more challenging than the previous BNPC-CS. I still have to complete parts of my skill that haven’t been practiced much such as network flow and A*. I guess a week should be enough to at least try some of those algorithms, no need to memorize since I can just add them to the team notebook. There are also the e.COM System project coming, and to be honest I haven’t got any idea on how to distribute the work to my team members… This time I really need some advices from expert Java programmer on how to split the work of Java web application projects…

Besides work, I guess other things have also got better than before. I think I should just let go those things that does not really deserve to be chased for, and focus on getting more important things done. I guess I have to reorganize my financial matters, as I haven’t done much of it for several months. Another things that deserve more attention is my room. I bought a lot of books and items that mostly haven’t been organized well in my room, taking up spaces that they shouldn’t. The same thing goes to the computer file storage. Pictures, documents, musics, have been scattered unorganized in the system. If these files are not organized soon, I sense some disaster coming when some hard drives fail.

Speaking about digital storage, I guess many of us don’t really think about the security and reliability of our storage media. Some people just store their files in whatever harddisk they have and can’t do anything when the disk is broken. For avoiding this kind of things, I have used RAID-mirroring for the disks in my file server for some years already, and although there hasn’t been any failing disks yet, I feel a little bit less worried simply by doing that kind of mirroring. I guess for computer science students, especially those using laptops, data backup should have better priority. It’s certainly a disaster to lose the nearly-completed projects, if it happens.

I guess there are still much to say, but before this blog got too long, I should stop here and continue next time. Please feel free to leave any comments you may have, I’ll really appreciate those…

-Andrian Kurniady

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