Busy life

I've been so busy with almost everything for the week. In fact, I haven't been online at home for the past 4 days.

Got a small project doing small application. Hope to finish it in 2 weeks. In the other hand, still have to finish the library system for church.

Documentation and compiling Youth Camp 2007 video recording are also in the list. So.. I'm trying to list it out here:

1. Library System for GBC
2. StockSys for new client
3. Audio recording (YC 2007)
4. Video recording (YC 2007)

I'm going to bed soon. More work tomorrow at office.

Closing the Youth Camp 2007

Final and closing meeting for the Youth Camp 2007 Project this afternoon. Had tons of evaluations and input from internal and external. Hope we all can do more of the best next year.

While the committee is dismissed, I have to do documentation for the Camp. Reports are coming in from each section since 2 weeks ago and I still have video that we recorded to edit.

I made online Google Groups for the Youth Camp here. For those interested in sharing in the community, do not hesitate to do join. It would be a nice cyberspace to play around and discuss in.

Less of Windows, more of Ubuntu

I am starting to line Gusty Gibbon more and more. Have been using it for most things to do with computing tasks at home. I still use Windows at office; still got some .NET programming to do (Yeah I know there is Mono Project, but my team is using Visual Studio and I can't force them to convert).

I like the visual effects in Gusty, seems more robust. I remember using the wobbling windows in Feisty as it was quite unstable.

This Gusty Gibbon is worth to try; doesn't cost much money. ^_^

Gusty Gibbon is here

The long awaited version of Ubuntu is here now. 7.10 named Gusty Gibbon. I have been looking forward to seeing this one. It has been said that lots of features including dual monitor management without shell command anymore (yeah...)

Downloading now... I think I can have it installed in a couple of days.

Youth Camp 2007

Another project finished. This time I feel so exhausted; in fact most of us feel so much exhausted unlike the previous camps. I don't know why.

Anyway, I had this feeling that we've done something great... Hope we (or they or whoever next year) can make it better next time.

Heaven & Hell

Came across some articles about Heaven and Hell. Just read the hell part and it really freaked the hell out of me. Hell is surely the last place I want to be.

I don't know if these stories are real or not, but I believe and know that it will happen no matter what. It's in the Holy Bible.

Indonesian version available here.

initConflict(Indonesia, Malaysia)

I first noticed the conflict since the Rasa Sayange being used in Commercial Website of Visit Malaysia.

So what? Even the Indonesian cannot prove that the song belong to Indonesia.

But from many problems that Malaysian has caused towards Indonesia, I now have the thinking that Malaysia is trying to cause trouble.

Links:

• Isteri atase pendidikan KBRI ditahan RELA [perkara remeh?]
• Malaysia: Disband Abusive Volunteer Corps
• Indonesia Lodges Protest Over New Malaysia Arrest
• House mulls reporting Malaysia to UN Human Rights Commission
• Indonesia protests to Malaysia over detention of diplomat's wife

Internet @ home

At last.. I'm connected even when I'm home. Telkom finally got their Speedy to Binjai. Not as cheap as TM Net @ Malaysia, but still much better than nothing. In fact, I'm impressed with the speed. 37+ KBps of download speed. I hope it doesn't get worse as time goes.

Addicted to Blogging

68%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?
Not so addictive at all.. ^_^

How many germs live on your keyboard?

I ran through the test and came out with this:
2,067,240How Many Germs Live On Your Keyboard?

Worship tools for church

I've been wondering if there were any tools/software to maintain songs and slides projected to the screen in churches. How dumb I was not searching it in sf.net as it has tons of resources. I know there were EasyWorship but it's commercial software (not free).

If you are running Microsoft Office PowerPoint just for simple slides (which does not provide great maintenance of your song database), you might want to check out openlp.org and OpenSong, and QProjector and free your church from unlicensed software (that means stealing).

I simply choose OpenSong since it manages the songs in individual files; easier to manage for small churches while QProjector uses MySQL database.

I'm planning to run OpenSong for tomorrow's youth service.

Tech in Church

I've been browsing sf.net for a while for some open source systems that can be used in church. I myself have been doing some Windows based systems for church using .NET; however, I just want to seek for open source alternatives.

I first came across ChurchInfo for church database and some other similar system, but this one fits the profile much better.
Tested most scenarios in my church and it appears that the system fulfills almost all of the requirements in my church. Might want to implement it using Linux; I like the idea of Open Source especially in church. ^_^

If I want to serve God with my capacity, I want to do the best out of it; and I think this is I do best, putting technology into church. If this project goes successful, I'm making a portfolio to implement in churches.

With this solution, we can have a running and working system with just hardware cost; no Windows license, no buying anti virus, less risk of spyware.

The funeral

Had the funeral at 15 PM; short one. Nobody could stand seeing the family mourns too long before the coffin. I'm out of tears for the last 3 days. Almost every church hymn reminds me of my uncle's beautiful voice. I can't imagine how we're going to survive next Sunday's service.

The cousins went to have some snack (the usual meatball) after the funeral as it has been like that since the last 3 funerals of the family. Had some laugh, but still something is missing; just time can heal this.

Be strong everyone.. God did not take him for nothing, He's got a much bigger plan.

In Memorial of Daymin Eden (莊達明)

Couldn't sleep yesterday, my mom was ill; and I know it's the burden of loosing the loved one. My dad blacked-out in the hospital. I was so confused when I reached the hospital yesterday morning; shocked by the view of my uncle on the bed, and my dad next to him barely conscious.

Slept late yesterday and woke up early, I decided to browse my photo collection (more than 40 thousand of pictures) and manage to find 43 of my uncle's picture. I just noticed that he's quite low profile that in most family occasion, he stood at the back or at the corner.

Compiled to photos into a short video, and I couldn't watch it myself as it made me cry. Still hope that this is a dream; just that it would be least likely to be a dream. -_-



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I'll see you later, uncle; we'll meet again.