Monday, February 02, 2004
Links
A friend once asked me why I seem to have this wealth of knowledge. Why I seem to be so smart. I would venture a guess that these links have a lot to do with it. The operative phrase here being "seem to be".
I used to have this ugly humongo link list on the left there. And as big as it is I keep wanting to add more (kinda like my bookmark habit, see below). So instead of making much more of a mess over there, I've decided to create a links page instead. It'd be kinda like a bunch of link-type blog posts mashed up together, only this time describing a bunch of links at the same time.
To keep things easy on the eyes, I've divided this links section into several categories. They are either in alphabetical order or some arbitrary psychological order I choose to impose upon you (your guess as good as mine). Generally they'll mostly be blogs (slipping the occasional website or two here and there), guessing that if you wanted a comprehensive guide to the Web you'd be better off browsing About.com, Yahoo! Directory or the Open Directory Project. Or Googlewhacking at random. You do remember don't you that there are other search engines aside from Google? And I haven't even mentioned Microsoft's new MSN Search (which I heard is quite good actually). And of course there's also Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia.
If I'm actually excited enough about any link I list here I'll post an 80x15 blog-button linking to them on the main side section. Or make one for them if they don't have one. Or, if I really have to, any button the site happens to provide.
And another note: these pages are obviously still under development. I doubt they'd ever be done. Abandoned, perhaps, but not done.
sub-sections
So here goes...
- Links: friends & acquaintances (coming soon)*
- Links: FOSS and the Software World
- Links: Free Culture and the Creative Commons
- Links: Blogosphere highlights
- Links: Web & Blog Tech
- Links: Cyber Activism
- Special Links: Tsunami Help
*I do have some thoughts to review you guys linked at my sidebar; just gimme a second as I'm still experincing brain-freeze from converting my links section...
other stuffs
In adition, here's some links that are not quite really 'external,' but I'd like to keep them handy anyways...
- this blog's contact form
- My Friendster user page
- Coding Tips for Ruli -- My first ever valid XHTML+CSS document
- My ripway file folder
- a selection of my CGD works (a bigger version here)
- FOSS Primer-on-a-Floppy -- 300kb intro to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
- Nias Island website
- mind-Dumpster public stats
- Remember to logout
And finally, here's my Mozilla/Firefox bookmarks file -- to repeat an old saying: I'm a packrat when it comes to hitting Ctrl-D, and I try to be systematic about it, but as you can see the list just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Sometimes I actually find the courage to delete an entry or two. Sometimes.
Currently its about 800kbytes. You have been warned.
See, I'm not so smart after all; I just spend waaay too much time online :p
blogchalk
a blogchalk is details about a personal (usually a personal) blog and its author. This not really a blogchalk in the technical sense of a search-engine attracting collection of meta-tags and keywords, but more a line by line description of who I am...
Male, born very-early eighties, Jakarta, Indonesia, from Niasi parents, doesn't surf, would love to learn how. Fresh undergraduate (majoring Communication Sciences, specialisation Advertising), not too bright in college. FOSS and Free Culture admirer, wanna-be hacker, purported digital visual graphic artist. Open- minded spiritual (extremely non-strict Lutheran Protestant Christian), too easily influenced, struggling man-boy. Interested in understanding reiki, prana, chi, and other forms of energy (wonder if I'll ever learn). My bloginality is INFP (get your bloginality from here). And finally, my real name is Ferdinand Fanötöna Zebua (but isn't it dangerous to tell the world one's real name? Some would say one should...)
this article is the main page of the links section of fERDI:)'s mind-Dumpster.
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| blogosphere
| blog-tech
| cyber-activism
| tsunami help
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But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
