Fariz Blog — Nothin’ but simplicity..

Here’s the final marks of "Introduction to IT" subject at Informatics Management - Vocational Program of Universitas Brawijaya, for this semester (Odd-2009/2010). 

Here’s the final marks of Calculus subject at Informatics Engineering - Universitas Brawijaya (Class A) for this semester (Odd-2009/2010).

Increasingly more companies use Twitter for business – to do market research, do brand advocacy and reputation management and provide selected highlights from a conference or event. Twitter allows them to expand their brand and thus generate new opportunities.

In this article, Mahendra shows you how you can integrate Twitter into your Powerpoint presentation and receive instant feedback. Steven has written about using hashtags effectively. And also, you can learn more about Twitter Lists to follow people more closely.

But to be more innovative in the use of Twitter for a business setting, here are 10 useful tips.

1. Expand Your Network

You are a developer: you can help us developing new Islamic software to include in Sabily. For example: Hisn Al-Muslim (a software that displays Dua’s (supplications)) or Muallim (a Quranic Arabic teaching tool), and we have ideas to develop Islamic educational software for kids.

You are a graphic designer: you can help us by designing new themes for Sabily (desktop theme, Firefox theme, wallpapers etc.), create new banners to spread Sabily or design pictures for our software.

You have ideas to improve Sabily: they are welcome!

You can share your Internet bandwidth: download the Sabily files using torrent and seed them so downloads will be faster.

You can make a donation or become a sponsor: your money will help us sending free DVDs to people who can’t download them or afford them.

Help us improving Sabily and spreading it all over the world!

Source: www.sabily.org

It’s been a long time since I wrote in this blog regularly, due to many things. Now I present you my new blog, titled Islam Kita Semua. Its address is islamkitasemua.wordpress.com. Unlike this blog, my new blog ’speaks’ Indonesian. It mostly contains many articles from various sources. Shortly, just read and leave comments. Hope you enjoy it..

It is obvious that Barack Hussein Obama, the current president of United States of America (USA), used a very hypnotic slogan in his presidential campaign last year (2008), which was "CHANGE: We Can Believe In". That slogan had successfully drugged most people of USA, and even most people of the world, including Indonesia. It is understandable, as he had been expected by the world to be able to change the USA’s foreign policies, after all the mess his predecessor –George Walker Bush– had done with Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and most of the Muslim world.

Many people in Indonesia even had more pride and hope on him becoming the president of a superpower country. In my opinion, that was because of one rather unacceptable reason, which was an improper pride of Barry (the nickname of little Obama), concerning that he had been staying and studying in Jakarta for a couple years, when he was just an elementary school kid. They might have different opinion if only they know the truth. Now I can say, don’t expect too much on Obama! Why? I’ll tell you why.

Not an alcoholic, neither a workaholic. Not only a Nidjiholic, but I’m also a Kartoloholic! Yes, that’s a term mentioned by Galih, a friend of mine, right after watching Kartolo CS (Kartolo and Friends) last Saturday night, live at Engineering Faculty, University of Brawijaya, to define a person "addicted" to watch or listen to Kartolo’s play, just like each of us . Only one word can describe how their performance was: HILARIOUS!! 

Last Thursday (October 16^th, 2008) I went to Surabaya, attending the ITS (Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember) Job Fair 2008, along with Fanny A.K.A. Chebby, Muhlis A.K.A. Ucit, and Dimas A.K.A. Samid. We went by Fanny’s car. All of us wanted to use this opportunity to apply some available positions in some promising companies. It was only me who hadn’t been graduated yet (d’oh!).

After having some annoying (but full of experiences ) incidents with the car, we arrived at the site about 12 pm. We changed our shirts, washed our faces, then we entered the "Graha ITS" building to do some surveys first, before entering aour applications. I met some friends there, such as Rahmad, Intan, Edy, Adit, Zaini, Huri, Ariza, Habibi, and more. Inside the building, we searched for any electric socket to plug in the laptop and printer that we brought from home, as we hadn’t printed our application letters yet .

Since we’re not allowed to plug inside the building, we placed our laptop, printer, and other equipments right in front of the building, under the stairs. So not only the companies had their own booths inside the building, we –the job seekers– also had our own "booth" , as depicted in the pictures below, taken with Nokia 3230:
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The biggest football event of the year, Euro 2008, is entering the semi-final phase, where the best four fight each other due to their campaign to be the next champions of Europe. However, I ain’t gonna talk about the competition anyway.. While watching those entertaining matches on TV, I found that some Euro 2008 personalities’ faces resemble some celebrities in entertainment world..

Here they are, the list of them.. And you may also add the others!!

Victor Piturca (Romanian Coach) and Alan Rickman (actor - Harry Potter, Love Actually):

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Surpisingly, Van Oranje was defeated by The Russian Red Bears. Quite sad, but not any more after The Italians –I hate them so much– got kicked out by Spain. For Van Oranje, see you again in World Cup 2010 in South Africa!