Kaval ngadain acara gathering yang sayangnya dibatesin (cuma) untuk seratus peserta, karena keterbatasan tempat dan fasilitas. It went smoothly, rame dan meriah, sayang gw harus pulang duluan.

Jadi ceritanya pulang duluan pada hari ke dua Kaval Gathering 2008, ikutan mobil Mayon… bareng ma Icaks sama Ando, penuh juga tuh Cherokee dimuatin empat orang. Perasaan udah was was aja pas pulang, karena tali kipasnya bunyi terus, setelah lewatin Cisarua masuk tol Ciawi, kyknya udah lumayan lega, ga ada tanjakan terjal lagi, jadi kyknya pulang udah aman… dan setelah kira-kira 400 meter memasuki jalan tol terjadi lah hal yang dinanti-nantikan, tali kipasnya putus!

Singkatnya pengalaman pertama naek mobil sambil di derek, huahahaha, interesting. Akhirnya berangkat dari Cisarua jam 14.15 sampai kostan jam 21.30! Quite an experience,

• duduk di rumput pinggir tol nungguin derek tol,
• menahan diri dengan ga mencari solusi transportasi lain
• merencanakan berbagai rencana-rencana alternatif yang bodoh untuk mengisi waktu selama menunggu, seperti rencana menyembunyikan mobil di semak2 dan pulang naek transportasi lain

Alhamdulillah sampai juga di kostan

I know how blogging with wordpress is made much more easier when you install ScribeFire extension to your Firefox, but from here it’s much more than that… aside from making blogging much more easier it’s also easier on the bandwidth, so people (like me) who blog less coz of bandwidth problems can take advantage and blog right away… by clicking the ScribeFire icon on the status bar area of my Firefox!

How so?
If you have lo-bandwidth connection you’ll have to login first, which then take you to the wordpress Dashboard, and in lo-bandwidth connection you’ll have to wait till all the links and everything else in the Dashboard loaded… and then when you click the link to Write a new Post, it gets better, you’ll have to wait till the textarea is loaded and everything else that are loaded from external sources, this is especially slow if you use Visual Editor to blog. And this is where ScribeFire comes to the rescue.

On first installation you’re gonna have to configure your blog, and after that everything becomes faster, you’d click the button on the right part of Firefox status bar and voila, even if you’re using Visual Editor, it’ll load in seconds, in fact instantly… you start writing something, set Categories, set Tags, probably throw some images and whatnot, finally ‘Publish to “myblog”‘, and it’s all done.

Awesome!
You bet… well, you’ll have to use Firefox though, it’s not available for any other browser. After getting Firefox installed, just download the latest version of ScribeFire from the link below (at the time of writing it’s version 2.0.1) :

download ScribeFire from Firefox Add-ons, oh, FYI, I’m blogging this using ScribeFire! hehehe…

So we the hi-bandwidth people won’t be needing this anyway?
Well, if you really like to post using the wp-admin, then I don’t see the need for you to… but you should know that ScribeFire features more than just quick flick blogging, see for yourself on the download page. I think it’s a good replacement for the wordpress admin page (or movabletype admin page or any well-known blogging engine featuring xmlrpc out there).

Conclusion?
Try it!

So, udah kira-kira 4 minggu sejak gw mulai lagi lari pagi. Tahun lalu sih kadang-kadang lari pagi juga, tapi ga beraturan, kadang sebulan cuman sekali, kadang dua hari pertama lari pagi, dan sebulan setelah itu baru mulai lagi.

Kira-kira 5 minggu lalu itu gw lagi nongkrong di Bang Ijul, hari itu Deo (sang Tabib) juga di sana, rencananya Deo esok harinya mao berangkat ke Makassar selama kurang lebih 3 bulan buat kerjaannya, maka gw minta analisis terakhir dari Tabib kita itu: ada kabar buruk dari Deo… “hati-hati loe, ada gejala-gejala Kolesterol nih”. “Ooo, okay” kata gue.
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