the other night i chatted to a friend who knows a lot more in IT than me.. that's for sure, almost 75% of people i met will know more than me!! for you who knows me quite well, i'm sure you'll agree... haha...
anyway, suddenly we got to talk about my new hobby... blogging... the conversation went something like this:
IT: be careful with blogging
me: huh?! what about it...?
IT: i don't really agree with blogs, because it reveals a lot about the author, which can be really dangerous... if you blog about events, social topics, technical, etc it's okay... but never blog about your life... because somebody can search for it and find out a little too much about you...
me: hhmmm... but i don't post my private stuff... *not getting where he's leading to*
IT: yes... but most websites/blogs get indexed by search engines... and then everyone who searches it can access your blog, although you don't tell the address to anyone... *IT send me a page that contain my account from a site which i never told him about*
me: then... how do you know the limit? how much can you post?
IT: *send another page about my profile from blogger and friendster* you see... i can even find you... know some of your details, i can then use those info to call the bank as if i'm calling on your behalf... or call post office, saying that I'm your ex-roommate... then i extract where you live now from them... then use it to cross-check with phone company... and i have more info... once i have enough info, i'll either hack into your PC with the known details, or use it for online banking...
me: you made it sound so scary!!
IT: hmm.. NOW you're thinking.. :) see sometimes you have to think further... now think about your friends whose names are in your blogs... now they are exposed to the web... anyone could call as if they know them, and then use the published details for fraud... that's why i said blogs are dangerous... they are good if you're talking about technical/hobby topics, such as photography techniques, technical experience, etc.... but they can be VERY dangerous if used by the wrong person... if the blog space include personal details... such as birth date of kids... where they live etc.... coz some kidnappers can use those details to talk to the school the kids are enrolled in, and tell the teacher that they are the kids' uncle or whatever, and tell them that the kid was born on this date, live here and there, and that he likes this and that...
IT: i think personal privacy is very important, once they are out, there is no way you can retrieve them... the less the public know about you, the better...
me: hhmm never thought about it to that extent *shocked*... so what's the prevention for blogging?
IT: well, as I said, don't write about people, including yourself and the people you know... just do blogs on common topics, like health, technology, hobbies, etc.... NEVER about people... NEVER mention anything personal...
me: hhmm ok...
IT: once something is out on the web, you're screwed!!
me: even when you delete them? they can still be found?
IT: still can... once a website is indexed, although the website can be inactive, the cache may still exist...
me: hhmm... *don't know what else to say, too shocked*
IT: networks use caches to speed up page loading, rather than having to reload from the original web server... do a search on your name, and you can find stuff that you think others don't even know...
me: really?? *confused... and still shocked* so what should we do with the ones out there?
IT: just try to change the contents of what you already have... that's the first step... if you're lucky after a few years, search engines drop your blogs from their index... even my really old website is still online.. although it's already expired...
me: i see... have you really found extreme case like you told me just now?
IT: hmm, I think that's quite common in the US... since their internet awareness is high... in Australia there are lots on kids..
me: oh, about kidnapping?
IT: you see, that's why there are cases of paedophiles and sex crimes
me: iiiihhhh serem banget sih...
IT: iyeeeee.. makanya hati-2..
so... what do you think? ada tanggapan??
aku saking paniknya, langsung cari info sana sini lagi buat meng-clarify... wah pusing gak sih kalo emang bener begitu?... mungkin itu sih extreme cases ya... bisa coba baca
article ini juga... bukan mau nakut-nakutin... sekadar info... tapi... ya ada baiknya buat berhati-hati ya... extra hati-hati malah...
safe blogging ya...
By: syulie | Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 11:47 am
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US space shuttle - news.bbc.co.ukare you planning a holiday? do you need an idea? if places in the world cannot satisfy your adventurous sense anymore... why not consider tour to the space?
interested? read
here, a billionaire paid USD 25m for a tour to the space...
By: syulie | Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 3:42 pm
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sehubungan dengan hari kartini kemarin, di TVRI tadi pagi ada bincang-bincang soal kesetaraan gender... topiknya menarik... nara sumber yang hadir diantaranya
GKR Hemas (istri dari
Sri Sultan HB X) dan
Putu Wijaya...
disaat ada sesi interaktif... itu lho yang pemirsanya boleh telpon buat ngasih komentar atau bertanya... ada komen-komen menarik... simak deh dua diantaranya yang aku pikir paling menarik dibawah ini... perlu diingat ya kalo komen-komen ini gak sama persis, cuma aku ambil sarinya aja...
komen pertama dari seorang ibu:
bedanya laki-laki dan perempuan kan sebenernya cuma kalo perempuan bisa hamil dan melahirkan, laki-laki tidak... itu kodratnya... selain dari itu, kodrat laki-laki dan perempuan sama koq... jadi mulai dari cari uang, urus rumah dan mendidik anak-anak itu sebenernya tugas berdua... laki-laki dan perempuan...
wah aku setuju banget sama ibu ini... kalo perempuan bisa juga cari uang seperti laki-laki... kenapa laki-laki gak bisa juga masak atau bersih-bersih rumah dan mengurus dan mendidik anak membantu kaum ibunya ya gak? apalagi kalo dah menyangkut soal anak... anak itu kan titipan Tuhan buat kedua orang tuanya... bukan cuma ibunya...
komen kedua, datang dari seorang bapak... jadi gini, komen si bapak ini menanggapi komen GKR Hemas sebelum sesi interaktif dimulai... yang menyinggung contoh ketidak-setaraan gender di indonesia yaitu (1) dengan berkedok agama, wanita dilarang keluar malam... padahal kalo memang pekerjaannya menuntut wanita itu untuk keluar malam, kenapa tidak diperbolehkan... misalnya bidan dan dokter-dokter ahli kandungan... (2) dibatasinya perempuan-perempuan yang duduk di instansi-instansi pemerintah... begini komennya:
(1) larangan untuk perempuan keluar malam itu dibuat agama ditujukan sebagai perlindungan buat si kaum wanita itu sendiri... bukan untuk mengekang...
(2) dan perempuan masih banyak yang bodoh, karna itu kesetaraan gender tidak bisa diberikan untuk semua perempuan...
wah begitu denger komen ini, aku rasanya pingin langsung ikut telpon buat ngasih komen balasan... tapi pak Putu Wijaya dah juga ngasih komen balasan yang cukup jitu... kata pak Putu:
yang perlu perlindungan itu bukan cuma perempuan... laki-laki juga perlu perlindungan... perlindungan buat gak korupsi... perlindungan supaya gak gampang tergoda dan menjadikan itu sebagai alasan buat beristri banyak...
.......
yang bodoh pun gak cuma perempuan... laki-laki yang bodoh pun banyak... pandangan yang seolah-olah kebebasan itu dikasih kaum laki-laki untuk kaum perempuan itu salah besar... yang sebenernya, kebebasan memilih buat kaum perempuan itu memang haknya mereka... bukan dikasih dari kaum laki-laki...
wah lagi-lagi aku setuju banget... kebebasan itu milik semua orang... bukan cuma milik kaum laki-laki... tapi memang bukan berarti dengan adanya kesetaraan gender trus kaum perempuan ganti mau 'menjajah' kaum laki-laki... kita itu sama derajatnya... setara...
tapi di timur itu emang lucu ya... kalo ada masalah yang melibatkan laki-laki dan perempuan, selalu aja laki-laki yang sering dimenangin... misal, ada kasus perkosaan... bukannya laki-laki yang diadili, malah perempuan yang disalahin cara pake bajunya... loh?? apa dari kecil laki-laki itu gak diajarin untuk menghargai perempuan? apa laki-laki itu gak bisa mengontrol diri sendiri? gimana mau jadi nahkoda rumah tangga yang ngatur seisi rumah kalo ngatur diri sendiri aja gak becus? laki-laki itu manusia, sama seperti perempuan... yang diberi kelebihan kebebasan untuk mengatur diri sendiri... kalo kita gak bisa mengontrol diri sendiri terlebih mengontrol nafsu... apa bedanya manusia dengan binatang??
membela kesetaraan gender, bukan berarti trus aku membabi-buta... di radio kemarin sekilas ada himbauan soal jumlah menteri perempuan di kabinet... ada yang minta supaya jumlahnya sama antara menteri laki-laki dan perempuan... nah itu aku gak setuju juga... yang harus duduk di kabinet itu ya emang harus orang yang mampu... gak peduli dia laki-laki apa perempuan... kalo cuma mementingan gender tanpa kualitas... mau jadi apa negara kita ini? kapan majunya?
itu pendapat pribadi saya... kalo pendapat kamu?
By: syulie | at 2:13 pm
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anak kecil ini namanya angina... dia bukan anak temenku, apalagi anakku (aku kan belum punya anak hehe)... nemu fotonya waktu browing google... tapi lucu dan ngegemesin ya... nah dia lagi kartinian tuh... pake kebaya juga... kaya aku waktu kecil...judul posting ini diambil dari judul buku kumpulan surat-suratnya ibu
kartini... hhhmmm bener kan ya?? maksudnya kalo itu kumpulan surat-surat... kalo judulnya sih aku yakin bener...
besok tuh hari kartini... ada yang inget gak?... biasanya karna hari kartini itu bukan hari libur aku dah gak pernah inget lagi soal hari penting ini... (dasar orang kerja, ingetnya libur aja ya)
kemarin sore aku pas lagi di mobil dan dengerin radio, eh tiba-tiba penyiar radionya ngebahas soal ngedandanin anak mereka pake baju daerah buat hari kartini besok!
jadi terbawa ke masa lampau hihi... disaat aku juga mesti pake baju daerah (biasanya sih kebaya dan sampe sekarang pun aku masih pencinta kebaya)... buat ikut
carnival sama anak-anak SD yang lain... bangun musti pagi-pagi, dan mamaku ngedandanin aku dan adikku... komplit pake sanggul segala loh!... tapi sanggulnya pun mungil... emang buat anak-anak hihi...
sebagai cewe, hari ini tuh padahal penting banget ya buat aku? koq bisa-bisanya ya gak inget? *geleng-geleng kepala*... bayangin aja... kalo gak ada ibu kartini, aku gak akan bisa sekolah dan gak akan bisa kerja kaya sekarang... cewe-cewe akan di rumah dan di dapur aja kerjanya... dan gak boleh pinter!! wah wah wah... susah ya...
makanya... kita cewe-cewe indonesia harus berterima kasih ya sama ibu kartini... kalo gak ada beliau, gak tau deh kemana emansipasi wanita indonesia...
terima kasih ibu kartini...
By: syulie | Friday, April 20, 2007 at 8:21 pm
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reading
this today, i suddenly remember of australia water crisis... then i remember when jakarta was flooded last february... at that time i can't help thinking...
can someone invent something that can transfer excess water from here, my first home, to drought area, like my second home?...
jadi inget... dulu waktu kecil suka dikasih teka teki... gini bunyinya...
apa ini? waktu kecil jadi teman, waktu besar jadi musuh?... apa hayo?
jawabnya: ria (retaw) dan ipa (erif)
tolong bacanya dari belakang hihi... susah ya? gak seru donk kalo jawabannya dikasih secara gampang... *lagi iseng nih*
By: syulie | at 7:32 pm
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what a sad sad world we live in today...
last monday 16 april 07, 23-year old South Korean student, Cho Seung-Hui shot dead 32 students and staff where he also was a student in Virginia Tech University, Virginia, USA... before he shot himself... one of the victims is Indonesian student from Medan, Partahi Mamora Lumbantoruan...
there are enough tragedy and sadness from nature in the world without people adding to it... america has hurricanes, australia has bush fires, indonesia has everything from natural disaster like earthquake to transportation accidents... really, they are enough... without man has to add into it... although the man later was found to have a mental care...
the right to bear arms... with my limited knowledge, i can only guess that it means civil is allowed to own a gun to protect himself... this is in america...
can you control guns with more guns? would the world be a safer place with civil have guns? my personal opinion is no, what is yours?
read some article here and watch some documentary about this here...
By: syulie | Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 1:46 am
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'you should be grateful for what you have...'
this saying, i bet, is soooo familiar to all of us.... but more often than not, we forget about being grateful...
this morning i got a message from one of my good friends that this afternoon her left eye is going to be operated to get the torn
retina fixed... what a shocking news! from her i found out that doctor said if operation isn't done asap, her left eye can go blind... she must feel so sad... as a friend, i am also sad... i can only pray for her that the operation goes well and everything will be ok...
eyes are one window to see the world... when we have healthy eyes we usually take them for granted... when we have to face a situation like this, only then we realise how important they are... how important our health is... how important being grateful is...
uli... semoga operasinya lancar dan cepat sembuh ya...
By: syulie | Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 2:31 pm
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courtesy of www.fig.net/jakartai can't recall if i have been here before... but i got one chance the other night... i have heard about the food here and one of reviews i read was that it serves one of the best buffet in town!
located in
JW Marriott Hotel Jakarta, it was named after one of the ancient Javanese dynasty (do you remember your history lesson in primary school? if not, you can read
here)...
the ambience is elegant, as you would expect for a restaurant in a 5-star hotel... the variety is good... they have chinese, western, indian, indonesian, japanese and because it was Thai food promotion period, they also have thai food... I am not very sure if they normally have thai food outside promotion period...
my diet program was the last thing on my mind when i saw the lines of food they serve haha... i managed to taste a spoonful of most of them... overall they are good, but i particularly like their
hainanese chicken rice, ox tail soup, and
pad thai... the pad thai taste so authentic... yummm...
price? they charged IDR 227.5k/person (inclusive of 10% tax and 10% service charge)...
they are also open for large number of bookings, i saw at least 2 birthday celebrations and one engagement party on the same night... i personally think it's a really good place for celebration but am not very sure about engagement party... i guess if they are big enough to book the whole restaurant or small enough to fit in one of the private rooms, that's ok... but having other restaurant visitors in your engagement party, you definitely won't have the privacy... but, the sitting-down dinner concept is definitely an excellent idea... so people can relax and enjoy...
By: syulie | Monday, April 16, 2007 at 11:52 am
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lovehkfilm.com
did any of you recognise this scene? one of popular hongkong movie in late eighties...
surfing channel this morning, suddenly i found my classic movie on
Lativi... reminds me so much of my childhood...
pity, they have to dub it, sounds so weird... but it still entertains me somehow...
By: syulie | Thursday, April 12, 2007 at 1:22 pm
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when we celebrate Easter,
we're celebrating
the miracles...
the gift...
the promise...
of an ever-loving God
wishing you a blessed Easter
thanks to...
words from Hallmark
photo from Flickr by Christiane Michaud
By: syulie | Friday, April 06, 2007 at 12:06 pm
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