RTFM? Yeah, RTFM. Before you asked any moronic question to technical support, before you accidentally use the delete button instead of submit button, and before you wonder why the screen goes blue and give a biiiiip sound, just Read The Fancy Manual.

Yeah, sometimes it’s a boring job and strenuous exercises for your eyes, but it’s an important one. Why? Because technical support will have that oh-you-so-stupid look in their face or that i-have-to-hear-this-complain-again voice when you call. Here’s some tips to conquer your manual books for everything.

1. If you’re a beginner, find a beginner or even a dummies version.
2. Hands on. You cannot read your manual like you read your novel. Read the lines carefully and do every steps.
3. Repeat your steps so you cannot miss one step and remember the whole thing.
4. Search the internet for help or maybe the ebook version of the manual. Ebook is easier to keep.
5. Mark the important steps and if the manual is in form of description or narration, do bullet and numbering version of that manual.

One benefit when you read your manual is you can be your own technical support and even everyone around you. So, start to RTFM.

A carbon footprint is a “measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of green house gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide”. It is meant to be useful for individuals and organizations to conceptualize their personal (or organizational) impact in contributing to global warming.

How to calculate it? Here’s a calculator to help you count it. Is it going to be lower than the average? The average footprint for people in Indonesia is 1.69 tonnes.

Calculator [via Carbonfootprint.com]

After Kartini’s Day, comes a day for another woman, Mother Earth. Yes, The Earth Day is here. And while all of you have definitely done your part

1. Use blackle to conduct search about your blog. While some people doubt that blackle will save energy, the black design most definitely not make your eyes tired. Blackle’s is not as broad as his whiter old brother, but still very accurate.
2. Focus on your writing. Don’t let TV, radio, or any other electric appliances bother you. Turn them off. This way you can finish your writing quicker and started to write another post and another and another.
3. Create your draft using dark room. While you’re not always connected to the internet, you can use dark room from lifehacker. This application is very similar to notepad, only, dark. It also eliminate distraction.
4. Write green. Finally on earth day, write positive post about mother earth. Because, until we could start to colonize another planet, this is the only place we could live in.

Happy Earth Day!

I assume most blog reader already know about twitter, a microblog that user can create updates of question “what are you doing?” It serves many other purposes, including a food diary. TweetWhatYouEat.com provide an easy setup and easy views on what you already eat.

1. Login to twitter and type: follow twye on updates
2. After that, you’ve type d twye food:calories, example d twye burger:350.
3. See the result on here. Just put your twitter username and find your diary.
4. Make your food diary.
5. Keep updating your food diary, everyday.

TweetWhatYouEat

My sister always complaining when my mother told her that a nice girl should wake up early in the morning and does not lay in the bed until ten o’clock. My sister is definitely not a few chosen people who can wake up at four o’clock and accomplished more than the rest of us who wake up hours later. What is their secret?

We can say we’re going to live with purpose, but unless we plan, we can tell ourselves that we’ll start living with purpose next week, or the week after that. Planning is one of the fundamental ways to maximize your mind to achieve your goals, and as such it plays a critical role in allowing us to have an awesome day, everyday.

Of course, wake up like any other must be practise and practise until it become a habit.

Burst Out Every Morning [DumbLittleMAn]

You think you know her, but you have no idea. Kartini was born into an aristocratic Javanese family in a time when Java was still part of the Dutch colony, the Dutch East Indies. Kartini’s father, Raden Mas Sosroningrat, became Regency Chief of Jepara, and her mother was Raden Mas’ first wife, but not the most important one. At this time, polygamy was a common practice among the nobility.

Kartini’s family allowed her to attend school until she was 12 years old. Here, among other subjects, she learnt to speak fluent Dutch, an unusual accomplishment for Javanese women at the time^[2]. After she turned 12 she was ’secluded’ at home, a common practice among Javanese nobility, to prepare young girls for their marriage. During seclusion girls were was not allowed to leave their parents’ house until they were married, at which point authority over them was transferred to their husbands. Kartini’s father was more lenient than some during his daughter’s seclusion, giving her such privileges as embroidery lessons and occasional appearances in public for special events.

Kartini’s parents arranged her marriage to Raden Adipati Joyodiningrat, the Regency Chief of Rembang, who already had three wives. She was married on the 12 November 1903. This was against Kartini’s wishes, but she acquiesced to appease her ailing father. Her husband understood Kartini’s aims and allowed her to establish a school for women in the east porch of the Rembang Regency Office complex. Kartini’s only son was born on September 13, 1904. A few days later on September 17, 1904, Kartini died at the age of 25. She was buried in Bulu Village, Rembang.

But, of course, almost 104 years later, her spirit still here among Indonesian women, to put trust in their own ability to succeed.

English [Wikipedia]

Indonesia [Wikipedia]

This is my 30th post since i’ve started this blog on april fools day. I’ve written posts in many different categories. On my first post, I’ve written about how to control your piracy, so you’re not drowned in clutter. I also discuss how to unclutter your free stuff to get more free space and how to unclutter in five minutes.

When depkominfo messed with our mind, I write about what to do with the final solution, and my first webcam comic about depkominfo. I also write an article about how to stay awake for two more hours. Just in case you hear SBY making speech. You really don’t want to make your president angry to you.

If you’ve read that superheroes refuse to help Indonesia, than we’ll have to depend on our local superheroes. There are also some cool links that i found browsing, like the story of stuff, password meter, and Indonesian Dictionary ( KBBI Daring). There’s also some application like YMTiny, and Keepass.

I’ve sorta created two words in my blog (or not) . The first one called stealr, and the second one is dumbox. Hopefully all these are the step in the right direction. Wish me luck for times to come.

Dumbox is my portmanteau version of television. It composed originally from two words, dumb and box. The meaning is not a box that’s dumb, but a box that will make you dumb. No, it probably not going to produce enough waves that will actively damages your brain, but it come close to paralyze your brain. You must lessen your time and your kids’ time using these dumbox. Here’s some of the reason.

1. In my opinion, your brain is more active when you watch a blank wall than a television. Why, because your brain really works best when nothing happened around you. So, if you watched television five hours a day, your brain become less active than a prisoner that staring at four blank wall in the cell.
2. There’s dumbox and there’s smart box. Yes, there’s some good tv shows out there that deserve a mentions. But the rest is a complete junk. Trust me. Choose wisely your selections.
3. Your activity can vary immediately if you have enough will to touch the remote control and turn off the dumbox. You can read a book, do sports, write blog, talk to your family and join language class. All is more important than wanting to know what happened to that poor girl who being abused by her mother-in-law but in fact she’s a long lost daughter of a wealthy businessman.
4. Your opinion always based on information you watch on television and you become too lazy to find out more. It’s like a tiger who get meat everyday in the zoo and when he’s released to the jungle, he dies of hunger. You judged people, places and situations easily without enough information.
5. Ads on the dumbox will make you want things that you never really needed. You got this perfection imaging flashed every ten second and of course stuff that will make you reached that image.
6. You become agitated when your kids exposed by these too much violence on dumbox and blame the dumbox station and not your kids and yourself. All you need is really a windows to throw your television outside and interact more with your kids. Do not writing letter to newspaper telling everybody that you’re not smart enough to throw the television and attack the media instead.

Really, we should know better than staring helplessly to the dumbox. Especially with current indonesian show like the S word.

Picture taken from here