when you put all of Avatar’s US and international earnings in its first three weeks, you get 1.02 billion dollars.

Excerpt from Mashable.

Great pictures and superb special effects but nothing new in the story. It doesn’t even have strong plot and story. Still, I like the movie.

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Area komersial, ruang tunggu yang luas dan terbuka, free wifi. Ditambah jendela sky-view di sepanjang ruang tunggu dan terminal sehingga memungkinkan terminal disinari cahaya matahari alami.

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Seriously, of all nearly 3 hours movie scene, do you see any chance to go to bathroom without having a “did I miss something” feeling?

I saw many people need to rush to go to bathroom when they watched Avatar and most of them lost significant parts of scnenes.

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Indonesia, Asia’s largest coal exporter, produced 254 million tons of coal in 2009, a 5.8 percent increase from 2008 and well ahead of the government’s 230 million ton target, according to figures released by the Energy Ministry on Thursday.

Excerpt from The Jakarta Globe.

We will definitely see another increase for Y10, not just to secure domestic demands with the completion of several energy crash program project but to aim spot market which is likely to be huge because every major coal mining company eyes on the coal price increase on Y10.

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Situs mikroblogging Twitter melarang penggunaan ratusan kata sebagai password di layanannya karena dinilai terlalu mudah ditebak. Total ada 370 kata yang dilarang dan diberlakukan saat pendaftaran pengguna baru.

Excerpt from Kompas.com.

Saya jadi ingat dulu pernah mengoleksi ribuan kata untuk digunakan sebagai rujukan dalam memecahkan password dengan metode brute force.

Anyway, apakah password Anda saat ini termasuk dalam daftar terlarang?

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Antrean sepanjang lebih dari 500 meter terjadi di halte busway Dukuh Atas II, Jakarta Pusat, Jumat. Mayoritas warga yang mengantre adalah pengguna jalur khusus Transjakarta menuju ke Kebun Binatang Ragunan, Jakarta Selatan.

Excerpt from Kompas.com.

Saya tahu bahwa pasti terjadi peningkatan jumlah pengguna dalam waktu yang bersamaan, namun apa yang Anda lakukan untuk mengatasi ini? Kompas juga tidak jeli dalam menyampaikan berita. Ia hanya menyampaikan berita “masalah” tanpa menyampaikan hal-hal yang sudah/akan dilakukan pihak penyedia jasa.

Ugh. Bangsa ini semakin lama semakin fokus pada masalah, bukan solusi.

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Tahun 2009 bukan tahun mudah dan alhamdulillah perekonomian bisa kita jaga sehingga dampak buruk krisis global bisa kita minimalkan

Sri Mulyani, excerpt from Kompas.com.

Tahun 2010 juga tidak akan menjadi tahun yang mudah bagi Sri Mulyani. Perkiraan peningkatan harga minyak mentah dunia akan menekan anggaran, khususnya dari sisi besaran subsidi yang harus dibelanjakan. Saya pikir, beliau harus segera melakukan koordinasi dengan Departemen Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral perihal transisi penggunaan bahan bakar minyak menjadi gas dan batubara. Peningkatan pendapatan pajak juga perlu menjadi salah satu fokus perhatian sebagai alternatif sumber dana.

Saya bukan ahli keuangan ataupun ahli ekonomi. Beliau jelas punya staff yang lebih mumpuni, namun hal paling sederhana justru adalah hal yang sering dilupakan.

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Of course, Google was perfectly capable of showing the best realtime results. The problem is that the best results were hidden on Google’s realtime updates page (click “Show options” and then “Updates” on any search), and Bing’s Twitter search page, which combines Tweets with headlines.

Excerpt from TechCrunch.

I have to admit that at some point Bing really beats Google. I wonder whether Google’s lack of focus within this past year will have an effect on its position as search engine leader.

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Because you have to exercise extra efforts in order to understand how it works and another extra-extra efforts to migrate your contacts to work in collaboration. That’s just illogical.

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Press and hold Q on QWERTY BlackBerry to change to vibrate profile. Press and hold Q again to switch back to normal profile.

I love my BlackBerry even more. I usually use “f” shortcut key and use the trackball to choose the profile. This extra convenient key somehow reminds me to my old Treo. It gives you the ability to switch your profile between normal – vibrate easily.

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PLN is seeking to slash the cost of the subsidy on electricity by Rp 3 trillion to 5 trillion annually through its program to use more gas and coal, rather than oil, at its power plants.

Excerpt from The Jakarta Post.

Coal reserves is abundant in Indonesia but nevertheless Govt should start to think about developing national blending facility to increase saleable reserves.

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Brasil mengekspor sekian ratus ribu ton kedelai ke Amerika setiap tahunnya, sedangkan kita mengimpor lebih separuh jumlah itu, dari Amerika pula. Maka presidenku datang ke Rio De Janeiro ingin membeli langsung kedelai dari sumbernya tanpa makelar Amerika.

Excerpt from Kompas.com.

Saya setiap saat belajar bahwa controversial pada dasarnya adalah ketidakmampuan kita untuk masuk dalam pola pikir seseorang. Mungkin ini yang berada di benak kami saat memandang Gus Dur. Bahwa bisa saja apa yang ada di dalam kepalanya adalah berjuta impian tentang Indonesia yang lebih baik yang sulit untuk diselami.

Selamat Jalan Gus Dur. You’re one of a kind.

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BlackBerry is king… in Indonesia, anyway. It’s hard to go anywhere in Jakarta, the nation’s busy capital, without seeing someone using one of these ubiquitous smart phones.

Excerpt from CNN.com.

IMHO, it won’t last long. Most of new BlackBerry users in Indonesia, based on my experience, are actually looking for cheap access to social networking site such as facebook and twitter. If they have alternatives of cheap mobile phone that enable them to access facebook and twitter with a relatively cheap internet access cost then BlackBerry will have to give away its crown.

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The implementation regulations, covering mining areas, coal and mineral businesses, mining supervision, reclamation and postmining issues, are expected to provide legal certainty and boost investors’ confidence in developing the country’s mining and geothermal reserves,

Excerpt from The Jakarta Post.

Though Y09 investment realization is 20% behind the schedule, government eyes an increasing in mining investment. However, I think that most of Y10 investment will be from current mining company that eyes production increase in Y10.

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Biaya pembangkitan listrik dari batu bara yang sebelumnya termasuk ekonomis kini dicemaskan tak lagi efisien. Harga batu bara yang melonjak membuat biaya pembangkitan listrik tak berbeda bila menggunakan daya dari PLN.

Excerpt from Kompas.com.

Saya pikir Plant Manager Energy and Power Division PT Panasia Indosyntec, Jozef Sandjaja, melupakan satu hal paling penting bahwa fluktuasi harga batubara sangat dipengaruhi oleh fluktuasi harga minyak mentah dunia. Lag indicator and lead indicator. Artinya ia melupakan faktor penting bahwa harga bahan bakar minyak juga melambung naik yang mengakibatkan biaya bahan bakar meningkat tajam. Oleh karenanya, secara logika, biaya bahan bakar PLTU dengan menggunakan batubara akan lebih murah dibandingkan biaya bahan bakar PLTD.

Bandingkanlah apel dengan apel pada saat yang sama. Bandingkan jengkol dengan jengkol pada waktu yang sama.

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Windy, 8, Rizky, 4, Lina, 3 and Siti, 5 months, were left by their parents at a rented house in Depok, West Java, for a week without any food, prompting their neighbors to take care of them

Excerpt from The Jakarta Post.

They are, no doubt, crazy parents that I’ve ever read. This is not an accident where you forget to take your kid(s) and left them home alone, though I have to say that any parent doing this is simply a stupid one. They left them intentionally. The police should do something about it.

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pemadaman justru terjadi di wilayah yang memiliki kekayaan bahan bakar pembangkit yakni gas dan batubara yang melimpah seperti Riau, Kalimantan Timur, dan Sumatera Selatan.

Excerpt from Kompas.com.

Radikal mungkin hanya pilihan kata. Namun saya sepakat bahwa penyelesaian masalah krisis energi perlu diawali dengan pembongkaran paradigma lama. Salah satunya adalah subsidi berlebihan yang terkadang justru berbalik menggerogoti kemampuan negara.

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Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner is made of composite materials and it’s super fuel efficient, but unless you own an airline, the only thing you care about is how comfortable it is. Boeing knows this, and has striven to give passengers an experience unlike any other airplane

Excerpt from Wired.

Is it really a plane? Nice to have one of those for domestic flight.

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Kabar infotainmen sering tidak berimbang dan melebih-lebihkan fakta, sehingga narasumbernya dirugikan

Excerpt from Kompas.com.

Perlu ditambahkan dengan “Membuat masyarakat menjadi jengah dengan masalah orang lain yang sebetulnya bukan hak mereka”. Inilah yang membuat saya berhenti menyaksikan program bodoh itu bertahun-tahun yang lalu.

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The company’s new Xbox 360 interface, codenamed Project Natal, uses a depth sensor, directional microphones, and a lo-res camera to read your gestures — grip an imaginary steering wheel, for instance, to control a car onscreen. The technology is bound to be a game-changer, so we asked three industry visionaries what kinds of games they’d design for it.

Excerpt from Wired.

Console has rapidly evolved in this pas century. I remember what my first console was. It was a nintendo something. I spent hours in front of telly to play Contra. So, in this case, I’m really eager to learn how it would work to use my own body as a joystick to play the character inside the game. In other words, I’m the character.

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