2007 Nobel in Economics: Designing Better Markets
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.
Many things perform effectively but not efficiently. To be efficient means to produce a desired effect with as little waste as possible.
How can markets be designed to make them more efficient? This is a question that the three winners of this year’s […]

Raindrops…
It’s like a smile
It’s blue
It’s ambiguous
Maybe that’s why people love raindrops
Raindrops…
It represents many feels
Just like a smile that worrg thousand words
or a “blue” that means everything
Ones who are happy call it “romantic”
Ones who are sad call it “teardrops from the sky”

Yesterday, the 1st contest of COCI 2007/2008 was held. It was from 9 to 12PM WIB (GMT+7). There were 6 tasks for contestants to solve in 3 hours. The environment system used in this contest is the same as the IOI 2007 system.
You can click here to open the main gate of COCI 2007/2008.
You can […]

Angkot = Angkutan Kota = City Transportation (Eng.)
This is from my experience, using Indonesian angkot for many years…
Actually, angkot drivers are good at algorithms, you can see it everytime in their behaviour.
On the road, when it’s getting crowded, they usually use “greedy algorithm” to make their car go forward, tough maybe finally that way will […]

Full-moon, some romantic-light, and rhythm of jazz. What else you can hope for weekend? It’s almost perfect…
Yeah it was the Cibunut Jazz Night, I was there with my friends, Kevin Tanadi and Nessia Fausta, sadly I had to leave before the event ended.

Such a great class. There were Prof. Gede Rake and Prof. Syamsul who gave a great speech about to be a scientist.
“To be a scientist is about contributing something to society”
“Love what you do and do what you love”
“To be a good scientist, you have to do it with passion. It’s not only about profession”
“More […]

I have test my SPEEDY internet connection using SpeedTest.Net, I’m not really sure weather it’s really correct or not, but that’s the result shows that my download speed is at 310 Kbps and upload at 26 Kbps It’s fast enough I think for Indonesian connection. The only thing you may confuse about internet connection is […]

Hancur hatiku mengenang dikau
Menjadi keping-keping setelah kau pergi
Tinggalkan kasih sayang
Yang pernah singgah antara kita
Masihkah ada sayang itu
Memang salahku, yang tak pernah bisa
Meninggalkan dirinya ‘tuk bersama kamu
Walau ‘tuk trus bersama
Kan ada hati yang ‘kan terluka
Dan ku tahu kau tak mau
Sekali lagi maafkanlah
Karena ku cinta kau dan dia
Maafkanlah ku tak bisa […]

(taken from http://www.dearcupid.org/)
There are so many views on them. Some people think they can’t work, that the relationships aren’t “real” because you don’t see your boyfriend or girlfriend everyday, but that’s their opinion. They haven’t been in one most likely, so who’s really to judge? People that have been in them. And I know they’ll […]

Hi, I’ve taken this test, just wondering my nerdity. Hmm, and here is the result :

If I ask you then what will you say? Am I a nerd?