Darren Rowse wrote some points to handle criticism for blogger, while I think it is very helpful for many cases. Noted here for me myself and also some of friends who like to discuss about critics. Its points:

1. Embrace criticism – "Not everyone will agree with you all of the time, but negative feedback is a sign that you’re making people think".
2. Consider the criticism – "Some criticisms are better than others".
3. Making use of criticism – "Take the emotion out of the criticism".
4. Take it on board – "Now’s the time to take the criticism on board—but not emotionally so much as practically".

Clear, Netty is Easier than MINA

Note on TCP Server framework: first we examined Apache MINA, then Netty is found easier.

perihal:

"We found everything easier in Netty. Period. While we were trying to reimplement the same functionality we already had on MINA, we did so from scratch. By following the excellent documentation and examples we ended up with more functionality in much, much less code."
- java - Netty vs Apache MINA - Stack Overflow (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

Taken from Disabled Account FAQ:

My account was disabled and my appeal was denied. Is there any way I can rejoin the program? Can I open a new account?

We understand your concern about the actions taken against your account. Please know that our actions are the result of careful investigation by our team of dedicated specialists, taking into account the interests of our advertisers, publishers, and users. Though you may be disappointed with our decision, we are unable to reinstate your account.

Please also note that publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed any further participation in AdSense. For this reason, these publishers may not open new accounts.

Lastly, please bear in mind that Google does reserve the right to disable an account for any reason, including invalid click activity from any source.

It is clear that I will not be able to rejoin AdSense program. After some weeks never opening my AdSense account, I found Google had disabled it and I never knew what really happened. My appeal was also rejected.

So, good bye for AdSense.

Symbol of Capitalism?

From Jakarta to Toronto, big brands like McDonalds, Starbucks, becomes "victims" of people demonstrations and riots. In anger, those brands are symbols opponents hate, fight, then destruct.

Not an exception during G8 and G20 Summits in Ontario, Canada.

in reference to:

"Opponents to the G20 demonstrated during 4 days, the larger demonstration taking place on Saturday 26. A group of 200 to 300 "black blocks" split from the peaceful march and went in rampage throughout the city center for a couple of hours, smashing windows of banks and symbolic stores (McDonald, Starbuck, etc.) and burning down a couple of police cars."
- G20 in Toronto - a set on Flickr (view on Google Sidewiki)

Mr. Hawk explains his math regarding his goal to publish 1,000,000 photos before he dies. A great ambition, and also nice means photo session "all the time."

I myself was inspired by the intention to capture more, more, and more things around, either as raw source or somewhat "historical stuffs" in the future. Surely, a million is very very big number, but ten thousands photo for starting really keeps my spirit up to bring camera anywhere and do exercise anytime.

Well done!

in reference to:

"The math is working ok. I have 40,000 online and am uploading about 44 a day. At this rate I will have 1,000,000 in 59.7 years or when I'm 102. That obviously won't work. Although you never know just how long you might live. But. I've got abou 20,000 photos in a reserve right now that are processed and could be uploaded. My goal is to increase this reserve account over the course of the next 20 years and also to gradually increase the number of uploads per day over time."
- Thomas Hawk on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (view on Google Sidewiki)

Original Kids' Stories -- Free and Share!

Seen through Eric Setiawan's Buzz today, Smories.com is a nice site for kids to share free original stories. They tell there are 50 stories added every month. The initiative is for kids and read by kids also. The kids world, in short.

I have tried to access one story, it consisted the story itself and also a video. Unfortunately, the video was failed to play. I am not sure if it is about wrong URL or my connection.

Apart from that, I love much the front page of their web. Simple by very short introduction, followed by a full page of kids' face thumbnails. All of them -- you guessed -- are the story tellers themselves.

Want to contribute? Submit yours! -- they invite. How about the language? Seems for today it starts on English.

No serious problem, it is very possible for non-English speakers: it is time to learn English for their kids.

perihal: Smories - new stories for children, read by children (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

"Citizen Journalism" Workshop on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

"Citizen Journalism" Workshop on Flickr is blogged, narrated with information about Common Room's initiative to spread journalism to public.

That's citizen journalism.