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  • Sparrow Acquired by Google

    The announceement:

    We’re excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired by Google!

    We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most intuitive and pleasurable mailing experience.

    Now we’re joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision — one that we think we can better achieve with Google.

    This is a pretty big news, and honestly one that trully annoys me. I’ve been a Macbook pro user for only two months so i’ve only been using Sparrow for a month or so, but the app is good enough to make me sad over the fact that the app will not get any new features starting from now.

    I’d feel pretty bummed if i bought the full version of Sparrow ($9.99) on the App Store today just to get this news. And apparently i’m not alone.

  • Another Start.

    As you can see, this blog happens again. I don’t know the exact reason why, but it seems i can’t seem to consistently write like i did two or three years ago. I used to blog pretty much obsessively in my old domain (setengahmateng.com) but stops entirely for quite some time after i move college from Indonesia to Malaysia. It’s been more than one year and i missed having a coherent blog. Even without any visitor, it’s still fun to look at a blog and wonders how many time you have spent writing some random things that surprisingly people took interest in.

    As you can see, this blog happens again. I don’t know the exact reason why, but it seems i can’t seem to consistently write like i did two or three years ago. I used to blog pretty much obsessively in my old domain (setengahmateng.com) but stops entirely for quite some time after i move college from Indonesia to Malaysia. It’s been more than one year and i missed having a coherent blog. Even without any visitor, it’s still fun to look at a blog and wonders how many time you have spent writing some random things that surprisingly people took interest in.

    Anyway, enough with the nostalgia, i really want to maintain this blog, now. I think i’m done messing with the layout and can start writing and posting without being too embarassed at the formatting. Also, to avoid losing all my posts (and pretty much the entire blog) like i did with my old domain, i have set up this blog to sync with dropbox. I also want to experiment with Markdown on this blog since i think i have lost the ability to focus writing in WordPress internal posting system. I don’t know. Let’s just see what happens.

    In another instance where i try to create a difference from my old habits, i will try to write more using english than Indonesian in this new blog. But i’ll still ocassionally post in Indonesian. To avoid confusion, i divide categories of this blog to Indonesian and English, so people who hates looking at gibberish things can hide all that scary “other planet language” posts and just look at the beauty that is english language. Another chance to sharpen my writings in english, i think. Anyway, enjoy.

    P.S: i can feel how rusty i am at this writing thing after writing this post.