Celebrity Islamists, including mother daughter team Emilia Contessa and Denada Tambunan, line up for the Development Party in 2009. Celebrity Candidates - PPP The United Development Party, Partai Persatuan Pembangunan (PPP), is fielding at least 10 candidates in the 2009 general elections who can be...

Gasp! Yesterday I forgot an anniversary with my wife. Not the wedding anniversary, but the engagement anniversary. You see, my wife and I celebrate all these anniversaries: wedding, engagement, first meeting, first e-mail, etc. :-)  Somehow I forgot about the date yesterday. I usually use the r...

The Front Pembela Islam are back in action, raiding places and publicly shaming sinners. Although in early June some FPI branches in East Java were, it seemed at the time (FPI, Komando Laskar Islam & Munarman), forced to close, the Lamongan branch of the Front Pembela Islam/Islam Defenders Fron...

Good morning, Sammy and fellow PalmAddicts writers and readers. After the last hard reset, somehow things do not go as well as I expected. So yesterday I spent some time doing another hard reset on my O2 Xda IIi PDA Phone and re-installing the software (I know, I know, I should get a backup or a clo...

Every once in a while we are treated with unique gadget like this and this, or with skin modification like this (First things first, credits to Endgadget for the pictures). Also the other day (I do not remember where, it could be in Engadget or Boy Genius Report, or Gizmodo) there was this device sh...

I do not have a PalmOS device, so when I read about many wonderful software and games for PalmOS on PalmAddicts, I feel rather envious and slightly left-out. Buying a PalmOS device for now is not an option, however, because currently I am in a rather troublesome financial situation, and would like t...

Ever since I bought my O2 Xda IIi PDA Phone two years ago, I have never done any hard reset. I now seriously consider doing it, seeing that the device gets more and more unresponsive these days. I wonder if there is a standard period of time before hard reset is needed. On desktop and laptop, back w...

Done in 50 Seconds is a fun puzzle game from AIM Productions (available in Pocket PC and Smartphone versions). I do not own the game, but I used to play it on my colleague's PDA. If I am allowed to make a guess, I think it probably takes inspiration from Gone in Sixty Seconds movie. That is just my ...

Another PopCap game that gets ported into Pocket PC is Zuma. It retains the atmosphere and the gameplay of the original. The atmosphere theme is of ancient Aztec. You get to play the stone frog idol that shoots ball. The goal is to clear the chain of colorful balls before it reaches the golden skull...

Timdog enthuses over the brothel district of “Dolly” in Surabaya. Hello Dolly! - In Praise of Lokalisasi On the high ground among the graveyards and working class kampungs above the Banyu Urip canal is Surabaya’s most notorious corner. Mention the East Java capital to people anywhe...