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Bin Laden sons protest to US over 'arbitrary killing'

Rabu, 11 Mei 2011

The sons of Osama Bin Laden have criticised the US authorities for carrying out his "arbitrary killing".

A statement given to the New York Times newspaper said the family wanted to know why the al-Qaeda leader had not been captured alive.

Relatives who survived the 2 May raid in Pakistan should be freed, it said.

Another statement appeared on a jihadist website saying the burial of Bin Laden at sea "demeans and humiliates his family".

Osama Bin Laden was shot dead by US special forces during a raid on his home in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad.

The statement printed by the New York Times was attributed to Bin Laden's fourth son, Omar Bin Laden, who has repeatedly distanced himself from his father's ideology.

The statement said that in absence of a body or photographic evidence, the family were not convinced he was dead.

But if he was dead, it said, they were questioning "why an unarmed man was not arrested and tried in a court of law so that truth is revealed to the people of the world".
Humiliation

They argue Bin Laden's killing had broken international law and that figures such as former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic had been given the chance to stand trial.

"We maintain that arbitrary killing is not a solution to political problems and crime's adjudication as justice must be seen to be done."

The family said they were demanding a enquiry into why Bin Laden was "summarily executed without a court of law" and demanded the release of his three wives and several children, who are believed to be in Pakistani custody.

The statement also said the US decision to bury Bin Laden's corpse at sea had deprived the family of performing religious rites.

A slightly different version of the report was published on a jihadist websites, said the SITE Intelligence Group.

It said US President Barack Obama was "legally responsible" for clarifying "the fate of our father" and that the sea burial "demeans and humiliates his family and his supporters".

US President Barack Obama has urged Pakistan to investigate how the al-Qaeda leader could live in the garrison city of Abbottabad undetected and to find out if any officials knew of his whereabouts.

Pakistan's PM Yousuf Raza Gilani has insisted that allegations of Pakistani complicity and incompetence are "absurd".

Les forces pro-Ouattara contrôlent le dernier bastion pro-Gbagbo d'Abidjan

Selasa, 10 Mei 2011

AFP - Le quartier de Yopougon, dans l'ouest d'Abidjan, dernier bastion des miliciens fidèles au président déchu Laurent Gbagbo, se trouve désormais entièrement sous le contrôle des forces du nouveau chef d'Etat Alassane Ouattara, ont annoncé mercredi soir les autorités ivoiriennes.

"C'est le seul secteur qui restait (à conquérir, ndlr) et toute la zone est désormais définitivement occupée par nous", a déclaré sur la télévision ivoirienne TCI le commandant Chérif Ousmane, chargé des opérations au sein des Forces républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire (FRCI).

Yopougon était le dernier quartier qui échappait au contrôle des forces du nouveau pouvoir. Des miliciens fidèles à Laurent Gbagbo en avaient fait leur bastion et se battaient encore dans la matinée dans le secteur de la base navale, dans le sud-est du quartier, au bord de la lagune.

Guillaume Soro sur place

Le Premier ministre et ministre de la Défense, Guillaume Soro, s'est rendu sur les lieux dans l'après-midi.

"J'ai vu les rues jonchées de cadavres. Au QG des miliciens, on a vu un cimetière improvisé. J'imagine toutes les exactions qui ont eu cours. Je suis encore sous le choc de tous ces morts, tous ces cadavres", a-t-il déclaré sur la TCI.

"Les miliciens exécutaient la population civile, si vous aviez un nom qui n'était pas correct. Je trouve cela inacceptable", a-t-il affirmé.

"Tout Yopougon, tout Abidjan doit être sécurisé. Je compte sur vous", a lancé Guillaume Soro à ses troupes.

Des journalistes de l'AFP accompagnant une équipe de la Croix-Rouge ivoirienne ont constaté mercredi que des dizaines de cadavres, criblés de balles ou calcinés et réduits à l'état de squelettes, jonchaient les rues de plusieurs zones de cet immense quartier populaire de plus d'un million d'habitants.

Cadavres et fosses communes

Des fosses communes contenaient les corps de résidents tués par des miliciens, selon des témoignages d'habitants recueillis par l'AFP. Des corps à demi-nus jonchaient le sol: des miliciens pour certains habitants, des jeunes du quartier abattus par les FRCI selon d'autres.

En deux jours, les corps de plus de 60 personnes tués dans les récentes violences ont ainsi été récupérés par cette équipe de la Croix-Rouge.

Le quartier était mercredi méconnaissable: les échoppes qui n'ont pas été pillées et brûlées gardent leur rideau de fer baissé, les ordures ne sont plus ramassées depuis longtemps. Yopougon n'a plus rien à voir avec Abidjan, où la vie est redevenue normale et qui renoue même avec les embouteillages matinaux.

"Les mercenaires et miliciens pro-Gbagbo ont été mis hors d'état de nuire (...). Yopougon vient d'être libéré", a déclaré sur la TCI le capitaine Léon Kouakou Alla, porte-parole du ministère de la Défense, qualifiant le quartier "de véritable forteresse sur laquelle comptaient désespérément les caciques du camp Gbagbo".

Il a aussi mis en garde contre des "criminels et bandits de grand chemin", armés et en uniformes, qui prétendent appartenir aux FRCI, assurant que des dispositions étaient prises pour les "neutraliser".

Le président Ouattara, au pouvoir depuis l'arrestation le 11 avril de M. Gbagbo, avait menacé le 22 avril de "désarmer par la force" les derniers groupes armés encore actifs, s'ils ne déposaient pas "rapidement" les armes.

Trois experts internationaux indépendants, chargés par l'ONU d'enquêter sur les violations graves de droits de l'Homme qui auraient été commises en Côte d'Ivoire depuis l'élection présidentielle du 28 novembre, sont arrivés mercredi à Abidjan et resteront dans le pays jusqu'à la fin mai.

68 corps découverts dans le quartier de Yopougon, à Abidjan

AFP - Soixante-huit corps ont été découverts vendredi dans dix tombes par une équipe du Haut commissariat des Nations unies aux droits de l'homme dans le quartier de Yopougon à Abidjan, a annoncé lundi le porte-parole adjoint de l'ONU Farhan Haq.

Deux fosses communes en particulier renfermaient 31 et 21 corps respectivement dans ce quartier qui était le dernier bastion des miliciens fidèles à l'ex-président Laurent Gbagbo.

L'équipe de l'ONU interroge les témoins et les familles pour trouver ce qui s'est passé mais "on pense que les tueries ont été commises le 12 avril par des milices pro-Gbagbo", toutes les victimes étant des hommes, a-t-il ajouté.

La mission de l'ONU en Côte d'Ivoire a ajouté qu'il existait des informations sur d'autres tombes proches et elle continue d'enquêter, a ajouté le porte-parole.

Yopougon, qui constituait le dernier bastion des miliciens fidèles à l'ex-président Laurent Gbagbo, a été déclaré sécurisé mais reste dévasté par des semaines de violences. Des dizaines de corps criblés de balles ou des squelettes calcinés jonchaient en milieu de semaine dernière les rues de cet immense quartier populaire, où vivent plus d'un million de personnes.

Près de 3.000 personnes ont été tuées en Côte d'Ivoire au cours des violences liées à la contestation du scrutin présidentiel du 28 novembre 2010, selon les autorités.

Netflix CEO: We don't want World War III with cable

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is pleased with his company's massive growth, but he fears that getting too large will start "an Armageddon" with cable networks.

Hastings talked about Netflix's "niche" philosophy -- a Goldilocks-esque business plan of staying "not too big, not too small" -- in a panel discussion Tuesday at the Wired Business Conference in New York City.

Panel moderator Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired magazine, asked Hastings who is "most threatened" by Netflix as it expands its streaming video content.

"We've consistently said getting into current season [TV] or newer movies would not be profitable for us," Hastings said. "It would be an Armageddon. It would be World War III, and we likely wouldn't survive that battle."

Anderson then read a quote from a Comcast exec who said that Netflix doesn't compete with TV, it competes with reruns.

Hastings acknowledged that his company doesn't expect to compete on sports and breaking news, which are suited to live broadcast. "[Netflix is] not every single thing all of you folks want to watch, but it's $8 a month," he said. "It's choosier content."

Still, it's clear that one of Netflix's top priorities is upgrading the quality and depth of the content it has available for instant streaming. On top of licensing its first original series -- "House of Cards," starring Kevin Spacey and due out in late 2012 -- Netflix has recently snapped up some choice reruns, including "Mad Men" and the first season of "Glee."

"You have to make a deal with the content owner," Hastings said. "Luckily we're bigger now, so we can write the check and get the content flowing."

That's a costly and time-consuming process, but it's been in the game plan all along. Netflix (NFLX) attracted most of its giant subscriber base -- which now tops 22 million in the U.S. -- through its DVDs-by-mail rental service. But streaming has been the real goal ever since the company's inception in 1997, according to Hastings.

"We had set up the whole business essentially for streaming, but the network wasn't big enough years ago," he said. "But in 2005 we clicked on YouTube and watched cats on skateboards -- and we thought, it's here! Since then, we've had so much fun finally delivering on our name: Net. Flix."

Google doesn't get gadgets

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Google is a master of Web software. When it comes to devices, though, the master struggles.

Google TV received such lukewarm reviews that the company decided to delay the release of future products using the software until it could make significant improvements. Smartphones have been an incredible success in terms of sales, but consumers, manufacturers and developers have expressed frustration with the Android operating system. It's still early for tablets, but Google's highly anticipated Honeycomb -- released two months ago -- has been buggy and sales are disappointing.

The company's mixed success in the gadget world will be a hot discussion topic at Google's annual I/O developer conference, which begins Tuesday in San Francisco. There, Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) is expected to release another herd of devices into the wild: Analysts widely believe Google will launch its Chrome operating system for desktop computers.

Why is Google's track record amazing on Web apps and so spotty on consumer devices?

There are a few culprits. One is middlemen. When Google invents Web products, it delivers them straight to consumers. But when Google designs for gadgets, it needs manufacturers to partner up and make them. That's a complicated relationship that Google is still learning how to navigate.

"Google is trying to drive the pace of innovation, but it gives the handset manufacturers a little too much control," said Todd Christy, president of application development platform Pyxis Mobile. "That presents challenges to the industry, and the pain is borne by the consumer. Google needs to assert itself more."

A recent Baird Research study found that 56% of Android developers think that fragmentation among the various Android devices is a meaningful or "huge" problem. That percentage has increased over the past three months.

Another problem: Google has a habit of approaching gadgets with a software-maker's mindset. It likes to launch not-quite-ready projects and then quickly improve them on the fly.

That works just fine on the Web. No one's paying for Google Voice, Google Maps or Gmail, so Google can release those applications and tweak them without many complaints from users.

But when you're paying $600 for a Google TV, $200 for an Android phone or $800 for an Android tablet, you're going to want those things to work perfectly. That's just not how Google operates.

"Google obviously takes an experimental approach with many of its initiatives, externalizing many processes that traditionally are kept behind closed doors," said Al Hilwa, analyst at IDC. "That can put their partners and customers through frustrating experiences at times."

Google's open approach lets device makers tinker with and personalize the Google experience on their gadgets. But its near-constant stream of major updates forces manufacturers to spend time configuring the new updates for each device and all of its unique specifications.

That doesn't happen quickly. Just 4% of Android smartphone users are running the latest version, "Gingerbread," which was released in December. The vast majority are still running Froyo, which launched in May 2010, and a quarter of users are still on Eclair, which came out all the way back in January of last year.

That leaves app developers trying to design software that will run on many different versions of the same operating system. Their apps need to work on a wide range of devices with varying screen sizes, hardware components and functionality.

It also means that customers with Google devices are left waiting (and waiting, and waiting) for software updates.

Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500), of course, is on the other extreme. That company designs the operating system and every minute detail of the hardware it runs on through and through, creating an extremely unified experience for the iPhone and iPad. But if you want to toy with that system -- or even just design an app that Apple doesn't like -- you're out of luck.

"People want innovation and differentiation, but they also want the consistency of the Apple and Microsoft world," said Ken Dulaney, analyst at Gartner. "Unfortunately, you can't have both."
Room to grow

Google representatives declined to comment on the company's approach to gadget development, pointing instead to a recent blog post by Android chief Andy Rubin.

Google tries to fight fragmentation by requiring those that market "Android-compatible" devices to meet some basic consistency requirements, he wrote. Rubin also defended Google's software release schedule: "We continue to be an open source platform and will continue releasing source code when it is ready."

Clearly, Google has done plenty of things right. Android is the top-selling smartphone operating system in the world. Honeycomb wasn't an instant tablet success, but it also took Android years to become a legitimate smartphone contender.

But projects like Google TV show that Google's ambition stretches far beyond computers and phones. (We're not even going to get into the robot cars.) At last year's I/O, then-CEO Eric Schmidt assembled a glittering who's who list of CEOs from gadget power players -- Sony (SNE), Logitech (LOGI), Intel (INTC, Fortune 500), Best Buy (BBY, Fortune 500) and Dish Network (DISH, Fortune 500), among others -- on stage join him in launching Google TV.

To make alliances like those pay off, Google needs to get better at working with -- and thinking like -- the world's best gadget makers.

"It's not that Google doesn't understand electronics manufacturers specifically, it's that Google doesn't understand more traditional companies generally," said James McQuivey, analyst at Forrester Research.

Google is like a "huge, dispassionate algorithm -- they value efficiency and assume everyone else does as well," he said. "So there's generally a disconnect when Google tries to interface with other companies that have grown up with different rules than Google has internalized."

Are SSA No-Match Letters Putting American Jobs at Risk?

Sabtu, 30 April 2011

The Social Security Administration (SSA) just announced it will resume its practice of notifying employers of discrepancies in employee paperwork through “no-match letters”—a mechanism which threatens countless American jobs. Despite the Administration’s clear assertion that the letter “makes no statement” about a worker’s immigration status, employer confusion over the letters has led to erroneous firings and lost wages in the past, and threatens to be the case now. It is anticipated that over 1 million workers will be the subject of these letters.

Each year, employers file a Wage and Tax Statement (Form W-2) with SSA and the Internal Revenue Service to report how much they paid their employees and how much they deducted in taxes from employees’ wages throughout the year. SSA sends a no-match letter when the names or Social Security numbers listed on an employer’s Form W 2 do not match SSA’s records. According to SSA’s Office of the Inspector General, more than 70 percent of the 17.8 million discrepancies in SSA’s database belong to native-born U.S. citizens.

Sounds harmless, right? Wrong. While the purpose of these letters is simply to ensure that workers are getting credit for their earnings, a now-rescinded 2007 Bush administration rule turned the letter on its head. Under the rule, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could use the receipt of a no-match letter as evidence that an employer had knowledge that the employee who is the subject of the letter is not authorized to work and required employers to take certain steps to avoid liability, including terminating employees who could not fix database errors. The new rule essentially sent the message that a no-match letter would be used against the employer to prove an immigration violation.

The National Immigration Law Center and other civil rights and labor unions filed a lawsuit to stop this economically devastating rule, which was eventually blocked by the courts. In fact, in issuing a decision that blocked the rule from being implemented, the Court stated that if the rule were allowed to proceed, it would “result in irreparable harm to innocent workers and employers.” And in 2009, Secretary Napolitano rescinded the no-match rule citing the lawsuit. SSA also suspended its employer no-match program over the last three years.

So why send the letters now? Employers fearful of ICE enforcement will ignore SSA’s claims that the letters do not make an assertion about immigration status, and unnecessarily fire immigrant and US-born workers alike. The government itself estimated that if the rule were implemented at least 70,000 citizens and legal immigrants would lose their jobs because of confusion over the rule and challenges that workers would face in correcting errors. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce put this number at 165,000.

In a time of 9% unemployment it seems almost unfathomable that the Administration would re-institute a policy that will cause the loss of American jobs. It’s time to retire the ineffective Social Security Administration “no-match” letter, and focus on creating jobs.

Why Schmidt might have to sell Google stake

Selasa, 19 April 2011

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is rumored to be on the short-list for the Commerce Secretary job. But accepting that role is a multi-billion dollar decision.

To avoid conflict of interest, presidential appointees must go through a thorough vetting process by the agency the nominee is appointed to, the White House, and the Office of Government Ethics.



Conflicts could arise if any assets or securities that a nominee holds could benefit from their decision making. Those conflicts must be nullified for the appointee to be given the job.

That means if Schmidt were appointed, and his Google holdings were found to be an issue, he'd likely have to sell off his stake in the search giant.

Schmidt owns more than 9 million Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) shares in his portfolio. At current prices, that works out to nearly $5 billion.

Federal rules would require Schmidt to sell off his stake in 90 days. Market analysts said Google is such a highly traded stock that selling 9 million shares over three months would have no noticeable impact.
Should Larry Page break up Google?

But it's unlikely Schmidt would want to sell everything off right away -- especially since the stock is still trading about 29% below its all-time high.

As a result, the law allows Schmidt to put his stock into a blind trust. Portfolio managers would gradually sell the stock off and replace it with securities that don't conflict with the Commerce Department's work, such as Treasuries, or broad index funds.

Schmidt would still face a potential conflict of interest, though, since the blind trust wouldn't be all that "blind."

"Putting it in a blind trust would be hopelessly ineffective," said Alan Morrison, professor at George Washington Law School. "It's the worst kind of fig leaf, because it's not 'blind' in any sense of the word. What's Schmidt going to say? 'Do I own Google? Really?'"

The Office of Government Ethics mandates that employees of the executive branch can't own more than $15,000 of a stock or asset that would conflict with their work. Going from $5 billion to $15,000 isn't going to happen in a day.

To get around that requirement, the OGE allows people in conflict to recuse themselves from certain activities. That means even after his Google shares are put in trust, Schmidt would still have to recuse himself if a conflict arises with Google.

The good news for Schmidt is that the Department of Commerce doesn't deal all that heavily in Google's businesses.
Google profits up, but miss expectations

Schmidt would obviously never get a job at the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission or the Federal Communications Commission, which constantly examine and regulate Google's activities.

The biggest potential conflict would be the Commerce Department's "privacy bill of rights" initiative, which encourages websites to voluntarily post simple notices that clearly state what personal information will be collected and what will be done with it. But experts say that's a very weak and dubious conflict.

The upside for Schmidt is that even if he is forced to get rid of his Google stock, he wouldn't have to pay capital gains taxes.

The OGE allows executive branch employees to defer tax burdens if they are required to get rid of their assets to avoid a conflict. The law says the tax deferral "aids in attracting and retaining highly qualified personnel in the executive branch."

Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson controversially took advantage of that law. Paulson, who was CEO of Goldman Sachs prior to joining the government, saved millions of dollars by putting his $700 million Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500) stake into a blind trust.

Interestingly, Paulson's trust couldn't buy Treasuries, since being the Treasury secretary certainly would have made holding those assets conflict with his duties.

Schmidt would only need to pay capital gains taxes if he were to later sell the securities that the trust bought during his tenure as Commerce secretary.

So don't shed too many tears for Eric Schmidt. Yeah, he'd have to give up his Google stake, but he could save many tens of millions of dollars by doing it.

Can tech make a dirty fuel clean?

Fort McMurray, Alberta (CNN) -- This is Drew Zieglgansberger's dirty little secret: a huge metal tube that's filled with a roaring natural-gas flame.

"Here's the big culprit," Zieglgansberger said, yelling over the squeal of the industrial process, which is used to melt oil out of the ground here in northern Canada. "We're burning natural gas to get out something like butane (oil). We know that, but I wanted to show you anyway. It's a massive amount of energy we use to create the steam."

This is the oil industry's answer to the traditional process of strip mining Canada's boreal forest to extract "oil sands" from the ground.

Instead of digging for oil, "in situ" oil fields such as this one, about 500 miles north of Canada's border with Montana, send pipes and steam into the ground to slurp the fuel out of the dirt.

The metal tube is large enough "you could get three half-ton trucks in there," said Zieglgansberger, who is Cenovus' senior vice president at Christina Lake. The fire heats water, which winds around inside the tunnel in pipes that look like brain matter. Cenovus injects that steam into the ground to melt a sticky form of crude that's mixed in with the dirt about 1,200 feet below the surface. The heat and water loosen the oil, allowing it to be pumped back to the surface and then refined.

The huge flame is the "culprit" because all of the energy it takes to power the process makes extracting oil in this way rather inefficient.

But it's also an opportunity: Cenovus and others see this type of operation as an environmentally friendly alternative to oil sands mining. Instead of clearing the forest to dig out this oil-dirt mixture, and leaving ponds of toxic waste on the surface, in-situ developments such as this do their work underground.

The companies do cut strips out of the forest to conduct seismic tests that tell them where the oil is located. They argue this is both aesthetically pleasing and environmentally friendly. Some environmentalists, however, say the strips still pose problems for local wildlife, including migrating caribou.

The oil industry sees this type of operation as its future. By 2015, most of the oil produced from Canada's massive oil sands reserve will be steamed out of the ground instead of mined, Zieglgansberger said. About 80% of all oil sands will be extracted using this method, according to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

These technological advances could lead to a cleaner manner of oil extraction.

"Technological advancements are what started this industry, and it's what is going to help this industry continue to grow," said Anne Marie Toutant, vice president of mining operations at Suncor, the company that started mining for oil here in 1967.

The mining side of Canada's oil sands is also making an effort to be greener.

Suncor plans to stop building new tailing ponds, which are toxic lakes of industrial waste that have been blamed for killing migratory birds. The company has developed a new polymer that it can inject into these lakes to turn them back into land much more quickly.

"We're now talking about reducing our footprint to about one quarter of what it would have been," said Bradley Wamboldt, general manager for tailings at Suncor. "Viewed from space, that means you see less of an impact."

The company recently opened up a field on the site of a former tailing pond after filling the hole with dirt and then planting native vegetation on top. The Alberta government has certified only 257 acres of land as fully reclaimed -- 0.16% of the total active mining area. About 6,500 acres are at some intermediate stage of the process, according to the province's environment ministry.

Projects such as these, and the promise of in-situ technology, lead Zieglgansberger to believe technology and innovation can make a dirty fuel cleaner.

"I don't want to do something that's going to make my grandkids say they're ashamed of their grandfather," he said.

The industry gets an unfair rap, he said.

"We're not just a bunch of cowboys out here punching holes in the ground so we can hold up our money bags and go, "Arr! Look at us!' "

Paypal Sudah Verified, Tapi...?

Senin, 25 Agustus 2008

Sign up for PayPal and start accepting credit card payments instantly.


Beberapa waktu yang lalu saya nekad membeli Virtual Credit Card (VCC) untuk melakukan proses Verifikasi Paypal. Saya membeli VCC di dalam negeri aja, yaitu melalui jasa VCC Indonesia. Alhamdullilah dan memang benar apa yang dikatakan oleh para pakar, ahli atau netprneur bisnis online maupun penghasilan online di dunia internet marketing dan sebagai nya yang berbau Online, bahwa verifikasi Paypal menggunakan VCC memerlukan waktu yang cukup singkat. Hal ini berbeda pada umumnya dengan melakukan verifikasi paypal menggunakan kartu kredit (Credit Card) yang memakan waktu cukup lama.

Dengan VCC tersebut, saya bisa langsung ter-verifikasi Paypal gak pake lama. Hanya butuh beberapa menit saja, langsung beres dengan dibantu admin VCC Indonesia. Memang ada keuntungan dan kerugian yang di peroleh sih, mungkin bisa di baca disini.

Nah, beberapa hari setelah paypal terverifikasi, ternyata pihak Paypal belum sepenuhnya memberikan kebebasan kepada saya untuk mengakses fasilitas Paypal ato lebih dikenal dalam bahasa bule nya Limited Account Access.

Dalam "Resolution Center", pihal Paypal memberikan beberapa pilihan untuk meng-upload atau mengirimkan data alamat (Proof of address) yaitu berupa scan KTP atau sejenisnya yang bisa mewakili alamat kita.

Untuk status Paypal saya sih sudah Verified, jadi tinggal mengirimkan informasi tambahan saya saja. Mungkin hal ini dikarenakan Paypal sangat terproteksi dengan keamanan yang SUPER, sehingga agak merepotkan para pemakai Paypal di Indonesia.

PS:
Dengan VCC, dana juga dikembalikan lagi sebesar $1.95 sebagai bonus awal kita men-verifikasi Paypal. Bagaimana, jika ingin memakai VCC sebagai verifikasi Paypal. Silahkan bisa beli disini. Bila belum punya akun Paypal, daftar disini aja, GRATIS

Jablai Oh Jablai My Blog

Ampun deh dan maaf banget kalo konten pada artikel di blog ini bener-bener jablai beberapa waktu belakangan ini. Perlu di ketahui blog ini sebenarnya masih bernyawa dan masih hidup koq, Cuma kasih sayangnya yang kurang aja… :-)

Maklum juga beberapa waktu yang lalu saya disibukkan dengan tugas-tugas kuliah, ujian semester, laporan PKL plus seminar/presentasi-nya dan tak kalah ketinggalan adalah tentunya laporan akhir. Ya, insya allah tahun ini saya lulus namun entah mau ngikut wisuda di tahun ini sekalian atau di awal tahun depan. Saya pengen sih ngikut wisuda di akhir tahun ini aja, tapi saya harus penuh XTRA ngebut membuat laporan akhir tersebut. Alhamdulillah Tugas Akhir sudah selesai dan udah OK di jadikan sebagai bahan pelaporan akhir saya, yaitu sebagai salah satu persyaratan kelulusan.

Selain itu, seminar presentasi laporan PKL alias Praktek Kerja Lapangan juga sudah di laksanakan satu hari setelah pembukaan Olimpiade Beijing 2008 (mode on:ada hubungannya gak ya… :-) ). Ya, memang saya sengaja mengambil tanggal tersebut. Sebenarnya saya sih ingin di hari 8-8-08, karena angka tersebut konon merupakan angka keberuntungan sehingga harapan saya adalah bisa sukses dan beruntung pada saat melakukan seminar tersebut.

Tapi tidak apalah, karena saya melaksanakan selang satu hari, jadinya 9-8-08. Alhamdulillah pelaksanaan seminar juga bisa berjalan lancar, ya walaupun sedikit ada kesalahan teknis tetapi bisa di kendalikan sih. Biasa lah penyakit lama, kadang kelupaan ngomong he..he..

Sekarang tinggal revisi sedikit lagi lalu di jilid ala skripsi dech. Kalo boleh jujur sih, saya agak merasa keberatan akan tugas-tugas yang menumpuk seperti itu karena singkatnya saya membuat dua buah laporan ala skripsi, padahal saya hanya mengambil jurusan D3 manajemen bisnis. Hal ini berkesan seperti S1 bahkan S2. Semoga saja, kurikulum ke depannya sudah berubah, ya walaupun mungkin saya sendiri sudah lulus.

Kembali ke tema sebelumnya,
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Kalo di halaman ini memang menurut anda kurang berbobot, silahkan lihat dan baca halaman weblog saya yang lain disini. Vakumnya blog ini juga karena disibukkan di blog tersebut lho. Isinya antara lain adalah tentang semua tips, dunia perempuan, keseharan, artikel remaja dan bisnis, juga beberapa artikel menarik lainnya.

Semoga bisa bermanfaat.

Demikian curahan hari saya, terima kasih telah membaca artikel ini dan jangan kapok ya...?!

PS :
Oya, mungkin untuk beberapa waktu ke depan, blog ini akan saya campur atau muat berupa artikel dalam versi bahasa inggris. Mohon maaf.

Stiker F1 2008 Telah Nyampe

Rabu, 06 Agustus 2008

Mumpung dapet internet gratis di kampus, saya sempatkan update blog ini. Yah, mengingat beberapa waktu lalu saya banyak sibuk dengan pekerjaan tugas-tugas maupun persiapan seminar laporan PKL dan update blog lain, sehingga baru bisa sempet merambah blog ini. Mungkin terasa jablai blog ini karena pekerjaan di atas, jadi maklumlah ya "readers".

Langsung aja dech...
Dapet info dari blog ini, kalo Shell bagi-bagi gratis Stiker bertema Formula One 2008 lengkap satu set. Yach itung itung barang gratisan, jadi gak usah pikir panjang saya pun memesannya lewat situs resminya Shell.

Ternyata, kemarin baru saja saya terima stiker tersebut.

Kabar konon untuk mendapatkannya, sampeyan bisa dapetin tuch stiker dan dapat dilakukan dengan mengisi form aplikasi online yang diadakan sampai dengan 31 Desember 2008.



Klik disini untuk mengirimkan aplikasinya

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