Moved!

Posted on October 29, 2007
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Okay, life must go on, right? So with the spirit of Sumpah Pemuda and the recent festive of Pesta Blogger 2007. I officially announce that:

I have moved my blog here!

It’s just around the corner, not very far away.

The reason? Well you can say that I’m getting bored with Wordpress and I want to try something new. But trust me, I won’t move it anywhere else in the future, I will use patvandiest.com as my main blog, always. I promise you that!

So please… please update your bookmark, I will forever graceful if you do that. But if you are reading my blog through my Feedburner account, worry not, I will automatically update the link. That goes to my other social networking related link.

I won’t delete this blog, though. I will keep it as past archives of my writings.

So, sorry for this inconvinience. I hope you don’t mind. See you at my other room.

Sincerely Yours,

Patrick Gerard van Diest
www.patvandiest.com

iPhone! On The Palm of My Hand….

Posted on August 3, 2007
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I’m one of the view people in Jakarta who were lucky enough to get my hands on those cute little thing they called iPhone. That phenomenal over hyped gadget arrived at the office yesterday. A friend of my boss, an expatriate, graciously lends his newly bought iPhone, so it could be reviewed by CHIP.

The problem is, none of the reviewers in here are vacant, and they were kinda occupied with finishing their article, considering these are the deadline days. So, the boss ordered me to do a hands-on review for this gadget A.S.A.P since we had to give it back before 5 in the afternoon. Tough job, but somebody had to do it right? And there I am, examining that stuff quickly and find interesting features on it.

The results? We’ll you have to read it yourself on the next edition of CHIP magazine. :P

Meanwhile, here’s that cutie….

“New Music From Indonesia” Podcast

Posted on June 6, 2007
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Equinox DMD is a company that distributes full track digital music downloads to the iTunes Music Stores. They emphasize on indie or less mainstream Indonesian music. They’re one of the pioneers of Indonesian first podcast with their "New Music From Indonesia" show (sponsored by Djarum).

The podcast consist of interviews with various people in our music industry (especially the independent ones) about various things regarding to the Indonesia’s music scene. The host, Jason Tedjasukmana has done great job on discussing topics that are very interesting. You can subscribe to that podcast free in iTunes Music Stores

from the beginning; CHIP has built a relationship to distribute the weekly podcast via its CHIP DVD. They even managed to do a live podcast last year on Indocomtech 2006. This is one of the means of CHIP to introduce and promote podcast technology to Indonesian people.

This is a good thing for us. It shows the world that Indonesian artists were as good (or sometimes even better) than their foreign compatriots. We now have the medium to promote our music to the world. Kudos to Equinox DMD for doing a great job.

PS: This post related to the old idea of mine to build a music blog consists of interesting artist that I listened. I am currently lining up the pieces for that blog. So stay tune for updates regarding the blog.

“CD Headhunting” Updates

Posted on November 20, 2006
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Last night after went out with my girl, I decided to check one of my targeted CD, Morrissey’s “Ringleaders of the Tormentor”. A couple of weeks ago I saw that record on Aquarius Pondok Indah along with “Live at Earl’s Court”. Well, with the fact that they offer two copies of Ringleader there, I then chose to buy “Live..” first then saving money to buy ” Ringleaders..” next time around. Bad decision.

You know that old saying, “Regret comes afterwards”. On the road to Aquarius, I just get a hunch that something’s not right. It’s true. When I arrived then checked, those two copies were missing. Dumb luck. Then I remembered what my friend Tyas told me: “You should rather go broke than not having what you wanted right in that instance”. Well, that’s what she told me (kinda..).

The New U2 iPod Special Edition

Posted on June 7, 2006
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Apple introduced their new iPod U2 Special Edition. This new version is based on Apple’s fifth generation iPod Video 30GB. Just like its predecessor, this new U2 iPod has a similar theme, black that is. From the bottom to the very end its covered in an all-black stainless steel enclosure with red Click Wheel in the middle. The different is this version has a larger 2.5″ screen.

The new U2 iPod is based on the fifth generation 30GB iPod and holds up to 7,500 songs, 25,000 photos or over 75 hours of video. Also, it features up to 14 hours of battery life for music playback (so they say).

One unique feature is that when a user buys this iPod, he/she will receive 30 minutes of exclusive U2 video that can be downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. It also integrates seamlessly with iTunes Music Store and the iTunes digital music jukebox. This iPod features a new Auto Sync technology that automatically downloads digital music, podcasts, photos, audiobooks, home movies, music videos and popular television shows onto the iPod and keeps them up-to-date whenever the iPod is plugged into a Mac or Windows computer using USB 2.0.

The market price for this brand new iPod is $329.

So why do we have to buy it?