Posts about Indonesia

Site under attack

Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Kopi Luwak, Epicentrum Walk, Jakarta

Yesterday I was in a state of shock… I suddenly discovered that some evil life forms had gained illegal access to this website and deleted all database tables. Everything was gone! But thanks to the web hosting provider, who had a backup of the site, whereisrune.com is not gone forever! It would otherwise have been… […]

Jakarta Sunday morning

Monday, 31 January 2011
Taman Rasuna, Jakarta

Yesterday morning I went on another of those bicycle trips around the city, and it happened to be another of those Sundays when jl Sudirman and jl Thamrin were closed to traffic. In front of the Grand Hyatt at 07:30, Sunday. GPS track log.

Implementing Google Maps API V3

Friday, 28 January 2011
Taman Rasuna, Jakarta

I’m now finally done migrating from version 2 to version 3 of the Google Maps API, and all maps (so far 55) on this website are now implemented using Google Maps API V3. In addition, I have improved/added some extra stuff: Custom parsing of gpx files (from GPS devices) to javascript. Replaced the crappy inline […]

Driving licence secured

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Jakarta

Today I became the happy owner of two local driving licences, one for car, and the other for motorbike. I got those two pieces of plastic cards at Daan Mogot in West Jakarta. I just had to show my passport and residence permit, and that’s it. Plus photo and fingerprint. No need to show my […]

Ellen is migrating to Bali

Thursday, 13 January 2011
Starbucks, Epicentrum Walk, Jakarta

Ellen has realized that it is not necessary to suffer in an inhuman climatic environment when other choices are readily available. As a consequence, Ellen arrived here in Jakarta on 5 January, and on 8 January, I went with her to the small town of Ubud in Bali to help her get installed. I can […]