Jimmy’s Junkyard

This picture was taken from 101 Towers at Taipei (about 382 metre height - on my current floor).
The equipment was Canon EOS 350D with f/8, 4 secs exposure, and ISO 400.

Sadly, I didn’t bring my tripod, so a tons of brochures was used as a stand The actual file resolution is 3456×2304 pixels (8 MP) and hardly resized to 590×800 pixels to fit this page.

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I have read a lot of blogs in my life. From my good friends to nobody. I’ve seen a lot of you use blog as an online diary. You write about your dog, your cat, you brother, or even about yourself and your activities.

Nothing’s wrong with that and I don’t mind reading that. It’s totally your rights to write anything that you like on your blog. But hey, why don’t you write something useful inside your blog? I see that some people have done that, but most bloggers dont.

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Last night, I saw a good movie on local TV. Actually, that was one of my favorite movie, with title Swordfish. I believe most of you have seen this movie, eh? I have seen this movie few times, and this movie really impresses me much. Not because of the scenes or the actors/actresses, but the path and logic from the movie itself.

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Later this year, we will have a DIY Notebook around the market. The 7 main components like cover/panel, LCD, battery, adapter, hard disk, optical drive, and keyboard are replaceable. In other words, all brands that have joined this consortium (some say that there are 50 brands already join this consortium) should have same design so these 7 parts will be interchangeable.

Few days ago, I had some discussion about this with my colleague.
The question is simple, about the future of DIY Notebook. Will this business be a new booming and trend as DIY PC (we call them as “PC rakitan” or “non build-up PC”)? Will this business be able to compete with branded notebook?

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Cable is one of the most underestimated part in audio. A lot of people consider to upgrade their CD player, their pre/amplifier, their speaker, or even their room (the accoustic). But they actually forget one of the most important thing: Cable!

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Few weeks ago, a member of CHIP’s forum asked me why do we need a powerful subwoofer (with big magnet, stiff/hard cone, and lots of power) in car audio application?

The question was actually simple, but it took time for me to answer it (since I had forgotten my physic class, anyway I was in social class, not science).

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I chat with my colleague yesterday. I didnt mean to ask him, but suddenly (I didn’t know why) I asked him to check about Toshiba DVD Player SD-2960. His office is located near electronics store, so that’s why I asked him.

Few hours after the chat, he called me. He said that he’s seeing a SD-2960, the one and only, at a shop located somewhere around Glodok (this is the most popular electronic area in town). He asked me whether I wanted to buy it. I answer, “Yes of course!”. I had to pay Rp 650.000 for the unit.

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Artist: Huang Hong Ying
Album: Tasting Loneliness For The First Time
Publisher: Hugo Record
Recording Technology: HDCD

About this album:
This is one of my favourite album for testing audio performance. Huang Hong Ying has an excellent voice, like a classic Chinese singer at Chinese orchestra (she really has “power to enter deep in your soul” inside her voice in this album). I don’t find similiar singer who has sound like her. I think, she has her own style.

At first, you may a little bit surprise hearing her sound (I’ve told you, her voice is like a classic Chinese orchestra singer, not like a usual pop/jazz singer), but time by time I believe you will enjoy this compilations.

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I have just chat with my friend. He asked me about Active and Passive Crossover System. After gave him some brief explanation, I decided to write down about this topic on my blog. I think this is very interesting topic and most of people often ask about it (usually at car audio). I decide to split this topic to more than one article. The first (this one) should discuss about basic Crossover. Please check other links at Audio categories.

So, enjoy it. This is also my first online blog (I have some of them, but offline).

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