Lion Air Emergency Landing without Front Gear

A Lion Air passenger aircraft MD-90 (now Boeing MD-90) on 23rd Feb 2009 landed at Batam airport without its front landing gear extended. The emergency landing resulting in damage to the undercarriage and the airport having to be closed.

The Aircraft with flight number JT-972 was carrying 162 passengers when made an emergency landing at Hang Ngadim Airport in Batam, Riau, Indonesia. No one on board was injured during and after the emergency landing.

The Lion Air operates some MD-90 and older MD series aircrafts, but start phasing them out and replace them with the newly purchased Boeing 737-900ER.

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Drupal Facebook Connect Module

Drupal as the best website/blog content management system (CMS) is now found its way to talk with facebook.com, the most active social networking websites. Integration of drupal powered website/blog with facebook is mainly to allow visitors to log in to a site using a Facebook account. It means that users can access a Drupal-powered website using their Facebook username (emaila address) and password. Just like OpenId, this is helpful that users do not need to register with a drupal website.

Facebook is constantly working in expanding their footprint beyond the social networking services. In early December 2009, Facebook announce a new feature for developers. The feature is called Facebook Connect, released and announced on the blog on 4th December 2009.

Drupal modules are now available to support the integration between drupal website/blog and facebook. At least, there are Drupal Facebook Connect and Drupal for Facebook Modules already developed independently and fortunately, both can do the authentication with Facebook.

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Google Adsense update: Western Union now available in Indonesia

Google Adsense on 07 February 2009 has announced the launch of a new method of payment for the publisher of Indonesia.

New payment methods are Western Union Quick Cash, expressed as a method of rapid, easy, and Free!

This is certainly good news, especially because this method of payment with google adsense checks sent through the post is very-very classic and requires a long time.

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Rihanna cancels Indonesia and Malaysia concerts

Once again, the R&B star Rihanna has postponed her concert in Jakarta. This is the second time Rihanna cancelled the concert. The first was in November 2008 and now she repeat in just one day before.

It was scheduled on February 12, 2009 and then canceled just one day before the concert. Another scheduled concert in Malaysia (13 Feb 2009) also canceled. There is a rumor that Rihanna's concert were canceled because of an assault case involving Rihanna's boyfriend.

Robyn Rihanna Fenty, known as Rihanna, is a 20 years old Barbadian singer. She created Rihanna Believe Foundation in 2006 to terminally ill children. She also serves as the cultural ambassador.

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addicted to internet

What would you do if you have an unlimited access to internet all the time?

Having blackberry or other PDA in your hands that lets you stay in touch with all your online buddies through an always connected service. Or working in an IT related company with broadband internet access in both office and apartment.

I've found myself trapped in a situation full of addiction, isolation, a waste of time in such life. Facebooking, browsing and googling for nothing, jumping from one website/blog to another till drop, and finally realized it is not the life I want to live.

I desperately need a change of my life and therefore I start building blogs.

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Living a Second Life Online

Welcome to "Living a Second Life" blog.

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