Now, 2009 has ended and welcome to 2010! Happy new year for everyone.

For me, 2009 is a turnaround year. This is the first year I experienced working as a freelancer and as the result, it was a very good beginning. Now 2010 has come, I will try to do better this year.

Unfortunately, we have a sad news just before new year. That is the dead of Indonesia former president, KH. Abdurrahman Wahid or also known as Gus Dur. He was one of the best president ever and the one that gave us a change in our life, by not differentiate everyone, whatever the race and religion. I feel deeply sorry for him and his family, also a deep thanks to him.

Linux geeks must be know about the new OS from Google for quite a time. Since it was announced back in July, it began to attract attention from many people, including me. Finally, Google show how the OS is operating. I could said it is basically a Chrome browser that is made into an OS, instead a full usable OS for everyday work. Let’s take a look on the video.

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Finally, Google Code Jam 2009 qualification round has finished. I almost forgot this actually, until there is notification that tell us that the Code Jam has a problem at the beginning and get extended time for 2 hours (even though there is a notification 24 hours before, but I completely forgotten, lol). Finally I can participate in a couple of last hours left.

There is three problem that it is needed to be solved. The problem A is pretty simple, we can just change the pattern to Regular Expression and it’s done. I do it this way, but a little slower on large data. The B case is completely blank for me, never have run into this kind of problem before and I can’t finish it. For the C case, I can finish the small data, but not for the large data. It seems, I still need a lot of practice for better algorithm. But at least, I’m advanced to the next round. Let’s see how long I can stand in this competition.