Tattoorism: Christina's Fleur-de-lys

For those of you visiting Tattoosday for the first time, I refer to posts based on reader submissions as Tattoorism. That is, tattoos from out of town visiting us here in the blogosphere.

There was a pleasant surprise in my in box this morning:


Skeptics may say, "What's the big deal? It's just a fleur-de-lis!" But we here at Tattoosday don't think that way. Tattoos aren't just designs inked into the flesh, they generally carry significance that transcend the skin and touch the soul.

And I'm always interested when someone I've never met takes the time and energy to send me a photo and elaborate on their tattoo. Christina's tattoo, above, is a case in point.

I'll let Christina explain her one and only tattoo:

"Tom Berg at SoCal Tattoo in San Pedro, CA did my ink. He designed the elaborate tattoo for the main character in the tv show "Prison Break," [see below] among others.

My husband works for the show and knows Tom, so he was able to get an appointment in two weeks instead of the one-year waiting list that he normally has. So we had that going for us, which is good.

People ask me all the time if the 4-inch fleur de lys between my shoulders means that I really really love the [New Orleans] Saints, or the Boy Scouts... Nope. The fleur has been popping up in my life for years. I wore a ring with a fleur on it, identical to a ring that my best friend in high school wore, which we got on my first road trip. That relationship was instrumental in breaking me out of my shell in school. I wore the fleur on a necklace through college. Then, I spent a year living in Florence, Italy. The symbol of the city is the Florentine "gigli," or lily, the Italian version of the fleur de lys.

One of my housemates said something that stuck with me. "Florence doesn't change you, it only makes you more like you are."

For me, my tattoo is a symbol of my journey toward becoming who I am supposed to be, doing what I am supposed to do, living how I am supposed to live. I got it two months after I married the love of my life, my best friend since I was 12."

The Fleur-de-lis (also spelled fleur-de-lys) has appeared on Tattoosday previously here. I'd like to thank Christina for her continued readership and contribution to the blog!

I cannot guarantee that I'll publish every tattoo e-mailed my way, so I don't openly solicit contributions. However, every once in a while, it's a nice change of pace, both for us here at Tattoosday and, I believe, the readers. Thanks again, Christina!

Google's newest venture

Today we're excited to announce Google Ventures, Google's new venture capital fund. This is Google's effort to take advantage of our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new technology companies. By borrowing the best practices of top-tier, financially focused venture capital firms and bringing to bear Google's unique technical expertise and brand, we think we can find young companies with truly awesome potential and encourage their development into successful businesses.

At its core, Google Ventures is charged with finding and helping to develop exceptional start-ups. We'll be focusing on early stage investments across a diverse range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, clean-tech, bio-tech, health care and, no doubt, other areas we haven't thought of yet. Central to our effort will be our fellow Googlers, whom we view as a critically important resource to help educate us about potential investments areas and evaluate specific companies.

Economically, times are tough, but great ideas come when they will. If anything, we think the current downturn is an ideal time to invest in nascent companies that have the chance to be the "next big thing," and we'll be working hard to find them. If you think you have the next big idea, or if you just want to to learn more, please see our website at www.google.com/ventures.

Posted by Rich Miner and Bill Maris, Managing Partners, Google Ventures

Email in Indian languages

It's hard for me to imagine going without email for a day. It's such an easy and convenient way to communicate with my friends and family. However, there was one limitation that bothered me: my family members and friends who prefer to communicate in Hindi did not have an easy way to type and send email in their language of choice. I am extremely happy to announce the launch of a new feature in Gmail that makes it easy to type email in Indian languages.

When you compose a new mail in Gmail, you should now see an icon with an Indian character, as the screenshot below shows. This feature is enabled by default for Gmail users in India. If you do not see this function enabled by default, you will need to go the "Settings" page and enable this option in the "Language" section.

When you click the Indian languages icon, you can type words the way they sound in English and Gmail will automatically convert the word to its Indian local language equivalent. For example, if a Hindi speaker types "namaste" we will transliterate this to "नमस्ते." Similarly, "vanakkam" in Tamil will become "வணக்கம்." We currently support five Indian languages -- Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam -- and you can select the language of your choice from the drop-down list next to the icon.

We built this new feature using Google's transliteration technology, which is also available on Google India Labs, Orkut, Blogger and iGoogle. I hope you find this feature useful to communicate with those of your friends and family who prefer to write in their native language, and it will be available soon to businesses and schools using Google Apps. Now back to replying to all those Hindi emails I got from my family and friends today!

Posted by Chandramouli Mahadevan, Software Engineer

Getting your Medicare records in Google Health

Google Health is working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on a pilot program in Arizona and Utah that lets Medicare beneficiaries import their Medicare claims data into Google Health.

The pilot is one of several CMS programs to test out how the government can give beneficiaries secure access to their medical data online. Before I came to Google, I worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which houses CMS. At the time, the idea of giving beneficiaries access to their own Medicare claims data in electronic format was just that — an idea. Today, it's becoming a reality. And given the more than $19 billion investment the government is making in Health IT as part of the stimulus package, now is the perfect time.

As a part-time caregiver to my mother who has a serious chronic illness and someone who just lost both elderly grandparents in the past four months to illness, I can see the benefit of having all of my family’s medical information organized in one place. When Google Health launched last year, I promptly set up accounts for my mother and both grandparents. But at the time, I found it frustrating that I was not able to access electronic copies of my grandparents' Medicare claims — where most of their medical data resided.

The Medicare Arizona and Utah pilot is designed to give beneficiaries choice in the tools they use to manage their medical records online. Google Health is one of four personal health records (PHR) that beneficiaries can choose from. While only traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare beneficiaries with a primary residence in Arizona and Utah are eligible to participate, this includes nearly 1.1 million beneficiaries living in those regions.

For beneficiaries who choose to participate, it's important to know that Medicare does not have access to information in your Google Health Account — Medicare will only be sending data to your Account. Beneficiaries who participate in the pilot will still have access to data imported into their Google Health Accounts after the pilot concludes at the end of 2009. And with the recently launched Google Health sharing feature, any beneficiary enrolled in this pilot can now share this data with family members and doctors in their care network.

If I had this type of electronic access to my grandparents' medical records during my family's medical crisis, it would have been a huge help to me. I applaud CMS for taking this big step towards empowering consumers with access to their own health records.

If you're a Medicare beneficiary living in Arizona or Utah and are interested in participating in the pilot, you can get started here.

Posted by Missy Krasner, Product Marketing Manager, Google Health

Bumbu Masakan - Bumbu Dasar Merah

Jika Anda tidak memiliki banyak waktu luang, membuat bumbu dasar bisa menjadi solusi praktis dalam memasak. Seperti bumbu dasar merah. Dengan bumbu dasar ini Anda bisa membuat beragam masakan. Seperti sambal urap, balado telur, sayur asam pedas, sambal goreng tempe, tumis kangkung pedas, ayam bakar merah, rica-rica daging dan lain sebagainya. Resep/Foto: Budi Sutomo

Bahan:
30 buah cabe merah
12 buah bawang merah
8 siung bawang putih
2 buah tomat
1 sdt terasi (jika suka)
1 sdm gula pasir
2 sdt garam
6 sdm minyak goreng

Cara Membuat:
1. Haluskan semua cabe merah, bawang merah, bawang putih, tomat, terasi, gula pasir, dan garam hingga lembut.
2. Panaskan minyak, tumis bumbu yang telah dihaluskan hingga harum. Angkat. Dinginkan.
3. Masukkan bumbu di dalam stoples, tutup rapat. Bumbu siap digunkan setiap saat.
Untuk 100 g

Tip:
Bumbu bisa bertahan hingga 10 hari jika disimpan dalam lemari pendingin.
Agar lebih praktis haluskan bumbu dengan mesin penghalus bumbu listrik. Giling agak lama jika Anda menghendaki bumbu dengan tekstur halus.

Disable Copy dan Paste pada IE

Sebelumnya,saya juga pernah memposting tentang Disable Right Click,nah kali ini kita akan membahas Disable Copy dan Paste,suatu halaman Blog,meskipun ini hanya bekerja baik pada Browser Internet Explorer (IE) Jika kita sedang membutuhkan suatu artikel dari sebuah Blog,dan ingin mengcopy artikel tersebut,tapi !!234@! Kok nggak bisa ya..?? Nah sebenarnya teknik semacam itu hanya menyelipkan beberapa kode pada : <body> Maksudnya? Coba anda pergi ke Dashboard,lalu pilih Tata Letak,selanjutnya pilih Edit HTML. Cari kode berikut: <body> Jika sudah ketemu,hapus kode tersebut dan ganti menjadi seperti di bawah ini: <body ondragstart="return false;" onselectstart="return false;" oncontextmenu="return false;"> Lalu Simpan. Untuk melihat hasilnya,silahkan buka halaman blog anda pada browser IE,dan coba blok artikel anda,apa yang terjadi? Baca Juga Yang Ini.. Disable Right Click Membuat Daftar Isi Pada Blog Menghilangkan Navbar Blog

The 2009 Spelman College CS Olympiad

We've just sponsored the Seventh Annual Spelman College Computer Science Olympiad for the third consecutive year — something we were proud to do as part of our commitment to supporting computer science education and encouraging talented students from diverse backgrounds. This year, 22 teams from 12 Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) or Association of Computer/Information Sciences and Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI) participated in the Olympiad.

One of the five events was the programming challenge, which for the second time was a Google Gadgets competition. Their task? To build an interactive, useful, and creative Google Gadget. Teams worked on their gadget concept and design prior to the Olympiad, and then brought their gadgets to a Friday night hack session, where Googlers and students worked together to debug the gadgets and make last-minute adjustments. At the conclusion of the workshop, teams presented their gadgets to a panel of three Googler judges, demonstrating gadget functionalities, discussing design challenges, and providing suggestions for how they would further refine their gadgets. Our judges were then faced with the tough task of deciding upon the winners:

• First Place: Hampton University "2011"
• Second Place: University of the District of Columbia "Firebirds"
• Third Place: Norfolk State University "Green"

Here's a look at Hampton University's first place gadget, a rendering of a game akin to tic-tac-toe called "Do Not Want."


Congratulations to all 22 teams!

Posted by Anna Davda, University Programs Specialist

An hour for the Earth

Cities around the world will participate in Earth Hour on Saturday, turning off their lights to raise awareness for energy conservation.

You might remember that last year we “turned the lights out” on the Google.com homepage during Earth Hour to symbolize our own commitment to sustainability. We won’t be turning out the lights on our homepage again this year. Our users come first, and while we received lots of enthusiastic feedback last year, some found an all-black Google.com to be a little confusing. (Also, darkened screens don’t actually save energy — modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of what they display.) We are actively supporting this year's Vote Earth, an Earth Hour 2009 initiative to gather one billion words to present at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December of this year. Participants can share their opinions about climate change through the Earth Connect social platform which incorporates Google tools including Google Maps, App Engine, Friend Connect, Google Translate, Blogger and Feedburner.

After all, Earth Hour is about more than dimming lights; it’s about making a commitment to reduce energy consumption throughout the year. At Google, we take this commitment seriously and over the past twelve months we’ve worked hard to reduce Google’s own power use and to help others reduce theirs:

• We remodeled our San Francisco office to achieve a Gold rating by the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED Green Building Rating System
• Our engineers are working on a tool called Google PowerMeter that will show consumers home energy information almost in real time, right on their computer
• We’ve designed the most efficient data centers possible and are sharing some of our best practices with industry peers
• In the fall we compiled tips and tricks to help our users save energy (and money)
• Our summit on plug-in vehicles in Washington was standing room only, with policy, technology, and energy experts all discussing an electric vehicle future
  

Google will continue to work hard this year to be as green as possible as a company, and we encourage others to take an hour on Saturday and commit to the Earth too. For some great ideas on ways you can save energy every hour of every day through computing efficiency, check out Climate Savers Computing Initiative and their recent video challenge: “Power Down for the Planet.”

Posted by Bill Weihl, Green Energy Czar

Jorge's Attabeira Tattoo Pays Tribute to His Puerto Rican Heritage

Last May, I spent a few minutes on the N train talking to a woman named Patricia who had a cool tattoo on the back of her neck (see the post here). She disembarked before I was able to get all the facts on the piece, but I still posted the blurry photo.

No, I didn't run into her again. But I did meet Jorge, who had a similar piece on his inner left forearm based on the fertility goddess Atabey, or Attabeira, the goddess of fertility in the Taíno culture of Puerto Rico and other parts of the Caribbean:



The piece runs the length of his inner arm, and took 2 sittings and 6 hours to complete.

He had this tattooed by Byron Velasquez, then at Rising Dragon Tattoos in 2001. Byron now tattoos out of Abstract Black NYC. Jorge chose this image as an icon to represent his Puerto Rican heritage. This is one of his three tattoos.

Check out other work from Rising Dragon previously appearing on Tattoosday here.

Thanks to Jorge for sharing his tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Membuat Daftar Isi pada Blog

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Xrin Arms Explains His Tattoos

I ran into Anthony after work while passing through the Amtrak section of Penn Station.

He was in town to perform in Brooklyn and was waiting for his ride. He performs under the name "Xrin Arms," which he pronounced as "Your-in-arms". He's a techno punk musician currently on tour. Here's the flier for the gig he was playing that night:


He had an unusual series of tattoos which he allowed me to photograph, after he explained them to me.

The tattoos cover a significant part of his upper right arm, as well as one side of his forearm.

First and foremost, as a writer, he had his pen inked on his arm.


He always uses a Pilot Precise V5, he said,

and he produced one to show me, holding it up to the piece to show me that it was tattooed to scale.

The next element of his inked arm is a legion of sperm directed at his elbow. Some of the sperm are traveling from the pen, representing the knowledge that flows from the written word.

At the center of the elbow is a moth in a circle. He said that it represents a "moth in a beehive". When I questioned that image, he acknowledged that that was how he feels a lot of the time.


If you picture a moth in a beehive, you envision many things: solitude and violence. Of beauty and alienation. The sperm heading toward this image reinforce that the creative experience is a birthing process fraught with danger.

Lastly, on the back of the bicep, is an owl with its wings outstretched.


The owl represents to him that he is noctural, and stays up all night.

He has 2 other tattoos but we stuck with these because they played off one another.

They were tattooed by Chris Bragg when he was working out of Hammer's Tattoo & Body Piercing in Canton, Ohio.

Please check out Xrin Arms myspace page here. There's also a cool interview with Anthony over on the blog Digital Liver here.

Thanks again to for sharing his work with us here on Tattoosday.

As an added extra, here's a video of Xrin Arms song "Feather Mask":

Changes to our sales and marketing organizations

Google has grown very quickly in a very short period of time. When companies grow that quickly it's almost impossible to get everything right—and we certainly didn't. In some areas we've created overlapping organizations which not only duplicate effort but also complicate the decision-making process. That makes our teams less effective and efficient than they should be. In addition, we over-invested in some areas in preparation for the growth trends we were experiencing at the time.

So today we have informed Googlers that we plan to reduce the number of roles within our sales and marketing organizations by just under 200 globally. Making changes of this kind is never easy—and we recognize that the recession makes the timing even more difficult for the Googlers concerned. We did look at a number of different options but ultimately concluded that we had to restructure our organizations in order to improve our effectiveness and efficiency as a business. We will give each person time to try and find another position at Google, as well as outplacement support, and provide severance packages for those who leave the company. Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone affected for all they have contributed to Google.

Posted by Omid Kordestani, Senior VP, Global Sales and Business Development

iGoogle's got game... themes!

I'm happy to announce the launch of iGoogle game themes. These themes offer our users new iGoogle backdrops inspired by their favorite video games, including classics like "Mario" and "Mega Man" and new sensations like "Wii Sports" and "Spore." Like our iGoogle artist themes, fashion and music themes and themes for causes, we hope that the game themes delight our users and reflect their personal interests. As you can imagine, these themes in particular have captivated our iGoogle software engineers who are gamers themselves. I'll now turn the post over to one of our engineers who worked closely on the project, Matthew Chan, for more details.

A gamer's POV

I confess, I'm a game geek. My first experience with video games was spending hours and hours (not to mention my weekly allowance) playing "Donkey Kong" and "Galaga" at a nearby arcade until my fingers ached. These days I no longer have to ride my bike to the neighborhood arcade to play video games — I can do it in the comfort of my own home anytime I want! And even better... starting today, I can have images of my favorite childhood games right on my iGoogle page.

iGoogle now has graphics from all sorts of games that I know will excite my fellow gamers. Picture your homepage with "Burnout" cars zooming in the background, Ryu from "Street Fighter" blasting hadoukens across your page, or rock stars jamming out to tunes from "Guitar Hero." It doesn't end there. For those of you who used to dream about completing the Triforce or getting out of tombs alive, choose from "Zelda" or "Tomb Raider." Want more? Try "Dungeons & Dragons," "The Sims 3," or "World of Warcraft" on for size.

So come check out the new game themes (www.google.com/gamingthemes) and choose your favorite one. If you can't decide, no worries. Just add the game theme of the day and enjoy seeing a different one on your iGoogle page every day.

Here's a look at the themes in action:



Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience, and Matthew Chan, iGoogle engineer

Google, at your service

It used to be that creating a webpage was a pursuit reserved for the truly tech-savvy, requiring a geek's expertise in HTML, Java, or C++ coding.

These days, it's a different story. Working with a hosting service has made things a great deal easier, as they can help you reserve a name for your site (www.[insertyournamehere].com), and they often provide tools to help get you set up, with minimal to zero programming experience required.

Today, we're releasing Google Services for Websites, a few more tools that your hosting company can now enable to help you improve your website. This expanded program includes Webmaster Tools, AdSense, Custom Search, and Site Search, making it easier to drive traffic to your site, monetize your site through the Google ad network, and add various search capabilities to help your visitors find information on your site faster.


For more information, check out our Enterprise Blog, Webmasters Blog and Custom Search Blog. And if your hosting service doesn't have Google Services for Websites yet, send them to this page. We hope you find these new tools helpful.

Posted by Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager

Google's 2009 EMEA Faculty Summit

Our Zurich office was proud to host Google's second annual EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions) Faculty Summit last month. Eighty leading academics joined us from 66 universities in 24 countries for this three-day event.

The Faculty Summit's purpose is to increase collaboration between key universities and our engineering teams. This year, we organised more than 40 talks and presentations, plus panels, networking and social events to help our guests learn more about Google's work in their regions. In return, Googlers gained valuable insight into challenges faced by the region's universities and new developments in the academic world. Event highlights included a keynote by leading cryptographer and Turing Award winner Adi Shamir on the topic of privacy and security as related to cloud computing. Further discussion centered on topics ranging from the power and limitations of cryptographic technology to usability issues introduced by security requirements, with some debate over the balance between preventing abuse and identifying and reporting abusers.

Alfred Spector (VP of Research), Jeff Walz (University Relations) and I spoke about Google's engineering efforts and the impact of our university relations initiatives, with much discussion focusing on our involvement in the Arab and African regions. Rapidly expanding markets in the Middle East and Africa represent a major engineering challenge for us, and we are eager to continue collaboration with leading academic attendees from the region well beyond the Summit. We were pleased to welcome representatives from the Al Arabiya news channel, who highlighted this topic in a recent broadcast. We also heard from Google 'Research Award' and 'CS4HS' (Computer Science for High School) grant recipients and EMEA-based academics spending long-term sabbaticals at Google, who described their experiences over the past year.


This year also saw new additions to the Faculty Summit agenda, including a networking session allowing academics to discuss collaboration options one-on-one with specific Google engineers. This session spurred a great deal of activity — for instance, multiple Googlers are booked to deliver guest lectures at external events and universities and several attendees have been invited to present their findings on research ranging from 'Software Visualisation' to 'Mobile Agile Testing' at Google engineering offices across EMEA. We plan to make these networking sessions a focal point at future Faculty Summits!

I'd like to thank the organising team for their help in planning and executing this important event for the second year running. The 2009 EMEA Faculty Summit proved to be an incisive and informative event resulting in new academic and industrial collaborations. We look forward to reporting back on these synergies as they develop over the next year!

Posted by Nelson Mattos, VP of Engineering

Citizen participation that scales: a call to action

At Google we hold weekly town hall-style meetings with our founders, CEO, and guest speakers, which always feature a Q&A session. Managing Q&A is a unique challenge with an audience of thousands, in offices around the world, who inevitably want to ask more questions than we have time to answer. To help address this challenge, we developed Google Moderator, built on App Engine.

Moderator gives participants a way to submit questions and vote for the ones they want answered. And thanks to the scale that App Engine provides, this application can now support tens of thousands of people at once. This gives everyone the chance to be heard in a way that gives priority to the issues that matter most to the broader group.

As you may have heard, the White House is hosting an online town hall meeting on Thursday and has asked people to submit questions for the president and vote on which ones they think he should answer.

We think technology can be a force for greater accountability and access between citizens and their elected officials. We're excited that the White House has chosen to use the power of cloud-based applications like Google Moderator and App Engine to scale the president's direct dialogue with the American people.

To take part in this experiment in citizen participation, please visit: http://WhiteHouse.gov/OpenForQuestions

Posted by Vic Gundotra, Vice President, Engineering

Setting Domain di co.cc

Seperti yang sudah kita ketahui, bahwa co.cc adalah top level domain yang bisa kita dapatkan secara gratis. Kita bisa mengganti nama blog kita dari "http://namadomain.blogspot.com" atau "http"//namadomain.wordpress.com" (dll) menjadi "http://namadomain.co.cc" . Dengan co.cc kita bisa mengontrol DNS Records, A, MX, dan CNAME records, sehinga domain co.cc bukan hanya sekedar "URL Forwarding".
Berikut ini akan saya coba mengungkapkan tentang cara setting domain di co.cc:

Ada 3 tipe pengaturan di co.cc. Ketiganya memiliki fungsi tersendiri. berikut ini penjelasanya:

1. Managed DNS
Ini biasanya digunakan untuk sebuah web yang memerlukan web hosting dan mengharuskan untuk mengarahkan Name Server-nya ke hosting tersebut. Misal untuk membuat web di 000webhost, atau bisa juga untuk blog wordpress yg menggunakan hosting dari luar. Metode ini tidak cocok digunakan untuk blogger/blogspot yang menggunakan hosting default dari blogger/blogspot.
Cara setting untuk metode ini yaitu dengan mengisi pada kolom "Name Server 1 dan Name Server 2 dengan name server yg sesuai dengan hosting yang digunakan. Misal, bagi yang menggunakan hosting dari 000webhost maka untuk kolom "Name Server 1" disi dengan "ns01.000webhost.com" dan kolom "Name Server 2" disi dengan "ns02.000webhost.com". Kemudian klik tombol "Setup". Selesai


2. Zone Records
Zone records cocok digunakan bagi para pengguna blogger/blogspot. berikut ini cara setting untuk Zone Records

• Pada kolom "Host" isikan dengan nama domain yg sudah km daftarkan, misal "www.namadomain.co.cc" (jangan lupa dikasih "www")


• Untuk option "TTL" biarkan saja, gak perlu dirubah2


• Pada option "Type" pilih yang "CNAME"


• Untuk kolom "Value" isikan "ghs.google.com"

Sehingga akan seperti pada gamabr dibawah ini:

Langkah selanjutnya yaitu merubah settingan di blogger/blogspot caranya begini:

• Login ke blogger/blogspot kemudian masuk ke menu "Setting-->Publishing"


• Kemudian pilih "Switch to: • Custom Domain


• Setelah itu klik pada "Already own a domain? Switch to advanced settings"


• Kemudian isikan nama domain kamu yang baru pada kolom "Your Domain".



• Selanjutnya klik tombol "Save Setting"

Selesai. Kalau berhasil (Settingnya sudah benar) maka domain kamu yang baru akan aktif dalam waktu antara beberapa jam sampai 2 hari. Jadi sabar aja menunggunya. Blog kamu akan tetap bisa diakses dengan melalui domain yang lama.


3. URL Forwarding
URL forwarding bisa digunakan untuk apa aja, bisa web ato blog. Tapi URL Forwarding ini hanya memforward domain yg baru (yang di co.cc) ke domain lama. Jadi domain lama akan 100% seperti semula tanpa ada perubahan apapun, cuma kita bisa mengakses web/blog kita dengan mengetikkan nama domain baru kita di browser. Jika menggunakan URL Forwarding maka yang terindex di google atau Search engine yang lain adalah tetap Domain kita yang lama.
Untuk setting URL Forwarding sangat mudah, kita hanya mengisikan data-data yang diminta dan disesuaikan dengan web/blog kita, seperti "Redirect to:, Page Title, URL Hiding, Meta Description dan Meta Keywords". Kita tidak perlu lagi mensetting domain di web/blog kita lagi.
Note: Metode ini tidak dianjurkan jika tidak terpaksa

Jadi kesimpulannya adalah:

• Jika kamu memakai layanan blogger/blogspot maka gunakanlah "Zone Records"


• Jika domainnya digunakan untuk web yg memerlukan hosting atau untuk wordpress maka gunakanlah "Manage DNS"


• Jangan menggunakan "URL forwarding" jika tidak terpaksa. Misal untuk untuk blog dari multiply yang tidak support custom domain.

Two Tattooed Tourists on a Tuesday

Sometimes the hand of Fate guides the Tattoosday blogger as he journeys through the streets of New York. At lunch, a change in traffic signals prompted me to veer East, sending me into a bank vestibule that I rarely, if ever, frequent.

I could have ventured into a dozen branches or drug stores to do my business but this is where I ended up on a day that started frigid, but was still in the blustery high 30's at noon.

I finished my ATM transaction and exited, not even glancing at the two people to my left, jacketed and weighed down with large backpacks.

I hit the sidewalk, peering into a side window bordering the vestibule. I did a quick about-face and headed back into the bank. Despite the coats, hats, and long pants, I could tell the two men I had been next to had significant ink.

And, once back inside, I was delighted to find them both willing to talk tattoos.

Both men were visiting tourists from England. The first one I spoke to was Jethro "Jeff" Wood, a tattoo artist who works out of The SkynYard in Southend-on-Sea (in Essex County, 40 miles East of central London). I spoke to Jeff first, while his friend Sam worked the ATM machine.

Jeff estimates that his body is 30% covered in ink. He offered up this neck piece:


I apologize for the angle, but one can see that it's a pretty nice grim reaper tattoo. You also get a view of the small skull and crossbones behind Jeff's left ear.

He had been hanging out with another tattooer and "got drunk and tatted my neck". The artist was Dan Sims at Life Family Tattoo in Sevenoaks, Kent, in England.

Not to be outdone, Jeff's friend Sam had an amazing pirate-themed neck piece, with a "Do or Die" banner, courtesy of Jeff:


The two visitors seemed to enjoy showing their tattoos and were soon rolling up pant legs to show me what Jeff's apprentice, Charlie, had tattooed on the back of Sam's left leg:


That is the mask of The Ultimate Warrior.




Sam also showed me some work on his right leg, also credited to Charlie, featuring a mythical creature, "The Rare Horned Dolfin," stuffed and mounted by a taxidermist:


Granted, it's a funny tattoo, but I believe there was an element I was missing (perhaps a key facet of an inside joke). Sam and Jeff laughed heartily while showing me the piece, along with another gag tattoo on Sam's right calf, a D.L.T. sandwich:


In a DLT sandwich, the bacon is replaced by, you guessed it, tiny smiling dolphins!


I also get a kick out of the "I love frogs" scribbled above the D.L.T. Note the S is reversed. Sam indicated that Charlie had done some of these, but he had also inked a few himself, on an experimental basis.

Both men also have knuckle tattoos, and pictures of their knuckle are posted here at KnuckleTattoos.com.

Thanks again to Sam and Jeff for sharing their tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Two new improvements to Google results pages

Today we're rolling out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions -- both of which help guide users more effectively to the information they need.

More and better search refinements

Starting today, we're deploying a new technology that can better understand associations and concepts related to your search, and one of its first applications lets us offer you even more useful related searches (the terms found at the bottom, and sometimes at the top, of the search results page).

For example, if you search for [principles of physics], our algorithms understand that "angular momentum," "special relativity," "big bang" and "quantum mechanic" are related terms that could help you find what you need. Here's an example (click on the images in the post to view them larger):

Let's look at a couple of examples in other languages. In Russian, for the query [гадание на картах] (fortune-telling with cards), the algorithms find the related terms "таро" (tarot), "ленорман" (lenormand) and "тибетское гадание мо" (tibetan divination mo). In Italian, if you search for [surf alle canarie] (surf at the canary islands), we now offer suggestions based on the three most famous Canary Islands: "lanzarote," "gran canaria," and "fuerteventura":

We are now able to target more queries, more languages, and make our suggestions more relevant to what you actually need to know. Additionally, we're now offering refinements for longer queries — something that's usually a challenging task. You'll be able to see our new related searches starting today in 37 languages all around the world.

And speaking of long queries, that leads us to our next improvement...

Longer snippets

When you do a search on Google, each result we give you starts with a dark blue title and is followed by a few lines of text (what we call a "snippet"), which together give you an idea of what each page is about. To give more context, the snippet shows how the words of your query appear on the page by highlighting them in bold.

When you enter a longer query, with more than three words, regular-length snippets may not give you enough information and context. In these situations, we now increase the number of lines in the snippet to provide more information and show more of the words you typed in the context of the page. Below are a couple of examples.

Suppose you were looking for information about Earth's rotation around the sun, and specifically wanted to know about its tilt and distance from the sun. So you type all of that into Google: [earth's rotation axis tilt and distance from sun]. A normal-length snippet wouldn't be able to show you the context for all of those words, but with longer snippets you can be sure that the first result covers all those topics. In addition, the extra line of snippets for the third result shows the word "sun" in context, suggesting that the page doesn't talk about Earth's distance from the sun:

Similarly, if you're looking for a restaurant review that covers all the parts of the meal, longer snippets can help:

But don't just take our word for it — try it out yourself with your favorite long, detailed query.

These are just two recent examples of improvements we've made. We are constantly looking for ways to get you to the web page you want as quickly as possible. Even if you don't notice all of our changes, rest assured we're hard at work making sure you have the highest quality search experience possible.

Posted by Ori Allon, Technical Lead, Search Quality Team, and Ken Wilder, Snippets Team Engineer

RAHASIA SEHAT DENGAN JUS BUAH DAN SAYURAN

Gaya hidup back to nature sedang menjadi tren di masyarakat yang sadar pentingnya menjaga kesehatan tubuh. Seperti dalam ungkapan bijak “You are what you eat,” atau kesehatan tercermin dari apa yang Anda makan. Jika pola makan buruk, beragam penyakitpun akan bermunculan, sedangkan pola makan yang baik akan menjadikan tubuh bugar dan sehat. Ada hubungan sejajar antara pola perilaku makan dan kesehatan.

Tuntutan jaman yang serba cepat, kesibukan bekerja menjadikan sebagian masarakat kita lebih memnyukai pola makan serba instan. Seringnya mengkonsumsi makanan instan ini berdampak negatif terhadap kesehatan. Ini di sebabkan karena makanan instan kebanyakan mengandung pengawet, pewarna, pemberi rasa, tinggi lemak, tinggi protein, banyak gula, garam namun rendah serat. Pola makan ini menjadi pemicu timbulnya berbagai penyakit degeneratif seperti tekenen darah tinggi, diabetes mellitus, jantung koroner, stroke, obesitas hingga kanker. Agar terhindar dari berbagai penyakit tersebut, hendaklah kita menghindari pola makan tidak sehat. Perbanyak mengkonsumsi buah dan sayuran sebagai sumber vitamin, mineral esensial, serta nutrisi mikro yang penting bagi kesehatan tubuh. Buah dan sayuran juga mampu mendetoksifikasi tubuh dari beragam zat karsinogen penyebab kanker.

Buah dan sayur juga mengandung antioksidan tinggi. Antioksidan ini mampu mengubah sel-sel tubuh menjadi pengaman untuk melawan radikal bebas penyebab berbagai penyakit. Sejatinya, radikal bebas yang tidak terkontrol bisa menyebabkan kerusakan sel-sel. Disinilah antioksidan dalam buah dan sayuran mengambil peranan, seperti mencegah berkembangnya radikal bebas di dalam tubuh sekaligus memperbaiki sel-sel tubuh yang rusak.

Masalahnya, sebagian besar makanan sumber antioksidan sebaiknya dikonsumsi dalam keadaan mentah, agar tetap efektif manfaatnya. Mengonsumsi makanan mentah/segar dalam bentuk jus bisa menjadi solusi. Jus menjadikan buah dan sayuran lebih mudah dicerna dan meningkatkan citarasa sehingga lebih mudah diterima.

Pendekatan food based dengan cara terapi jus adalah cara terbaik untuk memperoleh berbagai antioksidan yang bermanfaat bagi tubuh dalam melawan berbagai penyakit. Vitamin, mineral, fitonutrien dan enzim dalam jus, dibutuhkan untuk merawat organ-organ tubuh, jaringan yang melemah, memperbaiki sistem kekebalan, meingkatkan daya tahan serta menjaga seluruh fungsi vital tubuh.

Disamping itu, jus juga merupakan metode cepat untuk memperoleh makanan yang mudah dicerna dan diasimilasi secara mudah dan cepat. Makanan tersebut akan masuk ke dalam sistem darah dan kelenjar tubuh, memberi makanan sel serta mempertahankan dan menjaga kesehatan hanya beberpa saat setelah jus diminum.

Contoh konkretnya bisa dilihat pada jus buah dan jus sayuran. Jus buah memasok lebih banyak vitamin sementara jus sayuran cenderung memasok lebih banyak mineral. Meskipun secara umum masing-masing mengandung keduanya. Vitamin dan mineral, merupakan elemen penting yang diperlukan tubuh untuk menjaga kesehatan. Dengan pasokan kontinyu dari jus buah dan sayuran, dipastikan kesehatan dan kebugaran tubuh akan tetap terjaga. Sehingga secara umum, jus dapat membantu memperbaiki kualitas kesehatan kita.

Di dalam buku ini mengulas secara mendalam tentang; Cara kerja terapi jus. Kandungan gizi buah dan sayuran. Khasiat buah dan sayuran untuk kesehatan. Herbal sebagai pelengkap terapi jus. Proses pembuatan jus. Tip jus yang enak dan menyehatkan. Jus untuk mengendalikan diabetes. Jus untuk menurunkan kadar kolesterol tinggi. Jus untuk mengontrol hipertensi. Jus untuk mengatasi ganguan pra menstruasi. Jus untuk mengatasi keputihan. Jus untuk membantu mengatasi asma dan alergi. Jus untuk meredakan asam urat. Jus untuk mengatasi sembelit dan wasir. Jus mencegah kanker. Jus untuk mencegah osteoporosis. Jus untuk peremajaan kulit dan awet muda. Jus untuk mengatasi anemia. Jus untuk mengatasi migren dan sakit kepala. Jus untuk mengobati diare. Jus untuk mencegah stroke. Jus untuk demam berdarah dan flu burung. Jus untuk meningkatkan stamina dan gairah seksual. Jus untuk kesehatan mata. Jus untuk mencegah penyakit jantung. Jus untuk mencegah obesitas. Jus untuk olahragawan.

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Supporting students in open source software development

Google Summer of Code, our program to introduce students to open source software development, is now in full swing for 2009. Over the past four years, we've paired nearly 2,500 "graduates" with more than 2,500 mentors from industry to academia, with some spectacular results: millions of lines of source code produced and over $15M in funding provided to open source development. This year student participants have more than 150 open source software and technology–related projects to choose from when submitting their applications, from operating systems to content management systems.

During the 2008 program, we had more than 975 students successfully complete their projects. Each participant received a $4,500 stipend and an ultra-awesome t-shirt to go along with their newly honed programming skills. We're particularly excited by the social ties our students form through the course of the program, as well. We've connected people in more than 98 countries, and hope to bring people from even more places into the Google Summer of Code community this year.

We'll be accepting student applications through April 3, 2009 at 12:00 pm PST. If you're interested in learning more, check out our Frequently Asked Questions or subscribe to our discussion list. You can also check out the Google Open Source Blog for regular updates on the program. When you're ready to get started, visit the Google Summer of Code 2009 site to submit your application. Best of luck to all of our applicants!

For an overview of the program, check out this video.



Posted by Leslie Hawthorn, Program Manager, Open Source Team

LOWONGAN CPNS APRIL 2009

Nama Perusahaan : Kelompok Belajar Sekolah KeduaDeskripsi : Kelompok Belajar SEKOLAH KEDUA adalah Kelompok Belajar yang bergerak pada bimbingan studi akademis dan konsultansi Edukasi. Berdiri sejak tahun 2007 dan bersifat informal. Seiring dengan perkembangan kelompok , kami membutuhkan Sumber daya Manusia yang berkualitas Lowongan CPNS 2009 untuk :1. Pembimbing Studi Matematika (SLTP dan SLTA)

LOWONGAN CPNS APRIL 2009

Nama Perusahaan : Kelompok Belajar Sekolah KeduaDeskripsi : Kelompok Belajar SEKOLAH KEDUA adalah Kelompok Belajar yang bergerak pada bimbingan studi akademis dan konsultansi Edukasi. Berdiri sejak tahun 2007 dan bersifat informal. Seiring dengan perkembangan kelompok , kami membutuhkan Sumber daya Manusia yang berkualitas Lowongan CPNS 2009 untuk :1. Pembimbing Studi Matematika (SLTP dan SLTA)

Sambal Goreng Kembang Turi

Kembang turi biasanya diolah sebagai campuran pecal/pecel atau campuran urapan sayuran dengan sambal kelapa. Jika Anda mau sedikit berkreasi, dengan bumbu sambal goreng, kembang turi bisa diolah menjadi hidangan lauk yang lezat.

Soal rasa, jangan ditanya, Teksturnya lembut dan rasa sedikit pahit terasa pas dengan campuran daging. Bumbu yang pedas membuat sepiring nasi tidak cukup untuk penyerta lauk ini. Selamat mencoba. Resep/Dapur Uji/Foto/Food Stylist: Budi Sutomo

Bahan:
250 g kembang turi, buang kepala putiknya
100 g daging sapi, potong korek api
60 g wortel, potong korek api
60 ml air
3 sdm minyak goreng
Bumbu:
4 buah cabe merah, haluskan
2 buah cabe merah, potongs erong
4 siung bawang merah, haluskan
2 siung bawang putih, haluskan
2 butir kemiri, haluskan
1 sdt gula pasir
2 batang serai, memarkan
2 cm lengkuas, memarkan
½ sdt terasi, haluskan
Cara Membuat:
1. Panaskan minyak, tumis semua bumbu-bumbu hingga harum. Masukkan potongan daging sapi, aduk hingga daging berubah warna.
2. Tuang air, masak hingga air mendidih. Masukkan wortel dan kembang turi. Masak sambil diaduk-aduk higga bumbu meresap dan semua bahan matang. Angkat.
3. Tuang ke dalam pinggan saji. Hidangkan panas.
Untuk 5 Porsi

Tip:
Daging sapi bisa diganti dengan udang atau ayam. Jangan memasak kembang turi terlalu lama karena teksturnya terlalu lunak. Buang putik kembang turi yang terletak di bagian dalam bunga agar rasanya tidak pahit.

Bunga Turi (Sesbania grandiflora)

Pohon turi adalah tanaman perdu berkayu yang tingginya bisa mencapai 10 meter. Selain kembang turi berwarna putih, ada juga varietas kembang turi berwarna merah. keduanya sama-sama enak dimakan. Selain kacang dan daunnya yang enak di makan, bunga turi juga sering diolah sebagai masakan. Masarakat Jawa mengolah bunga ini untuk campuran urapan, pecel, ditumis atau dibuat sayur. Rasanya hampir mirip dengan bunga pepaya namun tidak terlalu pahit. Teksturnya lunak dan agak sedikit berlendir. Selain kaya vitamin dan mineral, kembang turi juga banyak mengandung serat yang baik untuk menjaga kesehatan saluran pencernaan.

March is for hoops

As a big college hoops fan, I'm pretty excited that it's finally March. Sadly, my beloved Stanford Cardinal didn't make it to the tourney, but as a proud Arizona native, I still root for my hometown Arizona State Sun Devils. I always go a little crazy -- you might even say mad -- this time of year. I fill out my bracket, wear a lot of red and gold, and get into arguments with friends of mine from the UofA. I'm a little obsessed.

If you're like me, then I have some good news for you. We have several products that can help you follow the tournament.

• Live scores when you search for your favorite team
• An iGoogle gadget for following the action
• Breaking news on all the tournament excitement on Google News
• Local search to find a spot to watch the game 

To get you started, we put together some helpful tips about using Google to keep up with the Madness. Best of luck to you and your team! Unless, of course, they're playing ASU. ;-)

Posted by Nundu Janakiram, Associate Product Manager

Only God Can Judge Him

A nice surprise last night when, out of the blue, a previous Tattoosday subject, John, sent me his latest tattoo.

I met John initially at the 3rd Avenue Festival in Bay Ridge, back in the earlier days of the blog, where he displayed a leg piece in progress here.

He later had the piece finished and we featured it, in all its glory, here. In addition, he sent me photos of his other three tattoos here.

But here is something new from John, who I haven't seen in a while. He explained this new tattoo via e-mail:

[It] says "Solo Dio Puo Giudicarmi" ... which means [in Italian] "Only God Can Judge Me"... I got the tattoo for religious reasons and for another one ... nowadays people give a shit too much about what other people think and try to conform to be like everyone else just to blend in. [The tattoo] is a reminder to me and to all that read it, regardless of belief: just be who you are. Because, in the end, it does not matter what anyone else think of you, but you.

Thanks again to John for sending this my way! We always appreciate return visits from previous Tattoosday subjects!

Navbar Blog Fleksible

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