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  • Awang Satyana: publish or perish (5) (last post)

    (one of the field notes, private collection)   Dear friends, Do you know what makes a good writer? One of them is they can always turn every drop of their sweat in to a story to tell. And this is one of them … (originally posted on Awang Satyana’s FB wall, on 26-27th July 2014)…

  • Awang Satyana: Publish or Perish (4)

    To find yourself in a silent room with full of people waiting to hear what you have to say, must be very intriguing. You might want to be at the front row to hear what this guy have to say. You don’t want to miss a thing. And this is his story … (originally posted on…

  • Awang Satyana: Publish or Perish (3)

    (stack of course material, private collection) Lecturing in a short course is another way to share your knowledge to wider audience with specific needs. I’ve doing this but it’s nothing, really, compared to his list. and here’s his story … (originally posted on Awang Satyana’s Facebook wall, on 26-27th July 2014) ———— MENGAJAR KURSUS Itu barisan…

  • Rain water collection system: Blue Mountain National Park 

    Dear friends, I posted another article about rain water harvesting at derwinirawan.wordpress.com. It’s about rain water collection system in Blue Mountain National Park, Australia. Happy reading. Cheers, Erwin 

  • Awang Satyana: Publish or Perish (2)

    (cover of a slide, presented at SD Regina Pacis, 2003, private collection) I am a lecturer, and try to devote my life to that so called profession, but I am still want to be a teacher. Kata orang “bisa jadi pengajar belum tentu bisa jadi guru”. Pak Awang Satyana, in my point of view, has…

  • Awang Satyana: Publish or Perish (1)

    (image: a snapshot of a paper by Awang Satyana, private collection)   It’s all about digital foot print. Nowadays scientists are valued from their digital foot print. It’s not real until you make it online. Web crawlers like Google (google.com or scholar.google.com) has their own methodology to identify new scientific entries and add them to their…

  • Awang Satyana: Books, the world he can’t live without

    (Image: stack of published paper, private collection) Dear friends, Selamat berlibur Lebaran. Mohon maaf lahir dan batin. Di tengah kehikmatan Idul Fitri tahun ini, saya coba merenung. Di usia saya yang menjelang 40 tahun, saya sudah berbuat apa. Post di wall Facebook Awang Satyana, membuat saya merenung lebih keras, sudah menghasilkan apa saya ini. Berikut…

  • Tribute to Awang Satyana

    Hopefully, Next week I will finish and post a tribute to Awang Satyana, one of the prominent Indonesian geologist. The post will verbatimly linked to his post at his Facebook Wall. There will be three posts: Books: the world he can’t live without Publish or perish: more than 20 years of writing history The geology…

  • How to build a geoscience presentation (part 1)

      (image from: www.imdb.com) Geoscience has been placed as a rocket science, due to its complexity. The audience is considered to be very specific. I mad these slides for my undergrad (and also my master students) in Bahasa Indonesia. It contains a few notes on how to make a worthy geoscience presentation. I made it with LaTeX by…

  • Minimal LaTeX Packages

    (image from: CTAN.org) Dear friends, I’ve been using LaTeX (with TeX Studio) for about two years now. I use it mostly for long-formatted document. And by long, I mean more than five pages with several headings and subheadings. More light editing or letter, I use LibreOffice. As a typesetter (not a word processor), most begineer will bump…